IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Marseilles
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1978IL095075
  • User Pedon ID: 1978IL095075
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 78IL095075
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 21034
  • 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: 41.0802836
  • Std. Longitude: -90.3644712
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 13N
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: 660 feet N & 561 feet W of the SE corner
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL095—Knox
  • MLRA: 108—Illinois and Iowa Deep Loess and Drift
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL095—Knox County, Illinois
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41090-A3—Wataga, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: RDW
  • 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 #: 75
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Marseilles
  • PSC - 23 to 73 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/4/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Shale soil
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1978
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Peoria loess
  • Landform: hillslope, drainageway
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent shale and siltstone at 86cm
  • 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 - hayland
  • 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, paralithic

    bedrock, lithic

    strongly coherent

    strongly coherent

    66 - 86

    86 - 152

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    lithic contact

    0—10

    23—46

    66—86

    86—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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    233

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    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots between peds; distinct very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, organoargillans on all faces of peds; 1 percent prominent masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL25789. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 481207; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 481207
    B1—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots between peds; distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, organoargillans on all faces of peds; 1 percent prominent masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL25790. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 481205; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 481205
    B21t—23 to 33 centimeters (9.1 to 13.0 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.6 fine roots between peds; distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent prominent masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 1 percent by volume angular strongly coherent cemented shale, unspecified fragments and 1 percent by volume angular moderately coherent cemented sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL25791. patchy - phpvsfiid 481206; patchy - phpvsfiid 481206
    B22t—33 to 46 centimeters (13.0 to 18.1 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) silty clay loam; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine faint mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.6 fine roots between peds; faint dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and prominent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, organoargillans on surfaces along root channels; 1 percent prominent iron-manganese concretions in matrix; 1 percent by volume angular strongly coherent cemented shale, unspecified fragments and 1 percent by volume angular moderately coherent cemented sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL25792. patchy - phpvsfiid 481208; patchy - phpvsfiid 481209; patchy - phpvsfiid 481208; patchy - phpvsfiid 481209
    B3—46 to 61 centimeters (18.1 to 24.0 inches); variegated gray (5Y 5/1) and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silty clay loam; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) fine distinct mottles; moderate thick platy parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.6 fine roots between peds; 1 percent prominent iron-manganese concretions in matrix; 25 percent by volume angular strongly coherent cemented shale, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL25793
    Cr—61 to 86 centimeters (24.0 to 33.9 inches); variegated gray (5Y 5/1) and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silty clay loam; strong thick platy structure; very firm; 1 percent prominent iron-manganese concretions in matrix; 25 percent by volume angular strongly coherent cemented shale, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL25794
    R—86 to 152 centimeters (33.9 to 59.8 inches); gray (5Y 5/1) ; 25 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) fine distinct mottles; structureless massive; very firm; angular strongly coherent cemented siltstone, unspecified fragments and angular strongly coherent cemented shale, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.0.