IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Marseilles
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1978IL095057
  • User Pedon ID: 1978IL095057
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 78IL095057
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 21025
  • 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: 41.0378482
  • Std. Longitude: -89.9952811
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12N
  • Range: 4E
  • Section: 12
  • PLSS Details: 1848 feet N & 2500 feet W of the SE corner
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL095—Knox
  • MLRA: 115—Central Mississippi Valley Wooded Slopes
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL095—Knox County, Illinois
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41089-A8—Lafayette, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: MB
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 57
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Marseilles
  • PSC - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/4/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Shale soils
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1978
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Peoria loess over shale residuum over noncalcareous Pennsylvania shale
  • Landform: hillslope, drainageway
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent shale, unspecified at 104cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1978 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    strongly coherent

    104 - 152

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—16

    18—56

    104—152

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    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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    30

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    217

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    A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; silt loam; weak thick platy structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots between peds; 1 percent by volume angular strongly coherent cemented mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL25733
    A12—8 to 18 centimeters (3.1 to 7.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; silt loam; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine faint mottles; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots between peds; faint very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, organoargillans on all faces of peds; 1 percent by volume rounded strongly coherent cemented dolomite (dolostone) fragments and 3 percent by volume angular strongly coherent cemented mixed fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL25734. patchy - phpvsfiid 481226; patchy - phpvsfiid 481226
    B21t—18 to 41 centimeters (7.1 to 16.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay loam; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine faint mottles; strong very fine angular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots between peds; distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume angular strongly coherent cemented mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume rounded strongly coherent cemented dolomite (dolostone) fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL25735. patchy - phpvsfiid 481224; patchy - phpvsfiid 481224
    B22t—41 to 56 centimeters (16.1 to 22.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay loam; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) fine faint and 1 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine faint mottles; strong fine angular blocky structure; friable; 0.6 very fine roots between peds; faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent iron-manganese concretions in matrix; 1 percent by volume angular strongly coherent cemented mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume rounded strongly coherent cemented shale, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume rounded strongly coherent cemented dolomite (dolostone) fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL25736. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 481223; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 481223
    B3—56 to 69 centimeters (22.0 to 27.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loam; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) fine faint and 10 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) medium distinct mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent manganese coatings in matrix; 1 percent by volume angular strongly coherent cemented mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume rounded strongly coherent cemented shale, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume rounded strongly coherent cemented dolomite (dolostone) fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL25737. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 481225; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 481225
    C—69 to 104 centimeters (27.2 to 40.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loam; 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) medium distinct and 10 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) medium distinct mottles; moderate thick platy structure; very firm; 10 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, and brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 1 percent by volume angular strongly coherent cemented mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume rounded strongly coherent cemented shale, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume rounded moderately coherent cemented sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL25738
    R—104 to 152 centimeters (40.9 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) bedrock; angular strongly coherent cemented shale, unspecified fragments and angular moderately coherent cemented sandstone, unspecified fragments.