IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Frondorf
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1989IL025040
  • User Pedon ID: 89IL025040
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 90P0012
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61945
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 38.6644440
  • Std. Longitude: -88.3597260
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 3N
  • Range: 8E
  • Section: 30
  • PLSS Details: Approximately 1115 feet N and 1075 feet E of the SW corner
  • Location Description: N. Clay City Twp.
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL025—Clay
  • MLRA: 113—Central Claypan Areas

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 40
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Frondorf
  • Classificaton Date - 6/15/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Frondorf
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Ultic Hapludalf
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1989
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1989 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—15

    15—71

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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

    10

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; weak very fine and fine granular structure; friable; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 37 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) organic stains on faces of peds; 1 percent fine and medium spherical iron-manganese masses; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, hellige-truog; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 90P00093. mixed with pockets of (10YR 5/6) subsurface material; few fine and medium soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; common organic coats surface features on faces of peds; common very fine and fine roots
    Bt1—15 to 33 centimeters (5.9 to 13.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 15 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, organic stains on faces of peds and 15 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine and medium spherical iron-manganese masses; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, hellige-truog; clear boundary. Lab sample # 90P00094. (10YR 3/2) coatings are in the upper 2 inches of the horizon; few fine and medium soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; few organic coats surface features on faces of peds; few clay films surface features on faces of peds; common very fine and fine roots
    Bt2—33 to 48 centimeters (13.0 to 18.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; 11 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) medium prominent mottles; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; firm; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 2 percent distinct white (10YR 8/1), moist, coats on faces of peds and 37 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 11 percent medium spherical iron-manganese masses and 11 percent medium irregular iron-manganese masses; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, hellige-truog; clear boundary. Lab sample # 90P00095. silt coating is recorded as a dry color; common medium soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; common medium soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; very few coats surface features on faces of peds; common clay films surface features on faces of peds; common very fine and fine roots; common medium prominent 2.5YR46 mottles
    Bt3—48 to 71 centimeters (18.9 to 28.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay loam; 11 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) medium prominent mottles; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 37 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds and 55 percent distinct white (10YR 8/1), moist, coats on faces of peds; 11 percent medium irregular iron-manganese masses; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, hellige-truog; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 90P00096. 2% sandstone fragments; silt coating is recorded as a dry color; common medium soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; many coats surface features on faces of peds; common clay films surface features on faces of peds; few very fine and fine roots; common medium prominent 7.5YR46 mottles
    BC—71 to 102 centimeters (28.0 to 40.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) gravelly clay loam; 1 percent gray (10YR 6/1) fine prominent mottles; weak medium and coarse angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots; 37 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 30 percent medium irregular iron-manganese masses; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; clear boundary. Lab sample # 90P00097. 15% sandstone fragments; many medium soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; common clay films surface features on faces of peds; few very fine roots; few fine prominent 10YR61 mottles
    Cr—102 to 152 centimeters (40.2 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and gray (10YR 6/1); massive; 15 percent distinct dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films on rock fragments; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog. sandstone and siltstone; weathered sandstone; few clay films surface features on rock fragments