IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Plumfield
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988IL055003
  • User Pedon ID: 88IL055003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P0467
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 63510
  • 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: 37.9389496
  • Std. Longitude: -88.7872772
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 7S
  • Range: 4E
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: SW 1/4 of the SE 1/4 of the SE 1/4, 1180 feet W and 300 feet N of the SE corner
  • Location Description: Franklin County, Cave Twp.
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL055—Franklin
  • MLRA: 113—Central Claypan Areas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Rick Miller and Bryan Fitch
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, subactive, mesic Typic Fragiudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Plumfield
  • Classificaton Date - 6/15/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Plumfield
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Ochreptic Fragiudalf
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1988
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1988 (actual site observation date)
  • 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
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    107

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    Btx1—0 centimeters (0.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog. no sample; few very fine roots throughout
    2BC—0 centimeters (0.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay loam; 30 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) coarse faint mottles; massive; 2 percent distinct dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog. no sample; very few clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; many coarse faint 10YR54 mottles; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 226723; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 226723
    Ap—0 centimeters (0.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; 2.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog. no sample; common fine roots throughout
    Btx2—30 to 76 centimeters (11.8 to 29.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silt loam; 11 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) fine faint and 30 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) coarse distinct mottles; weak coarse prismatic structure; light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, coats and 15 percent distinct dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 91P02680. few clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; common fine faint 10YR42 mottles; many coarse distinct 10YR56 mottles; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 226720; patchy - phpvsfiid 226721; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 226720; patchy - phpvsfiid 226721
    2Bt—76 to 145 centimeters (29.9 to 57.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay loam; 30 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) coarse faint mottles; weak coarse prismatic structure; 15 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 91P02681. few clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; many coarse faint 10YR54 mottles; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 226722; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 226722