IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Marseilles
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1978IL095076
  • User Pedon ID: 1978IL095076
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 78IL095076
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 21035
  • Print Date: 6/2/2024

    • 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: 40.7740231
  • Std. Longitude: -89.9859971
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9N
  • Range: 4E
  • Section: 12
  • PLSS Details: 1165 feet N & 200 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: 40089-G8—Elmwood, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: MK
  • 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 #: 76
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Marseilles
  • PSC - 13 to 63 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: drainageway, hillslope
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • 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 Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—13

    13—48

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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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    197

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    A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; silt loam; moderate fine angular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL25795
    A2—5 to 13 centimeters (2.0 to 5.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), very pale brown (10YR 7/4), dry; silt loam; weak thin platy parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; friable; distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, organoargillans on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL25796. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 481211; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 481211
    B21t—13 to 23 centimeters (5.1 to 9.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine faint mottles; moderate fine angular blocky structure; friable; distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL25797. patchy - phpvsfiid 481213; patchy - phpvsfiid 481213
    B22t—23 to 48 centimeters (9.1 to 18.9 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) silt loam; 1 percent gray (10YR 6/1) fine faint mottles; moderate fine angular blocky structure; firm; faint light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL25798. patchy - phpvsfiid 481212; patchy - phpvsfiid 481212
    B3—48 to 89 centimeters (18.9 to 35.0 inches); pale olive (5Y 6/4) silt loam; weak thick platy parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; firm; distinct light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent by volume angular strongly coherent cemented shale, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL25799. patchy - phpvsfiid 481210; patchy - phpvsfiid 481210
    C—89 to 152 centimeters (35.0 to 59.8 inches); pale olive (5Y 6/3) silt loam; structureless massive, and weak thick platy; extremely firm; 25 percent by volume angular strongly coherent cemented shale, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3. Lab sample # IL25800