IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Alford
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1950IL101001
  • User Pedon ID: S1950IL101001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A2725
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 37305
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 38.6936111
  • Std. Longitude: -87.6744461
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 3N
  • Range: 11W
  • Section: 18
  • PLSS Details: SE 1/4, NW 40
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL101—Lawrence
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL101—Lawrence County, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J.B. Fehrenbacher and A.A. Klingebiel
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Alford
  • Classificaton Date - 6/15/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Alford
  • Classificaton Date - 6/7/1960
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/7/1960 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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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    A1—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) and brown (10YR 5/3) silt loam; friable; fragments. Lab sample # 40A21403
    A2—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak granular structure; friable; fragments. Lab sample # 40A21404
    B1—30 to 43 centimeters (11.8 to 16.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; fine subangular blocky structure; firm; faint light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) coats; fragments. Lab sample # 40A21405
    B2—43 to 64 centimeters (16.9 to 25.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky; 10 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1) coats; fragments. Lab sample # 40A21406
    B3—64 to 91 centimeters (25.2 to 35.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; thick platy, and weak angular blocky structure; firm; 10 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) coats; fragments. Lab sample # 40A21407
    C1—91 to 107 centimeters (35.8 to 42.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; massive; friable; 10 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) coats; fragments. Lab sample # 40A21408