IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Marseilles
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1984IL183040
  • User Pedon ID: 1984IL183040
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 84IL183040
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 21778
  • 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: 40.0695028
  • Std. Longitude: -87.5675806
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 19N
  • Range: 11W
  • Section: 35
  • PLSS Details: 1180 feet W & 1400 feet S of NE corner
  • Location Description: 1/2way upslope E of pond
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL183—Vermilion
  • MLRA: 108—Illinois and Iowa Deep Loess and Drift
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL183—Vermilion County, Illinois
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40087-A5—Danville SE, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 40
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Marseilles
  • PSC - 36 to 86 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/4/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gosport
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1984
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/1984 (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 -
    • 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
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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam, gravel; moderate fine granular structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL31356
    BA—8 to 18 centimeters (3.1 to 7.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam, gravel; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 50 percent faint very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL31357
    Bw1—18 to 36 centimeters (7.1 to 14.2 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam, gravel; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 25 percent faint very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL31358
    2Bw2—36 to 53 centimeters (14.2 to 20.9 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) silt loam, gravel; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 10 percent faint very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds; 1 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments and 1 percent by volume siltstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL31359
    2BC—53 to 74 centimeters (20.9 to 29.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 10 percent faint dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds; 4 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments and 4 percent by volume siltstone, unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL31360
    2C—74 to 91 centimeters (29.1 to 35.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2); weak medium platy structure; extremely firm; 10 percent faint dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1. Lab sample # IL31361