IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fairmount
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 93IL069014E
  • User Pedon ID: 93IL069014E
  • User Site Association ID: ECS_1_Ecological Classification System Study_CCA
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 95P0196
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 67214
  • Print Date: 5/31/2024

    • 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: 37.4755891
  • Std. Longitude: -88.3238498
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: MLRA 120. CCA# 57. Whoopie Cat Glade East. Lesser Shawnee Hills-222Di NE 1/4 of the NE 1/4 of Section 16, T. 12. S., R. 8. E. Dana's pedon# S93IL069001-4; Lincoln pedon# 93IL0690014; Pedon# 93IL069014
  • State: Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Don Dagnan, USFS and Dana Grantham, SCS
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, mixed Lithic Hapludolls
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fairmount
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey, mixed Lithic Hapludolls
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1993
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 25.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/1993 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 45
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: wind and 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

    32

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    152

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    235

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    A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2); moderate medium granular structure; friable; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone-shale fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P01282
    A2—5 to 10 centimeters (2.0 to 3.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3); weak fine subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; friable; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone-shale fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P01283
    C—10 to 15 centimeters (3.9 to 5.9 inches); 50 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and 50 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4); firm; 0.5 very fine and fine roots around fragments; 75 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone-shale fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P01284
    Cr—15 to 25 centimeters (5.9 to 9.8 inches); fragments.
    R—25 centimeters (9.8 inches); fragments.