IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Schuline
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2008IL157002
  • User Pedon ID: S2008IL157002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0524
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24045
  • Print Date: 4/28/2025

    • 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: 38.1933327
  • Std. Longitude: -89.7713852
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 14S
  • Range: 6W
  • Section: 9
  • Map Unit: 823B—Schuline silt loam, 1 to 5 percent slopes
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL157—Randolph
  • MLRA: 114—Southern Illinois and Indiana Thin Loess and Till Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL157—Randolph County, Illinois
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38089-B7—Baldwin, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Bryan Fitch, Erik Gerhard, Sam Indorante, Dwayne Williams
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, calcareous, mesic Alfic Udarents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Schuline
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, calcareous, mesic Alfic Udarents
  • Classificaton Date - 5/19/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Anthropogenic Feature: reclaimed land on surface mine
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/19/2008 (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
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

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

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    Site Soil Temperature
    Site Obs. Date Depth Sensor Kind Temperature
    cm C

    5/19/2008

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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

    2

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    140

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed silt loam; 25 percent clay; mottles; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; ; ; ; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, phenol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 08N03388; observed in pit, small
    AC—20 to 40 centimeters (7.9 to 15.7 inches); 60 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face and 40 percent brown (10YR 5/3) broken face silty clay loam; 34 percent clay; mottles; moderate medium platy parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; ; ; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, phenol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 08N03389; observed in pit, small
    C1—40 to 85 centimeters (15.7 to 33.5 inches); variegated 20 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) broken face and 5 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face and 8 percent very dark brown (10YR 2/2) broken face and 10 percent brown (10YR 4/3) broken face silty clay loam; 34 percent clay; mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 2.0 very fine roots throughout; ; 3 percent medium strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; ; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, phenol red; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N03390; observed in pit, small
    C2—85 to 119 centimeters (33.5 to 46.9 inches); variegated gray (10YR 6/1) broken face and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face and brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face silty clay loam; 38 percent clay; mottles; weak thick platy, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 2.0 very fine roots throughout; ; 3 percent medium strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; ; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, phenol red; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N03391; observed in pit, small
    C3—119 to 160 centimeters (46.9 to 63.0 inches); variegated yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face and 20 percent gray (10YR 6/1) broken face very cobbly clay loam; 38 percent clay; mottles; massive; very firm; ; ; ; 1 percent by volume nonflat well rounded indurated 20-50-76 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 1 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 20-50-76 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments and 2 percent by volume nonflat well rounded indurated 2-10-20 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 2 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-10-20 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume nonflat angular very strongly coherent cemented 75-100-250 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, phenol red; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N03392; observed in pit, small
    C4—160 to 203 centimeters (63.0 to 79.9 inches); variegated yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face and bluish gray (10B 6/1) broken face and 10B 5/4 (10B 5/4) broken face silty clay; 50 percent clay; mottles; massive; very firm; ; ; ; fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, phenol red. Lab sample # 08N03393; observed in pit, small