IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Morley
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1989MI025003
  • User Pedon ID: 1989MI025003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 89P0316
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61420
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 42.3681111
  • Std. Longitude: -84.9840278
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1S
  • Range: 6W
  • Section: 23
  • Location Description: 360 feet E and 1920 feet N of the SW corner
  • Map Unit: 39D—Morley loam, 12 to 18 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Michigan
  • County: MI025—Calhoun
  • MLRA: 98—Southern Michigan and Northern Indiana Drift Plains
  • Regional Office: 11—Indianapolis, IN
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MI025—Calhoun County, Michigan
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 42084-C8—Marshall, Michigan

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Steve Tardy, SS, John Reedstrom, Richard Neilson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, illitic, 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 #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Morley
  • PSC - 20 to 56 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/23/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Morley
  • Classificaton Date - 12/1/1989
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: till derived from mixed-calcareous
  • Landscape: upland
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/1/1989 (actual site observation date)
  • Microrelief Elevation: 1
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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—20

    99—130

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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

    33

    —

    —

    280

    —

    135

    79

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    6

    —

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    8

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 5.5 fine roots throughout; 4 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P1747. many fine roots throughout
    B/Et—20 to 28 centimeters (7.9 to 11.0 inches); 10 percent brown (10YR 5/3) and 90 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay loam, loam; 11 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) fine distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 2.5 fine roots throughout; 15 percent distinct brown (10YR 5/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 4 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P1748. few clay films surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; common fine roots throughout; common fine distinct 10YR58 mottles; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 345686; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 345686
    Bt—28 to 56 centimeters (11.0 to 22.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay loam; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine faint mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 2.5 fine roots throughout; 15 percent prominent brown (10YR 5/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 4 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P1749. few clay films surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; common fine roots throughout; few fine faint 10YR56 mottles; continuous - phpvsfiid 345687; continuous - phpvsfiid 345687
    C—56 to 152 centimeters (22.0 to 59.8 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) clay loam; 11 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine faint mottles; moderate coarse platy, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 2.5 fine roots throughout; 15 percent prominent olive gray (5Y 5/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 6 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 89P1750. few clay films surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; common fine roots throughout; common fine faint 10YR56 mottles; effervescence is continuous; continuous - phpvsfiid 345688; continuous - phpvsfiid 345688