IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Alford
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1971IL163002
  • User Pedon ID: 1971IL163002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 71IL163002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 20729
  • 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: 38.4047667
  • Std. Longitude: -89.9713879
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1S
  • Range: 8W
  • Section: 34
  • PLSS Details: Follow farm lane north past house then east to ridge top, 30 feet south of lane
  • 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-D8—Freeburg, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: DLW, GTH, BM
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Alford
  • PSC - 33 to 83 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/10/2009
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Alford
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1971
  • 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: 10/1/1971 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; weak medium platy, and moderate fine granular structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL23500
    B1—25 to 33 centimeters (9.8 to 13.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; 25 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) medium distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate very fine angular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL23501
    B21t—33 to 43 centimeters (13.0 to 16.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; strong fine subangular blocky structure; friable; brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL23502. continuous - phpvsfiid 464625; continuous - phpvsfiid 464625
    B22t—43 to 76 centimeters (16.9 to 29.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate fine prismatic, and strong medium subangular blocky structure; firm; dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL23503. continuous - phpvsfiid 464626; continuous - phpvsfiid 464626
    B23t—76 to 99 centimeters (29.9 to 39.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL23504. continuous - phpvsfiid 464627; continuous - phpvsfiid 464627
    B3—99 to 157 centimeters (39.0 to 61.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; 10 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) medium faint mottles; weak medium prismatic structure; firm; dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL23505. patchy - phpvsfiid 464628; patchy - phpvsfiid 464628
    C—157 to 236 centimeters (61.8 to 92.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; massive; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8. Lab sample # IL23506