IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Piasa
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1989IL027119
  • User Pedon ID: 1989IL027119
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 89IL027119
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 22151
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 38.7311444
  • Std. Longitude: -89.5589528
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 3N
  • Range: 4W
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: 1200 feet north and 800 feet west of southeast corner
  • Location Description: St. Rose Township
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL027—Clinton
  • MLRA: 114—Southern Illinois and Indiana Thin Loess and Till Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL027—Clinton County, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: G. Ward Lenz
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Mollic Natraqualfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 119
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Piasa
  • PSC - 30 to 80 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/2/2008
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Piasa
  • Classificaton Date - 1/1/1988
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Peoria loess and/or Roxana loess and/or Illinoian till
  • Landscape: upland
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/1/1988 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    natric

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    30 - 79

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    albic horizon

    natric horizon

    0—30

    23—30

    30—79

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    Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    1

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    152.7

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 0.6 fine roots between peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL34264
    E—23 to 30 centimeters (9.1 to 11.8 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) silt loam; moderate coarse platy parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.6 fine roots between peds; faint dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, and light gray (10YR 7/2), dry, clay films on all faces of peds and ; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL34265. continuous - phpvsfiid 428318; continuous - phpvsfiid 428318
    Btg1—30 to 53 centimeters (11.8 to 20.9 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) silty clay loam; 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine prominent mottles; moderate fine prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.6 fine roots between peds; faint dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL34266. continuous - phpvsfiid 428321; continuous - phpvsfiid 428321
    Btg2—53 to 79 centimeters (20.9 to 31.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) silty clay loam; 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine prominent mottles; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.6 fine roots between peds; faint dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium prominent iron-manganese concretions in matrix; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL34267. continuous - phpvsfiid 428322; continuous - phpvsfiid 428322
    BCg—79 to 104 centimeters (31.1 to 40.9 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) silty clay loam; 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine prominent mottles; weak coarse prismatic structure; firm; 0.6 fine roots between peds; faint dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; medium prominent iron-manganese concretions in matrix and 10 percent fine prominent iron-manganese concretions in matrix; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL34268. continuous - phpvsfiid 428317; continuous - phpvsfiid 428317
    Cg—104 to 152 centimeters (40.9 to 59.8 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) silty clay loam; 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) medium prominent mottles; structureless massive; friable; distinct dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, and light gray (10YR 7/2), dry, clay films on all faces of peds; medium prominent iron-manganese concretions in matrix and 25 percent fine prominent iron-manganese concretions in matrix; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL34269. patchy - phpvsfiid 428320; patchy - phpvsfiid 428320