IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Frondorf
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1989IL025052
  • User Pedon ID: 89IL025052
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 90P0013
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61946
  • 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: 38.6369934
  • Std. Longitude: -88.5283813
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2N
  • Range: 6E
  • Section: 4
  • PLSS Details: Approximately 525 feet W and 600 feet N of the SE corner
  • Location Description: South Harter Twp.
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL025—Clay
  • MLRA: 113—Central Claypan Areas

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 52
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Frondorf
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Unnamed
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1989
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1989 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • 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

    albic horizon

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—5

    5—20

    20—76

    76—152

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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

    28

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    270

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 2.5 fine roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, hellige-truog; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 90P00098. common fine roots
    E—5 to 20 centimeters (2.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) loam; weak medium prismatic structure; friable; 2.5 fine roots; 1 percent fine irregular iron-manganese masses; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, hellige-truog; clear boundary. Lab sample # 90P00099. 3% sandstone fragments; few fine soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; common fine roots
    Bt1—20 to 48 centimeters (7.9 to 18.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; friable; 37 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine irregular iron-manganese masses; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, hellige-truog; clear boundary. Lab sample # 90P00100. 5% sandstone fragments; few fine soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; common clay films surface features on faces of peds
    Bt2—48 to 61 centimeters (18.9 to 24.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; friable; 55 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine irregular iron-manganese masses; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, hellige-truog; clear boundary. Lab sample # 90P00101. 10% sandstone fragments; few fine soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; many clay films surface features on faces of peds
    Bt3—61 to 76 centimeters (24.0 to 29.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) channery loam; 1 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) fine faint mottles; weak coarse prismatic structure; friable; 15 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds and 37 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine irregular iron-manganese masses; 25 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P00102. few fine soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; common clay films surface features on faces of peds; few clay films surface features on faces of peds; few fine faint 10YR63 mottles
    Cr—76 to 152 centimeters (29.9 to 59.8 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) weathered bedrock; massive; 37 percent prominent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films; fragments. common clay films surface features