IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bluford
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1977IL065010
  • User Pedon ID: 1977IL065010
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 77IL065010
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 20866
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • 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: 38.0348759
  • Std. Longitude: -88.5899685
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 6S
  • Range: 6E
  • Section: 6
  • PLSS Details: 1420 feet east and 1100 feet south of the northwest corner
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL065—Hamilton
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL065—Hamilton County, Illinois
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38088-A5—McLeansboro, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Aeric Fragic Epiaqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 10
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bluford
  • PSC - 41 to 91 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/10/2009
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bluford
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1977
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1977 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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) silt loam; weak medium granular structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL24687
    B1—25 to 41 centimeters (9.8 to 16.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) silt loam; 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) medium faint mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL24688
    B21t—41 to 64 centimeters (16.1 to 25.2 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) silt loam; 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) medium faint mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 vesicular pores; clay films on all faces of peds and 50 percent light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL24689. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 465233; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 465233
    B22t—64 to 86 centimeters (25.2 to 33.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silty clay loam; 10 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) medium faint and 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) fine faint mottles; weak medium prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 25 percent silt coats on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL24690. continuous - phpvsfiid 465235; continuous - phpvsfiid 465235
    B23t—86 to 122 centimeters (33.9 to 48.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silty clay loam; 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) medium faint mottles; weak medium prismatic, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; gradual boundary. Lab sample # IL24691. continuous - phpvsfiid 465237; continuous - phpvsfiid 465237
    IIB3—122 to 165 centimeters (48.0 to 65.0 inches); variegated light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and pale brown (10YR 6/3) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; weak medium prismatic structure; firm; clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3. Lab sample # IL24692. patchy - phpvsfiid 465238; patchy - phpvsfiid 465238