IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Darroch
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1980IN007034
  • User Pedon ID: 1980IN007034
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - BE8034
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23513
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 40.6364778
  • Std. Longitude: -87.2948528
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 25N
  • Range: 8W
  • Section: 2
  • PLSS Details: 2460 feet west and 410 feet north of the southeast corner
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN007—Benton

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Barnes and Heltsley
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mesic Aquic Argiudolls
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 34
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Darroch
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Darroch
  • Classificaton Date - 10/8/1980
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: rise on moraine
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Geology: Wisconsin formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/8/1980 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • 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
  • Yield Study ID -
    • Setting and Climate
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    AP—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; loam; weak medium granular structure; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # BE80341
    A12—25 to 33 centimeters (9.8 to 13.0 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # BE80342
    B21T—33 to 48 centimeters (13.0 to 18.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 35 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 3 percent distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # BE80343
    B22T—48 to 79 centimeters (18.9 to 31.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 35 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 3 percent distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # BE80344
    C1G—79 to 99 centimeters (31.1 to 39.0 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) silt loam; massive; friable; 1 percent olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 1 percent light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, iron depletions and 21 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.3; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # BE80345
    C2—99 to 140 centimeters (39.0 to 55.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) silt loam; massive; friable; 1 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, iron depletions and 1 percent olive yellow (2.5Y 6/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 21 percent distinct grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # BE80346
    C3—140 to 152 centimeters (55.1 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loam; massive; friable; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 21 percent distinct gray (10YR 6/1), moist, iron depletions; 3 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2. Lab sample # BE80347