IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hickory
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1983IL121028
  • User Pedon ID: S1983IL121028
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - LIMS
  • Lab Pedon # - 83IL121028
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 21635
  • 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: 38.7507333
  • Std. Longitude: -88.7778833
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 4N
  • Range: 4E
  • Section: 32
  • PLSS Details: about 400 feet south & 1,980 feet west of the NE section corner, Meachum Township
  • Map Unit: 8F—Hickory silt loam, 18 to 35 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL121—Marion
  • MLRA: 113—Central Claypan Areas
  • Regional Office: 11—Indianapolis, IN
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-MAN—Marion, Illinois
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL121—Marion County, Illinois
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38088-G7—Kinmundy, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Cliff C. Miles, Doug B. Gaines, & R. A. B.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 6.2
  • Pedon #: 28
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hickory
  • PSC - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/20/2017
  • Classifier - Randy Leeper
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ursa
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Chromic Vertic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/25/1983
  • Classifier - Cliff Miles, Doug Gaines, R.A.B.
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • 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
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/25/1983 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: CCM, RAB, DBG
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 1
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID Data Collector Total Clay CaCO3 Clay Total Silt Fine Silt Co. Silt Total Sand Total Sand Method VC Sand Co. Sand Med. Sand Fine Sand VF Sand VF Sand Method Texture Class - Field Lab Rubbed Fiber Unrubbed Fiber pH H2O
    cm cm % % % % % % % % % % % % %

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    Bt1

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    C

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 2
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID pH CaCl2 pH NaF pH Ox Delta pH LL PL PI Atter. Samp. Cond. COLE Pot. Acidity Ca + Mg - Meh 2 K Ca + Mg - Sat. Paste KCl Extract. Acidity Base Sat. - Meh 2 CEC-7 CEC-8.2
    cm cm % % % cm/cm meq/100g cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg mmol(+)/l cmol(+)/kg % cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 3
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID ECEC Phosphate P NO3-N EC EC Method EC 1:5 by volume CaCO3 Equiv. Equiv. Gypsum Na SAR Gypsum Req. Humic Color Fulvic Color Humic + Fulvic Color Al PI Pyro. Hue PyrO. Value Pyro. Chroma
    cm cm cmol(+)/kg mg/kg mg/kg dS/m dS/m % % mmol(+)/l % L-pcu/g L-pcu/g L-pcu/g %

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    C

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—18

    18—122

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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

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; loam; weak very fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL30130
    E—5 to 18 centimeters (2.0 to 7.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loam; weak thin platy, and weak medium platy structure; friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL30131
    Bt1—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 35 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL30132. the loam texture is outside the RIC; continuous - phpvsfiid 1546541; continuous - phpvsfiid 1546541
    Bt2—30 to 56 centimeters (11.8 to 22.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 50 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium prominent spherical dark reddish brown (5YR 2.5/2), moist, iron-manganese nodules with sharp boundaries in matrix; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL30133. continuous - phpvsfiid 1546542; continuous - phpvsfiid 1546542
    Bt3—56 to 76 centimeters (22.0 to 29.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium prominent spherical dark reddish brown (5YR 2.5/2), moist, iron-manganese nodules with sharp boundaries in matrix; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL30134. continuous - phpvsfiid 1546543; continuous - phpvsfiid 1546543
    Bt4—76 to 104 centimeters (29.9 to 40.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) gravelly clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 35 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent medium prominent spherical dark reddish brown (5YR 2.5/2), moist, iron-manganese nodules with sharp boundaries in matrix; 15 percent by volume mixed fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # IL30135. continuous - phpvsfiid 1546544; continuous - phpvsfiid 1546544
    Bt5—104 to 122 centimeters (40.9 to 48.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 26 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium prominent spherical dark reddish brown (5YR 2.5/2), moist, iron-manganese nodules with sharp boundaries in matrix; 10 percent by volume mixed fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # IL30136
    C—122 to 152 centimeters (48.0 to 59.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) gravelly sandy loam; massive; friable; 1 percent medium prominent irregular dark reddish brown (5YR 2.5/2), moist, iron-manganese nodules with clear boundaries in matrix; 35 percent by volume mixed fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4. Lab sample # IL30137