IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Allison
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1963IL059001
  • User Pedon ID: S1963IL059001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1401
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 35009
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024
  • 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: 37.7991676
  • Std. Longitude: -88.0522232
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 8S
  • Range: 10E
  • Section: 25
  • PLSS Details: NE 160, SE 40, NW 10, SW 2 1/2
  • Location Description: About 300 feet south of field road, directly south of old house site, and about 480 feet west of field road along break to lower area. About 1/4 mile southeast from present bank of Wabash River and one mile west of Ohio River junction.
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL059—Gallatin
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL059—Gallatin County, Illinois
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: G.O. Walker, H.L. Wascher, D.L. Wallace, R.E. Bourland, F.N. Carroll, E. Lutz
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Cumulic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Allison
  • Classificaton Date - 6/15/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Allison
  • Classificaton Date - 10/25/1963
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Landform: valley floor
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/25/1963 (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
  • 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

    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; firm; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A10739
    A3—20 to 43 centimeters (7.9 to 16.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 21.0 roots; very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) coats; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A10740. continuous - phpvsfiid 181074; continuous - phpvsfiid 181074
    B21—43 to 69 centimeters (16.9 to 27.2 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) silty clay loam; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky, and prismatic structure; firm; very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) coats; worm casts; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A10741
    B22—69 to 89 centimeters (27.2 to 35.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) silty clay loam; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky, and prismatic structure; firm; very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) coats; worm casts; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A10742. Separated from B21 for sampling purposes.
    B23—89 to 127 centimeters (35.0 to 50.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky, and prismatic structure; firm; dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) coats; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A10743
    B24—127 to 152 centimeters (50.0 to 59.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 10 percent brown (10YR 4/3) coats; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A10744
    BC—152 to 178 centimeters (59.8 to 70.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak subangular blocky structure; firm; 10 percent brown (10YR 4/3) coats; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 40A10745