IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hickory
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1978IL157041
  • User Pedon ID: S1978IL157041
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 78IL157041
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 21066
  • 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: 38.2155028
  • Std. Longitude: -89.6013250
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 4S
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 1
  • PLSS Details: 1200 feet N & 175 feet E of center
  • Map Unit: 8F—Hickory silt loam, 18 to 35 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL157—Randolph
  • MLRA: 114—Southern Illinois and Indiana Thin Loess and Till Plain
  • Regional Office: 11—Indianapolis, IN
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-MAN—Marion, Illinois
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL157—Randolph County, Illinois
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38089-B5—Coulterville, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: GH, LV
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 41
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hickory
  • PSC - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/4/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hickory
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1978
  • Classifier - GV, LV
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Illinois-age till
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: ground moraine
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1978 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: GH, LV
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—18

    18—76

    —18—

    —58—
    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

    18

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    149

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    190

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 3.0 roots between peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL26132; observed in push tube
    Bt1—18 to 53 centimeters (7.1 to 20.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 roots between peds; distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume rounded strongly coherent cemented mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL26133; observed in push tube
    Bt2—53 to 76 centimeters (20.9 to 29.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; very firm; 0.6 roots between peds; distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent medium prominent brown (10YR 5/3), moist, iron depletions; 10 percent by volume rounded strongly coherent cemented mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL26134; observed in push tube
    BC1—76 to 140 centimeters (29.9 to 55.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 10 percent medium faint brown (10YR 5/3), moist, iron depletions; 12 percent by volume rounded strongly coherent cemented mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL26135; observed in push tube
    BC2—140 to 152 centimeters (55.1 to 59.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) loam, gravel; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 10 percent medium prominent brown (10YR 5/3), moist, iron depletions; 20 percent by volume rounded strongly coherent cemented mixed fragments. Lab sample # IL26136; observed in push tube