IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fishhook
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2011IL135279
  • User Pedon ID: 2011IL135279
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N7650
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 72836
  • Print Date: 4/17/2025

    • 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: 39.2230306
  • Std. Longitude: -89.2356917
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9N
  • Range: 1W
  • Section: 18
  • PLSS Details: MLRA 114B
  • Location Description: Located in Montgomery County in a Bunkum (515C2) map unit. Windmill closest to pond.
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL135—Montgomery
  • MLRA: 114—Southern Illinois and Indiana Thin Loess and Till Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL135—Montgomery County, Illinois
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39089-B2—Ramsey Lake, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Rick Francen
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aquic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Fishhook
  • Classificaton Date - 6/13/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fishhook
  • Classificaton Date - 1/11/2012
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess over underlying silty water-worked sediments (pedisediment).
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: interfluve
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/11/2012 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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

    4

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    180

    1025

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    190

    13

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); 85 percent brown (10YR 4/3) and 15 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots and 3.0 fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; clear smooth boundary.
    Bt—15 to 51 centimeters (5.9 to 20.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots; 35 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3) and grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent distinct light gray (2.5Y 7/1), dry, clay depletions on faces of peds and 1 percent fine distinct spherical black (7.5YR 2.5/1) manganese masses with sharp boundaries throughout and 10 percent medium distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2) iron depletions in matrix and 25 percent coarse distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; gradual wavy boundary. continuous - phpvsfiid 1144564; continuous - phpvsfiid 1144564
    2Btg1—51 to 84 centimeters (20.1 to 33.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.8 very fine roots; 35 percent distinct grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent spherical black (7.5YR 2.5/1) manganese masses with sharp boundaries throughout and 10 percent medium prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; gradual wavy boundary. continuous - phpvsfiid 1144565; continuous - phpvsfiid 1144565
    2Btg2—84 to 147 centimeters (33.1 to 57.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silty clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 0.8 very fine roots; 35 percent distinct dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent irregular black (7.5YR 2.5/1) manganese masses with clear boundaries throughout and 10 percent medium prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4; clear smooth boundary. continuous - phpvsfiid 1144566; continuous - phpvsfiid 1144566
    2Btg3—147 to 178 centimeters (57.9 to 70.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) silty clay; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 0.1 very fine roots; 35 percent distinct dark gray (2.5Y 4/1) clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent irregular black (7.5YR 2.5/1) manganese masses with clear boundaries throughout and 10 percent medium prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; gradual wavy boundary. continuous - phpvsfiid 1144567; continuous - phpvsfiid 1144567
    2Btg4—178 to 203 centimeters (70.1 to 79.9 inches); dark gray (2.5Y 4/1) silty clay; weak medium prismatic structure; very firm; 0.1 very fine roots; 35 percent distinct dark gray (2.5Y 4/1) clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent irregular black (7.5YR 2.5/1) manganese masses with diffuse boundaries throughout and 10 percent medium prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1144568; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1144568