IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Darmstadt
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1986IL051100
  • User Pedon ID: 1986IL051100
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86IL051100
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 21941
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 39.0252250
  • Std. Longitude: -88.8992694
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 7N
  • Range: 3E
  • Section: 30
  • PLSS Details: 50 feet west and 925 feet south of the northeast corner
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL051—Fayette
  • MLRA: 113—Central Claypan Areas
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL051—Fayette County, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: MSH LLK KDB CCB
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aquic Natrudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 100
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Darmstadt
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/2/2008
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Darmstadt
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1986
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Peoria loess and/or Roxana loess and/or Illinoian till
  • Landscape: upland, till plain
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1986 (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 -
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    natric

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    36 - 152

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

    ochric epipedon

    albic horizon

    natric horizon

    0—23

    23—36

    36—152

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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

    2.5

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    179.8

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    135

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; silt loam; medium granular, and moderate fine structure; friable; 0.6 very fine roots between peds; ; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL32604
    E—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silt loam; medium subangular blocky, and weak fine platy parts to moderate fine structure; friable; 0.6 very fine roots between peds; distinct light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, silica coats on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent spherical black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL32605. continuous - phpvsfiid 427714; patchy - phpvsfiid 427715; continuous - phpvsfiid 427714; patchy - phpvsfiid 427715
    Bt1—36 to 71 centimeters (14.2 to 28.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silty clay loam; medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium platy parts to moderate fine structure; friable; 0.6 very fine roots between peds; prominent 10YR 7/ (10YR 7/), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds and distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and prominent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent spherical black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese nodules in matrix; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL32606, IL32607. Horizon split for sampling: IL32607 51 to 71 cm, IL32606 36 to 51 cm.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 427716; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 427717; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 427718; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 427716; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 427717; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 427718
    Bt2—71 to 99 centimeters (28.0 to 39.0 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) silty clay loam; medium subangular blocky, and weak medium prismatic parts to weak fine structure; friable; distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and distinct light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds and distinct brown (7.5YR 5/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent spherical iron-manganese nodules in matrix; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL32608, IL32609. Horizon split for sampling: IL32609 81 to 99 cm, IL32608 71 to 81 cm.; continuous - phpvsfiid 427723; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 427722; continuous - phpvsfiid 427724; continuous - phpvsfiid 427723; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 427722; continuous - phpvsfiid 427724
    Bt3—99 to 119 centimeters (39.0 to 46.9 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; distinct very pale brown (10YR 7/3), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds and distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and distinct gray (10YR 5/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, cresol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL32610. continuous - phpvsfiid 427720; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 427719; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 427721; continuous - phpvsfiid 427720; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 427719; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 427721
    2BC—119 to 152 centimeters (46.9 to 59.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silty clay loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; friable; distinct strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, lamotte-morgan. Lab sample # IL32611. continuous - phpvsfiid 427712; continuous - phpvsfiid 427712