IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tamalco
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1989IL025051
  • User Pedon ID: 89IL025051
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1989IL025051
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 90P0011
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61944
  • 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: 38.7508316
  • Std. Longitude: -88.3116684
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 4N
  • Range: 8E
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: Approximately 50 feet E and 1300 feet N of the SW corner
  • Location Description: Pixley Twp.
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL025—Clay
  • MLRA: 113—Central Claypan Areas

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Natrudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 51
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Tamalco
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tamalco
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic, mesic Typic Natrudalf
  • 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

  • Landscape: upland
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    TRIFO

    Trifolium

    clover

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

    ochric epipedon

    albic horizon

    argillic horizon

    natric horizon

    0—15

    15—23

    23—41

    41—140

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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

    4

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 2.5 fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 90P00085. has some mixing of (10YR 5/3) silt loam from below; common fine roots
    E—15 to 23 centimeters (5.9 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silt loam; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; moderate medium platy structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 1 percent fine irregular iron-manganese masses; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear boundary. Lab sample # 90P00086. some mixing of (10YR 3/3) from above; few fine soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; few fine roots; few fine distinct 10YR56 mottles
    Bt1—23 to 41 centimeters (9.1 to 16.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) fine faint and 1 percent dark red (2.5YR 3/6) fine prominent mottles; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 15 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine irregular iron-manganese masses; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; clear boundary. Lab sample # 90P00087. few fine soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; few clay films surface features on faces of peds; few fine roots; few fine faint 7.5YR58 mottles; few fine prominent 2.5YR36 mottles
    Bt2—41 to 53 centimeters (16.1 to 20.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; 11 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) medium distinct mottles; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 37 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine irregular iron-manganese masses; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; clear boundary. Lab sample # 90P00088. few fine soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; common clay films surface features on faces of peds; few fine roots; common medium distinct 10YR62 mottles
    Bt3—53 to 74 centimeters (20.9 to 29.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; 1 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) fine distinct and 11 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 2 percent distinct light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, coats on faces of peds and 37 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine irregular iron-manganese masses; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; clear boundary. Lab sample # 90P00089. slight sand increase noted; few fine soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; common clay films surface features on faces of peds; very few coats surface features on faces of peds; few fine roots; few fine distinct 10YR62 mottles; common fine distinct 10YR56 mottles
    2Bt4—74 to 99 centimeters (29.1 to 39.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loam; 11 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine distinct and 11 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) fine distinct mottles; moderate medium prismatic structure; friable; 2 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 11 percent fine irregular iron-manganese masses; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear boundary. Lab sample # 90P00090. common fine soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; very few clay films surface features on faces of peds; common fine distinct 10YR56 mottles; common fine distinct 10YR62 mottles
    2Bt5—99 to 140 centimeters (39.0 to 55.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) loam; 1 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) fine distinct mottles; weak coarse prismatic structure; friable; 2 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 11 percent fine irregular iron-manganese masses; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear boundary. Lab sample # 90P00091. common fine soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; very few clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; few fine distinct 10YR63 mottles
    2BC—140 to 152 centimeters (55.1 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loam; 1 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) fine distinct mottles; massive; friable; 2 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 1 percent medium irregular iron-manganese masses and 11 percent fine irregular iron-manganese masses; 3 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 90P00092. common fine soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; few medium soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; very few clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; few fine distinct 10YR63 mottles