IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Downs
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1930IL057001
  • User Pedon ID: 1930IL057001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 30IL057001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 20377
  • 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: 40.2195926
  • Std. Longitude: -90.3919985
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 3N
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 22
  • Location Description: On Rt. 24, 100 FT W of road corner
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL057—Fulton
  • MLRA: 115—Central Mississippi Valley Wooded Slopes
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL057—Fulton County, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JBF
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aquic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Downs
  • PSC - 33 to 83 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/22/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Clinton
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1930
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1930 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • 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
  • Yield Study ID -
    • 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
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    A1—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; ; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0. Lab sample # IL13839
    A2—15 to 25 centimeters (5.9 to 9.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; moderate medium platy, and moderate coarse platy structure; ; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3. Lab sample # IL13840
    B1—25 to 33 centimeters (9.8 to 13.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; prominent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8. Lab sample # IL13841
    B21—33 to 46 centimeters (13.0 to 18.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silty clay loam; strong medium subangular blocky, and strong fine subangular blocky structure; distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5. Lab sample # IL13842
    B22—46 to 81 centimeters (18.1 to 31.9 inches); 40 percent brown (10YR 4/3) and 30 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silty clay loam; 30 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; faint light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5. Lab sample # IL13843
    B3—81 to 160 centimeters (31.9 to 63.0 inches); 40 percent brown (10YR 5/3) and 30 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; 5 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) and 25 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) mottles; moderate coarse subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6. Lab sample # IL13844, IL13846, IL13845. Horizon split for sampling: IL13844 81 to 107 cm, IL13845 107 to 130 cm, IL13846 130 to 160 cm.
    C1—160 to 249 centimeters (63.0 to 98.0 inches); 60 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; 10 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and 30 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) mottles; massive; fragments. Lab sample # IL13847, IL13848, IL13849, IL13850. Horizon split for sampling: IL13847 160 to 185 cm, IL13848 185 to 208 cm, IL13849 208 to 234 cm, IL13850 234 to 249 cm.