IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bluford
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1988IL081002
  • User Pedon ID: 1988IL081002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88IL081002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 22121
  • 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: 38.2964056
  • Std. Longitude: -88.7964861
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 3S
  • Range: 4E
  • Section: 6
  • PLSS Details: 1400 feet south and 340 feet west of northeast corner
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL081—Jefferson
  • MLRA: 113—Central Claypan Areas
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL081—Jefferson County, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Rick Miller, Tom Poehler
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Aeric Fragic Epiaqualfs
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bluford
  • PSC - 30 to 80 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/2/2008
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - aeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bluford
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1988
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Peoria loess and/or Roxana loess and/or Illinoian till
  • Landform: interfluve, hillslope
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1988 (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—30

    30—229

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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

    1.5

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    178.3

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; silt loam; weak very fine granular parts to weak fine columnar structure; friable; 5.0 very fine roots between peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL33997
    E—23 to 30 centimeters (9.1 to 11.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots between peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL33998
    Bt1—30 to 46 centimeters (11.8 to 18.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots between peds; distinct light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds and faint brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL33999. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 427707; continuous - phpvsfiid 427706; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 427707; continuous - phpvsfiid 427706
    Bt2—46 to 94 centimeters (18.1 to 37.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) medium distinct and 10 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) fine distinct mottles; strong medium prismatic structure; very firm; 3.0 very fine roots between peds; distinct light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds and faint dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL34000. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 427709; patchy - phpvsfiid 427708; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 427709; patchy - phpvsfiid 427708
    2Bt3—94 to 155 centimeters (37.0 to 61.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) medium distinct and 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak thin platy structure; firm; distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), 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; extremely acid, pH 4.4; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL34001. patchy - phpvsfiid 427704; patchy - phpvsfiid 427704
    2Bt4—155 to 188 centimeters (61.0 to 74.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and brown (10YR 5/3) and 10Y 6/3 (10Y 6/3) silty clay loam; 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) fine distinct mottles; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; medium prominent spherical iron-manganese concretions in matrix and coarse prominent irregular iron-manganese masses in matrix and 1 percent fine prominent spherical iron-manganese concretions in matrix and 25 percent medium prominent irregular iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL34002
    3Bt5—188 to 229 centimeters (74.0 to 90.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; red (2.5YR 4/8) medium prominent and 25 percent red (2.5YR 4/8) fine prominent mottles; weak coarse prismatic structure; firm; distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent spherical iron-manganese concretions in matrix and 10 percent medium prominent irregular iron-manganese masses in matrix; 1 percent by volume rounded strongly coherent cemented mixed fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4. Lab sample # IL34003. patchy - phpvsfiid 427705; patchy - phpvsfiid 427705