IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Alford
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1938IL163002
  • User Pedon ID: 1938IL163002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 38IL163002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 20402
  • Print Date: 5/31/2024

    • 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: 38.6345355
  • Std. Longitude: -90.0020225
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2N
  • Range: 8W
  • Section: 9
  • Location Description: In Hollywood Heights, 1 to 2 rods N of blacktop
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL163—St. Clair
  • MLRA: 115—Central Mississippi Valley Wooded Slopes
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL163—St. Clair County, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JBF
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Alford
  • PSC - 51 to 101 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/22/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Alford
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/1938
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/1/1938 (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 grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL15767
    A2—15 to 38 centimeters (5.9 to 15.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silt loam; weak fine platy structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL15768, IL15769. Horizon split for sampling: IL15768 15 to 30 cm, IL15769 30 to 38 cm.
    B1—38 to 51 centimeters (15.0 to 20.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL15770, IL15771. Horizon split for sampling: IL15770 38 to 43 cm, IL15771 43 to 51 cm.
    B21—51 to 66 centimeters (20.1 to 26.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; strong fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 6.0 roots; 6.0 pores; brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL15772, IL15773. Horizon split for sampling: IL15772 51 to 58 cm, IL15773 58 to 66 cm.; continuous - phpvsfiid 429028; continuous - phpvsfiid 429028
    B22—66 to 89 centimeters (26.0 to 35.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; strong medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 6.0 roots; 6.0 pores; dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent iron-manganese concretions; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL15774, IL15775. Horizon split for sampling: IL15774 66 to 76 cm, IL15775 76 to 89 cm.; continuous - phpvsfiid 429031; continuous - phpvsfiid 429031
    B31—89 to 114 centimeters (35.0 to 44.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 6.0 roots; 6.0 pores; brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent iron-manganese concretions; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL15776, IL15777. Horizon split for sampling: IL15776 89 to 102 cm, IL15777 102 to 114 cm.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 429027; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 429027
    B32—114 to 152 centimeters (44.9 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) medium prominent and 10 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) coarse distinct mottles; weak coarse subangular blocky, and weak coarse angular blocky structure; firm; 6.0 roots; 6.0 pores; 10 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 25 percent iron-manganese concretions; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL15778, IL15779. Horizon split for sampling: IL15778 114 to 127 cm, IL15779 127 to 152 cm.