IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Darmstadt
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2017IL173002
  • User Pedon ID: S2017IL173002
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - T2017IL173002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 18N0019
  • User Project ID: 201711MAN002
  • Project Name: MLRA 113 - 620A Darmstadt mapunit composition
  • Print Date: 12/10/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 10N
  • Range: 4E
  • Section: 9
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL173—Shelby
  • MLRA: 114—Southern Illinois and Indiana Thin Loess and Till Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL173—Shelby County, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Zach Weber
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aquic Natrudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Darmstadt
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aquic Natrudalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 37 to 87 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/24/2017
  • Classifier - Zach Weber
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 56 millisiemens per meter (mS/m) of Geonics EM-38 vertical reading and 42 millisiemens per meter (mS/m) of Geonics EM-38 horizontal reading


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Peoria loess
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: interfluve
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/31/2017 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Zach Weber
  • 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
    • 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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    Ap—0 to 27 centimeters (0.0 to 10.6 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) silt loam; 11 percent sand; 70 percent silt; 19 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, pH indicator solutions. Lab sample # 18N00193; observed in push tube
    E—27 to 37 centimeters (10.6 to 14.6 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silt loam; 11 percent sand; 70 percent silt; 19 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; 5 percent fine distinct irregular dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, pH indicator solutions.; observed in push tube
    Bt—37 to 64 centimeters (14.6 to 25.2 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silty clay loam; 10 percent sand; 55 percent silt; 35 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; 10 percent prominent very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, organoargillans on all faces of peds and 50 percent faint dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent medium prominent irregular yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 7.3, pH indicator solutions. Lab sample # 18N00194; observed in push tube
    Btng—64 to 115 centimeters (25.2 to 45.3 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silty clay loam; 10 percent sand; 59 percent silt; 31 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; 15 percent prominent very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, organoargillans on all faces of peds; 30 percent coarse prominent irregular yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7, pH indicator solutions. Lab sample # 18N00195; observed in push tube