IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Radford
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1981IL131012
  • User Pedon ID: 81IL131012
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 83P0426
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 52663
  • 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: 41.1070667
  • Std. Longitude: -90.6668917
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 13N
  • Range: 2W
  • Section: 19
  • PLSS Details: 19 meters E and 467 meters S of the NW corner
  • Map Unit: 3074A—Radford silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, frequently flooded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL131—Mercer
  • MLRA: 108—Illinois and Iowa Deep Loess and Drift
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-SPI—Springfield, Illinois
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL131—Mercer County, Illinois
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41090-A6—Little York, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: DEC
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Fluvaquentic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 12
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Radford
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Radford
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Fluvaquentic Hapludoll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 3/1/1981
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty alluvium
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: frequent flooding for brief periods
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/14/1978 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Dale E. Calsyne
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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

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    193.3

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    0

    940

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    175

    10.6

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    1Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dry; silt loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; friable; 37 percent very pale brown (10YR 7/3) skeletans; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P01935. common skeletans (sand or silt) surface features
    1A1—18 to 36 centimeters (7.1 to 14.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dry; silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak medium granular structure; friable; 37 percent very pale brown (10YR 7/3) skeletans; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Not sampled.; common skeletans (sand or silt) surface features
    1C1—36 to 61 centimeters (14.2 to 24.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dry; silt loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent very pale brown (10YR 7/3) skeletans; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Not sampled. Some thin strata 10YR31.; few skeletans (sand or silt) surface features
    1C2—61 to 69 centimeters (24.0 to 27.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior and very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, skeletans; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Not sampled.; few skeletans (sand or silt) surface features
    1Ab1—69 to 84 centimeters (27.2 to 33.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Not sampled.
    1Ab2—84 to 104 centimeters (33.1 to 40.9 inches); black (N 2/0) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine granular structure; firm; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P01936
    1AB3—104 to 145 centimeters (40.9 to 57.1 inches); black (N 2/0) interior silty clay loam; moderate coarse prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Not sampled.
    1BHb—145 to 152 centimeters (57.1 to 59.8 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior silty clay loam; 11 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) fine prominent mottles; moderate coarse prismatic, and moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog. Not sampled.; common fine prominent 2.5Y52 mottles