IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wellston
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1980IL145032
  • User Pedon ID: 1980IL145032
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 80IL145032
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 21304
  • 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: 38.0250755
  • Std. Longitude: -89.5043170
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 6S
  • Range: 4W
  • Section: 11
  • PLSS Details: 750 feet west and 740 feet south of northeast corner
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL145—Perry
  • MLRA: 114—Southern Illinois and Indiana Thin Loess and Till Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL145—Perry County, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: DRG, SJI
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 32
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wellston
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/8/2009
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Beasley
  • Classificaton Date - 1/1/1980
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: glacial drift with paleosol over shale residuum over sandstone bedrock
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Bedrock: sandstone, unspecified at 97cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/1/1980 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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

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    97 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—15

    15—64

    97—

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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

    17

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    128

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    225

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; 1 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) fine faint mottles; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.6 very fine roots between peds; distinct dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent iron-manganese concretions in matrix; 1 percent by volume rounded strongly coherent cemented mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL27517. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 460663; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 460663
    B2—15 to 43 centimeters (5.9 to 16.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) fine distinct and 10 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) medium faint mottles; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.6 very fine roots between peds; distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent iron-manganese concretions in matrix; 10 percent by volume rounded strongly coherent cemented mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL27518. patchy - phpvsfiid 460664; patchy - phpvsfiid 460664
    IIB3—43 to 64 centimeters (16.9 to 25.2 inches); variegated light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6) clay; 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) fine distinct mottles; weak coarse prismatic structure; firm; 0.6 very fine roots between peds; 10 percent fine prominent iron-manganese concretions in matrix; 10 percent by volume rounded strongly coherent cemented mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL27519
    IIC—64 to 97 centimeters (25.2 to 38.2 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) silty clay; 10 percent gray (5Y 6/1) fine distinct and 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) fine prominent mottles; structureless massive; firm; 25 percent coarse prominent very pale brown (10YR 8/2), moist, carbonate concretions in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1, hellige-truog. Lab sample # IL27520