IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Menfro
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1981IL013013
  • User Pedon ID: 1981IL013013
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 81IL013013
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 21318
  • 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: 38.9378752
  • Std. Longitude: -90.5647160
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 13S
  • Range: 1W
  • Section: 18
  • PLSS Details: 940 feet west and 400 feet south of the northeast corner
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL013—Calhoun
  • MLRA: 115—Central Mississippi Valley Wooded Slopes
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL013—Calhoun County, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Michael E. Lilly
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 13
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Menfro
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/11/2017
  • Classifier - Frank E. Heisner
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fayette
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1981
  • Classifier - Michael E. Lilly
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Peoria loess
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: interfluve
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1981 (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 -
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—20

    20—173

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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

    7

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    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 0.6 fine roots between peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL27807
    E—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak thin platy structure; friable; 0.6 fine roots between peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL27808
    Bt1—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 fine roots between peds; faint brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL27809. continuous - phpvsfiid 1498617; continuous - phpvsfiid 1498617
    Bt2—36 to 66 centimeters (14.2 to 26.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.6 fine roots between peds; faint brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL27810. continuous - phpvsfiid 1498624; continuous - phpvsfiid 1498624
    Bt3—66 to 97 centimeters (26.0 to 38.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.6 fine roots between peds; distinct strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL27811. continuous - phpvsfiid 1498618; continuous - phpvsfiid 1498618
    Bt4—97 to 130 centimeters (38.2 to 51.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) silt loam; strong medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.6 fine roots between peds; faint strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and prominent very pale brown (10YR 7/4), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL27812. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1498620; continuous - phpvsfiid 1498619; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1498620; continuous - phpvsfiid 1498619
    Bt5—130 to 155 centimeters (51.2 to 61.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; strong medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.6 fine roots between peds; distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and distinct very pale brown (10YR 7/4), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL27813. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1498622; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1498622
    Bt6—155 to 173 centimeters (61.0 to 68.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL27814. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1498623; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1498623
    C—173 to 196 centimeters (68.1 to 77.2 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) silt loam; structureless massive; very firm; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3.