IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Morley
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1980IN001003
  • User Pedon ID: 1980IN001003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - AD8003
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23416
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: 40.6256139
  • Std. Longitude: -84.9221806
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 25N
  • Range: 14E
  • Section: 15
  • PLSS Details: 1580 feet west and 1360 feet south of the northeast 1/4
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN001—Adams

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Farmer and Ziegler
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Morley
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Morley
  • Classificaton Date - 10/17/1980
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: rise on till plain
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Geology: Wisconsin formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/17/1980 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) silty clay loam; moderate medium granular parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # AD80031
    B21T—23 to 30 centimeters (9.1 to 11.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to prismatic structure; very firm; 15 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, silt coats on faces of peds and 35 percent brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # AD80032
    B22T—30 to 43 centimeters (11.8 to 16.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very firm; 35 percent brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # AD80033
    B23T—43 to 51 centimeters (16.9 to 20.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very firm; 35 percent brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # AD80034
    B3T—51 to 74 centimeters (20.1 to 29.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 15 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 3 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; violent effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # AD80035
    C—74 to 152 centimeters (29.1 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay loam; weak medium massive; firm; 1 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions and 21 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0. Lab sample # AD80036