IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lenzburg
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2008IL163001
  • User Pedon ID: S2008IL163001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0526
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24047
  • Print Date: 4/29/2025

    • 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: 38.2386093
  • Std. Longitude: -89.7886124
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 13S
  • Range: 6W
  • Section: 29
  • Map Unit: 821G—Morristown very stony silty clay loam, 35 to 70 percent slopes
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL163—St. Clair
  • MLRA: 114—Southern Illinois and Indiana Thin Loess and Till Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL163—St. Clair County, Illinois
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38089-B7—Baldwin, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jon Bathgate, Erik Gerhard, Sam Indorante, Dwayne Williams
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, calcareous, mesic Haplic Udarents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Lenzburg
  • Classificaton Date - 7/6/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Morristown
  • Classificaton Date - 5/5/2008
  • 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: shoulder
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/5/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous 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
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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

    5/5/2008

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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

    49

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    Ap—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) crushed gravelly silt loam; 23 percent clay; mottles; weak fine granular structure; friable; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout; ; ; ; 1 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 76-100-250 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments and 1 percent by volume nonflat well rounded indurated 76-100-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 8 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-15-76 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat well rounded indurated 2-15-76 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, phenol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 08N03407; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A—8 to 13 centimeters (3.1 to 5.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face gravelly silt loam; 20 percent clay; mottles; weak fine platy structure; friable; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout; ; ; ; 1 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 76-100-250 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments and 1 percent by volume nonflat well rounded indurated 76-100-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 8 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-15-76 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat well rounded indurated 2-15-76 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, phenol red; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 08N03408; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C1—13 to 43 centimeters (5.1 to 16.9 inches); light reddish brown (2.5YR 6/4) broken face and reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) broken face and gray (10YR 5/1) broken face gravelly silt loam; 29 percent clay; mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; ; ; ; 1 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 76-100-250 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments and 1 percent by volume nonflat well rounded indurated 76-100-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 8 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-15-76 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat well rounded indurated 2-15-76 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, phenol red; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N03409; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C2—43 to 83 centimeters (16.9 to 32.7 inches); variegated gray (10YR 5/1) broken face and light reddish brown (2.5YR 6/4) broken face and reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) broken face gravelly silty clay loam; 30 percent clay; mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; ; ; ; 1 percent by volume nonflat well rounded indurated 76-100-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 1 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 76-100-250 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments and 8 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-15-76 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat well rounded indurated 2-15-76 millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, phenol red; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N03410; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C3—83 to 123 centimeters (32.7 to 48.4 inches); variegated gray (10YR 5/1) broken face and light reddish brown (2.5YR 6/4) broken face and reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) broken face gravelly loam; 36 percent clay; mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; ; ; ; 1 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 76-100-250 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments and 1 percent by volume nonflat well rounded indurated 76-100-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 8 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-15-76 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat well rounded indurated 2-15-76 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, phenol red; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N03411; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C4—123 to 163 centimeters (48.4 to 64.2 inches); variegated gray (10YR 5/1) broken face and light reddish brown (2.5YR 6/4) broken face and reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) broken face gravelly clay loam; 36 percent clay; mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; ; ; ; 1 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 76-100-250 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments and 1 percent by volume nonflat well rounded indurated 76-100-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 8 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-15-76 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat well rounded indurated 2-15-76 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1, phenol red; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N03412; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C5—163 to 203 centimeters (64.2 to 79.9 inches); variegated gray (10YR 5/1) broken face and light reddish brown (2.5YR 6/4) broken face and reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) broken face gravelly clay loam; 36 percent clay; mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; ; ; ; 2 percent by volume flat angular very strongly coherent cemented 76-162-250 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume nonflat rounded very strongly coherent cemented 76-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 12 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-3-5 millimeter mixed fragments and 13 percent by volume nonflat well rounded indurated 2-3-5 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, phenol red. Lab sample # 08N03413; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small