IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cowden
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1988IL027074
  • User Pedon ID: 1988IL027074
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88IL027074
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 22096
  • Print Date: 5/29/2024

    • 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: 38.4818528
  • Std. Longitude: -89.6660167
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1N
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: 474 feet north and 345 feet east southwest corner
  • Location Description: 58YDS N & 115YDS E from 2nd t-pole N from corner 474FT N & 345FT E SW corner
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL027—Clinton
  • MLRA: 114—Southern Illinois and Indiana Thin Loess and Till Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL027—Clinton County, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: DBG
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Mollic Albaqualfs
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 74
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Cowden
  • PSC - 46 to 96 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/2/2008
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cowden
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1988
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Peoria loess and/or Roxana loess and/or Illinoian till
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/1988 (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

    albic horizon

    argillic horizon

    0—23

    23—46

    46—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

    0.5

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    129.2

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; weak medium granular structure; friable; 10 percent fine distinct iron-manganese concretions in matrix; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, lamotte-morgan; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL33813
    Eg1—23 to 33 centimeters (9.1 to 13.0 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) silt loam; 10 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1) medium faint mottles; moderate medium platy structure; friable; medium distinct iron-manganese masses in matrix and 10 percent fine distinct iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL33814
    Eg2—33 to 46 centimeters (13.0 to 18.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silt loam; 10 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1) fine faint mottles; weak medium granular structure; friable; medium prominent iron-manganese masses in matrix and 10 percent fine prominent iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, lamotte-morgan; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL33815
    Btg1—46 to 69 centimeters (18.1 to 27.2 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silty clay; 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) fine prominent mottles; moderate fine prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; distinct dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and faint dark greenish gray (10Y 3/1), moist, organoargillans on all faces of peds; medium prominent iron-manganese masses in matrix and 10 percent fine prominent iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL33816. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 427921; patchy - phpvsfiid 427922; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 427921; patchy - phpvsfiid 427922
    Btg2—69 to 86 centimeters (27.2 to 33.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silty clay; 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) fine prominent mottles; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; faint very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, organoargillans on all faces of peds and distinct dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; medium prominent iron-manganese masses in matrix and 10 percent fine prominent iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL33817. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 427924; patchy - phpvsfiid 427923; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 427924; patchy - phpvsfiid 427923
    Btg3—86 to 104 centimeters (33.9 to 40.9 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) silty clay; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine prominent mottles; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; distinct dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; medium prominent iron-manganese masses in matrix and 10 percent fine prominent iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL33818. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 427918; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 427918
    Btg4—104 to 122 centimeters (40.9 to 48.0 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) silty clay; 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine prominent mottles; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; faint dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; medium prominent iron-manganese masses in matrix and 10 percent fine prominent iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL33819. patchy - phpvsfiid 427920; patchy - phpvsfiid 427920
    BCg—122 to 152 centimeters (48.0 to 59.8 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) silty clay loam; 10 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) medium prominent mottles; weak coarse prismatic structure; firm; distinct dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; coarse prominent iron-manganese masses in matrix and medium prominent iron-manganese masses in matrix and 10 percent fine prominent iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, lamotte-morgan. Lab sample # IL33820. patchy - phpvsfiid 427919; patchy - phpvsfiid 427919