IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Morley
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1979IN135050
  • User Pedon ID: 1979IN135050
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - RA7950
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23224
  • Print Date: 4/23/2025

    • 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: 40.3064278
  • Std. Longitude: -84.8440694
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 21N
  • Range: 15E
  • Section: 4
  • PLSS Details: 150 feet west and 1100 feet south of the northeast corner
  • Map Unit: MuB—Morley silt loam, 3 to 6 percent slopes
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN135—Randolph
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IN135—Randolph County, Indiana

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mesic
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 50
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Morley
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Morley variant
  • Classificaton Date - 5/21/2008
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/21/2008 (entry creation 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
    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
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    AP—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; slight effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary.
    B21T—20 to 41 centimeters (7.9 to 16.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 25 percent brown (10YR 5/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, iron depletions; fragments; slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary.
    B22T—41 to 61 centimeters (16.1 to 24.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 25 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary.
    B3T—61 to 91 centimeters (24.0 to 35.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; black (10YR 2/1), moist, organoargillans on all faces of peds and 25 percent brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary.
    C—91 to 152 centimeters (35.8 to 59.8 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) clay loam; structureless massive; very firm; light gray (10YR 7/1), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds; 3 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slight effervescence.