IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cynthiana Tax
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 93IL069025E
  • User Pedon ID: 93IL069025E
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 93IL069025E
  • User Site Association ID: ECS_1_Ecological Classification System Study_CCA
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 95P0197
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 67215
  • 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: 37.4789571
  • Std. Longitude: -88.3269820
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: MLRA 120. CCA# 58. Whoopie Cat Glade RNA. Lesser Shawnee Hills 222Di. NW 1/4 of the NE 1/4 of Section 16, T12S, R8E. Dana's pedon# S93IL069002-5; Lincoln pedon 93IL0690025; Pedon# 93IL069025
  • State: Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Don Dagnan, USFS and Dana Grantham, SCS
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, mixed Lithic Eutrochrepts
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cynthiana Tax
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey, mixed Lithic Eutrochrepts
  • 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: head slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 50.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Vegplot Text Note(s): NASIS Site Name (MLRA06_Morgantown) was transferred over (MLRA12_Amherst) to align with the new USDA-NRCS SPSD Regional Office boundaries. The MLRA12-Amherst NASIS Site will eventually be renamed as the Northeast NASIS Site.

    • 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    QUMU

    THUJA

    Quercus muehlenbergii

    Thuja

    chinquapin oak

    arborvitae

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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

    37

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    130

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    235

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    A11—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2); weak fine granular structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone-siltstone fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P01285
    A12—5 to 13 centimeters (2.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3); moderate medium granular structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone-siltstone fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P01286
    2Bw1—13 to 23 centimeters (5.1 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3); moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots throughout and 3.0 coarse roots throughout; 10 percent faint dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone-siltstone fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P01287. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 87701; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 87701
    2Bw2—23 to 28 centimeters (9.1 to 11.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4); moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 coarse roots throughout; 10 percent distinct brown (10YR 5/3) clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone-siltstone fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P01288. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 87702; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 87702
    Cr—28 to 38 centimeters (11.0 to 15.0 inches); fragments. limestone and siltstone.
    R—38 centimeters (15.0 inches); fragments. limestone and siltstone.