IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Menfro
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1981IL013024
  • User Pedon ID: 1981IL013024
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 81IL013024
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 21327
  • 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: 38.9719941
  • Std. Longitude: -90.6467770
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12S
  • Range: 2W
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: 2260 feet east and 1600 feet north of the southwest 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: James A. Ritterbusch
  • 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 #: 24
  • 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 - James A. Ritterbusch
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Peoria loess
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: sinkhole
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • 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 - 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—8

    20—122

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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

    15

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    Ap—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; silty clay loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 6.0 medium roots between peds and 6.0 fine roots between peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL27870
    Bw—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 6.0 fine roots between peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL27871
    Bt1—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.6 very fine roots between peds; faint brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, lamotte-morgan; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL27872. patchy - phpvsfiid 1498625; patchy - phpvsfiid 1498625
    Bt2—33 to 64 centimeters (13.0 to 25.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.1 very fine roots between peds; faint brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL27873. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1498626; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1498626
    Bt3—64 to 94 centimeters (25.2 to 37.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.1 very fine roots between peds; faint brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL27874. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1498627; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1498627
    Bt4—94 to 122 centimeters (37.0 to 48.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; faint brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL27875. patchy - phpvsfiid 1498628; patchy - phpvsfiid 1498628
    C—122 to 145 centimeters (48.0 to 57.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; structureless massive; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, lamotte-morgan. Lab sample # IL27876