IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hosmer
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1938IL163003
  • User Pedon ID: 1938IL163003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 38IL163003
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 20403
  • Print Date: 5/30/2024

    • 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: 38.6418827
  • Std. Longitude: -89.9174781
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2N
  • Range: 7W
  • Section: 7
  • Location Description: 100 feet S of section line
  • 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, active, mesic Oxyaquic Fragiudalfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hosmer
  • PSC - 41 to 91 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/22/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hosmer
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/1938
  • 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: 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 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; fragments. Lab sample # IL15780
    A2—10 to 28 centimeters (3.9 to 11.0 inches); variegated brown (10YR 5/3) and pale brown (10YR 6/3) silt loam; weak medium platy structure; fragments. Lab sample # IL15781
    B1—28 to 41 centimeters (11.0 to 16.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; strong coarse granular, and strong fine angular blocky structure; fragments. Lab sample # IL15782
    B2—41 to 66 centimeters (16.1 to 26.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; strong fine subangular blocky structure; 10 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # IL15783, IL15786, IL15784, IL15785. Horizon split for sampling: IL15783 41 to 46 cm, IL15784 46 to 51 cm, IL15785 51 to 58 cm, IL15786 58 to 66 cm.
    A'2—66 to 74 centimeters (26.0 to 29.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) silty clay loam; pale brown (10YR 6/3) and black (10YR 2/1) mottles; strong medium subangular blocky, and strong medium prismatic structure; brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and prominent pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # IL15787
    B'2—74 to 91 centimeters (29.1 to 35.8 inches); variegated brown (7.5YR 4/4) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; strong medium angular blocky structure; reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, silt coats on tops of soil columns; fragments. Lab sample # IL15788, IL15789. Horizon split for sampling: IL15788 74 to 84 cm, IL15789 84 to 91 cm.
    B'31—91 to 112 centimeters (35.8 to 44.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; pale brown (10YR 6/3) and black (10YR 2/1) mottles; moderate coarse angular blocky structure; prominent reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # IL15790
    B'32—112 to 127 centimeters (44.1 to 50.0 inches); variegated pale brown (10YR 6/3) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and black (10YR 2/1) silt loam; weak coarse angular blocky structure; reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # IL15791
    C—127 to 127 centimeters (50.0 to 50.0 inches); variegated light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) silt loam; massive; fragments. Lab sample # IL15792