IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Blake
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1977IL157007
  • User Pedon ID: 1977IL157007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 77IL157007
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 20884
  • 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: 37.9764315
  • Std. Longitude: -89.9824238
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 6S
  • Range: 8W
  • Section: 28
  • PLSS Details: 908 feet north and 578 feet west of southeast corner
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL157—Randolph
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL157—Randolph County, Illinois
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37089-H8—Kaskaskia, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: CCM, GM, MEL
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, calcareous, mesic Aquic Udifluvents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Blake
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/10/2009
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tice
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1977
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • 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 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; massive; friable; fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL25180
    A1—10 to 41 centimeters (3.9 to 16.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL25180
    B2—41 to 89 centimeters (16.1 to 35.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay loam; 5 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) medium distinct and 5 percent brown (10YR 4/3) medium distinct mottles; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL25181, IL25182. Horizon split for sampling: IL25181 41 to 64 cm, IL25182 64 to 89 cm.
    C1—89 to 107 centimeters (35.0 to 42.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) stratified stratified silty clay loam to silt loam; 5 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) medium distinct and 5 percent brown (10YR 4/3) medium distinct mottles; massive; friable; fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL25183
    C2—107 to 119 centimeters (42.1 to 46.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silty clay loam; 15 percent reddish brown (5YR 5/4) medium distinct and 15 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) medium distinct mottles; massive; firm; fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL25184
    C3—119 to 160 centimeters (46.9 to 63.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) stratified stratified silt loam; 10 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) medium distinct mottles; massive; friable; fragments; strong effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8.