IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Darmstadt
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1988IL027072
  • User Pedon ID: 1988IL027072
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88IL027072
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 22094
  • 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: 38.6977667
  • Std. Longitude: -89.1969694
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: 125 feet north and 75 feet east of the southwest corner of southeast 1/4 of southeast 1/4
  • Location Description: 125p N & 75p E of the SW corner of SE1/4 of SE1/4 of Sec.16, East Fork Township
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL027—Clinton
  • MLRA: 113—Central Claypan Areas
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL027—Clinton County, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: G Ward Lenz
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aquic Natrudalfs
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 72
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Darmstadt
  • PSC - 43 to 93 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/2/2008
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Darmstadt
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1988
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/1988 (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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    76 - 155

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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—20

    20—43

    76—155

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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

    1

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    144.2

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; silt loam; weak fine granular parts to weak very fine granular structure; friable; 0.6 very fine roots between peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL33798
    E1—20 to 28 centimeters (7.9 to 11.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silt loam; 1 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine distinct and 1 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) fine faint and 25 percent brown (10YR 5/3) fine faint mottles; moderate coarse platy parts to moderate fine granular structure; friable; 0.6 very fine roots between peds; faint light gray (10YR 7/2), dry, silt coats on all faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL33799. patchy - phpvsfiid 427939; patchy - phpvsfiid 427939
    E2—28 to 43 centimeters (11.0 to 16.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silt loam; 10 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) fine faint and 25 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) fine faint mottles; moderate coarse platy parts to weak fine subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; friable; 0.6 very fine roots between peds; faint light gray (10YR 7/2), dry, silt coats on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, lamotte-morgan; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL33800. patchy - phpvsfiid 427941; patchy - phpvsfiid 427941
    Bt1—43 to 61 centimeters (16.9 to 24.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; yellowish red (5YR 4/6) medium distinct and 10 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) fine distinct mottles; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate fine prismatic parts to strong fine prismatic parts to strong very fine prismatic structure; firm; 0.6 very fine roots between peds; faint grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL33801. continuous - phpvsfiid 427942; continuous - phpvsfiid 427942
    Btg1—61 to 76 centimeters (24.0 to 29.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silty clay loam; 10 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) fine prominent and 25 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) fine prominent mottles; weak coarse prismatic structure; firm; 0.6 very fine roots between peds; faint grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL33802. patchy - phpvsfiid 427943; patchy - phpvsfiid 427943
    2Btg2—76 to 117 centimeters (29.9 to 46.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silty clay loam; 10 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) fine prominent mottles; weak coarse prismatic structure; firm; 0.6 very fine roots between peds; faint gray (10YR 6/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; medium prominent iron-manganese masses in matrix and 10 percent fine prominent iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL33803. patchy - phpvsfiid 427940; patchy - phpvsfiid 427940
    2BC—117 to 130 centimeters (46.1 to 51.2 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) silt loam; 1 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) fine faint mottles; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; medium prominent iron-manganese masses in matrix and 10 percent fine prominent iron-manganese masses in matrix; distinct grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, carbonate concretions in cracks; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL33804. patchy - phpvsfiid 427936; patchy - phpvsfiid 427936
    2Cg—130 to 155 centimeters (51.2 to 61.0 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) loam; 1 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) medium prominent and 10 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) medium prominent mottles; structureless massive; firm; faint dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and faint gray (10YR 5/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; coarse prominent iron-manganese masses in matrix and 10 percent medium prominent iron-manganese masses in matrix; distinct grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, carbonate concretions in matrix; 1 percent by volume mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, lamotte-morgan. Lab sample # IL33805. patchy - phpvsfiid 427937; patchy - phpvsfiid 427938; patchy - phpvsfiid 427937; patchy - phpvsfiid 427938