IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Elco
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2011IL167277
  • User Pedon ID: 2011IL167277
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N7652
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 73023
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 39.7185528
  • Std. Longitude: -89.6069861
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15N
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 25
  • PLSS Details: MLRA 108B
  • Location Description: Located near Lincoln Land Community College in a Fayette (280C2) map unit near an Elco map unit
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL167—Sangamon
  • MLRA: 108—Illinois and Iowa Deep Loess and Drift
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL167—Sangamon County, Illinois
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39089-F5—New City, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Rick Francen
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Oxyaquic 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 - Elco
  • Classificaton Date - 6/13/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Elco
  • Classificaton Date - 1/11/2012
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess over glacial drift that contains a strongly developed paleosol
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: interfluve
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • 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

    8

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    120

    890

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    170

    11

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 10.0 very fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; abrupt smooth boundary.
    AE—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; weak thin platy structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; clear wavy boundary.
    Bt1—20 to 48 centimeters (7.9 to 18.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.8 very fine roots; 35 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4; gradual wavy boundary. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1144582; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1144582
    Bt2—48 to 96 centimeters (18.9 to 37.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.8 very fine roots; 5 percent distinct brown (10YR 5/3) silt coats on all faces of peds and 75 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine distinct irregular black (7.5YR 2.5/1) manganese masses with clear boundaries throughout; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4; clear wavy boundary. continuous - phpvsfiid 1144584; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1144583; continuous - phpvsfiid 1144584; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1144583
    2Bt—96 to 130 centimeters (37.8 to 51.2 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) silty clay; moderate medium prismatic structure; very firm; 0.8 very fine roots; 35 percent distinct gray (2.5Y 5/1) clay films on all faces of peds and 75 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent medium distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 10 percent medium prominent irregular black (7.5YR 2.5/1) manganese masses with diffuse boundaries throughout; 2 percent by volume nonflat rounded strongly coherent cemented ? to 8-? millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.2. two chroma iron depletions occur above 190 cm, not enough to describe; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1144586; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1144586
    2Btg—130 to 203 centimeters (51.2 to 79.9 inches); silty clay; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; few (3.0) very fine roots between peds; 27 percent distinct clay films on horizontal faces of peds; 20 percent medium distinct irregular moderately coherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses with diffuse boundaries on ped faces and pores; 2 percent by volume nonflat rounded strongly coherent cemented ? to 8-? millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.2. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1144587; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1144587