IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Morley
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1989MI025001
  • User Pedon ID: 1989MI025001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 89P0314
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61418
  • Print Date: 4/2/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 1S
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 13
  • Location Description: 2400 feet E and 1300 feet N of the SW corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Michigan
  • County: MI025—Calhoun
  • MLRA: 98—Southern Michigan and Northern Indiana Drift Plains
  • Regional Office: 11—Indianapolis, IN

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Steve Tardy, SS, John Reedstrom, Richard Neilson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Morley
  • PSC - 13 to 46 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/23/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Miami
  • Classificaton Date - 12/1/1989
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/1/1989 (actual site observation date)
  • Microrelief Kind: microdepression
  • Microrelief Elevation: 1
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—13

    13—46

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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

    —

    —

    290

    —

    225

    79

    —

    —

    6

    —

    —

    8

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P1738. few fine roots throughout; few medium roots throughout
    Bt1—13 to 28 centimeters (5.1 to 11.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay loam; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) medium distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 89P1739. few very fine roots throughout; few medium distinct 10YR54 mottles
    Bt2—28 to 46 centimeters (11.0 to 18.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay loam; 11 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) coarse distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 15 percent faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P1740. few clay films surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; few fine roots throughout; common coarse distinct 10YR46 mottles; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 345683; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 345683
    BC—46 to 58 centimeters (18.1 to 22.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) clay loam; 11 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) medium distinct mottles; massive, and moderate coarse subangular blocky; 15 percent faint brown (10YR 5/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 89P1741. few clay films surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; common medium distinct 10YR46 mottles; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 345684; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 345684
    C—58 to 152 centimeters (22.8 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay loam; massive, and moderate coarse subangular blocky; 2 percent faint brown (10YR 5/3), moist, clay films on horizontal faces of peds; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 89P1742. very few clay films surface features on horizontal faces of peds; patchy - phpvsfiid 345685; patchy - phpvsfiid 345685