IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Elsah Tax
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 93IL181046E
  • User Pedon ID: 93IL181046E
  • User Site Association ID: ECS_1_Ecological Classification System Study_CCA
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 95P0192
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 67210
  • 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: 37.5489554
  • Std. Longitude: -89.4417395
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: MLRA 115B. CCA#48. Mississippi River Alluvial Floodplain - 222Ao. NW 1/4 of Section 21, T. 11. S., R. 3. W. Dana's pedon# S93IL181004-6; Lincoln pedon# 93IL1810046; Pedon# 93IL181046.
  • State: Illinois
  • MLRA: 115B—Central Mississippi Valley Wooded Slopes, Western Part

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Don Dagnan, USFS and Dana Grantham, SCS
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Elsah Tax
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1993
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: alluvial fan
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1993 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 9
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: wind and water erosion
    • 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

    3

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    108

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    270

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3); friable; 3.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 3 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # 95P01267
    Oi—5 to 0 centimeters (2.0 to 0.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4); friable; 3.0 fine and medium roots throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P01266
    Bt1—10 to 46 centimeters (3.9 to 18.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3); weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine and medium roots throughout; faint dark brown (10YR 3/3) clay films on faces of peds and in pores and 10 percent distinct very pale brown (10YR 7/3) skeletans on vertical faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 95P01268. patchy - phpvsfiid 87219; patchy - phpvsfiid 87219
    Bt2—46 to 56 centimeters (18.1 to 22.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4); weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 medium roots throughout; 10 percent faint brown (10YR 4/3) clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 95P01269. patchy - phpvsfiid 87233; patchy - phpvsfiid 87233
    2C—56 to 102 centimeters (22.0 to 40.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4); friable; 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary.
    Cr—102 to 127 centimeters (40.2 to 50.0 inches); fragments.