IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Morley
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1987IN183001
  • User Pedon ID: 87IN183001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0495
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59790
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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: 41.1602783
  • Std. Longitude: -85.5694427
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 31N
  • Range: 8E
  • Section: 12
  • PLSS Details: 440 feet S and 220 feet W of NE corner
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN183—Whitley
  • MLRA: 111—Indiana and Ohio Till Plain

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Ruesch
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Morley
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, illitic Typic Hapludalfs
  • PSC - 18 to 30 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1987
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: dead ice moraine
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/1987 (actual site observation date)
  • 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—18

    18—30

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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

    7

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    272

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    225

    89

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    1Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior clay loam; weak coarse granular structure; firm; 2.5 fine roots throughout; 2 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 6 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, thymol-blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P02611. common fine roots throughout
    1Bt—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior clay; 11 percent brown (10YR 5/3) medium faint mottles; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots between peds; 37 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 2 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 6.7, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P02612. common clay films surface features on faces of peds; few very fine roots between peds; common medium faint 10YR53 mottles; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 221961; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 221961
    1BC—30 to 43 centimeters (11.8 to 16.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior clay loam; 11 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine distinct mottles; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots between peds; 15 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine platy masses of oxidized iron and 1 percent platy iron-manganese masses; 1 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 2 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, thymol-blue; gradual wavy boundary. few fine soft masses of iron concentrations; few very fine and fine soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; few clay films surface features on faces of peds; few very fine roots between peds; common fine distinct 10YR52 mottles; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 221962; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 221962
    1C—43 to 152 centimeters (16.9 to 59.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior clay loam; 11 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine faint mottles; massive; very firm; 0.5 very fine roots in cracks; 2 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds and 37 percent distinct gray (10YR 6/1), moist, carbonate coats on faces of peds; 1 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 2 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, thymol-blue. Lab sample # 87P02613. common lime or carbonate coats surface features on faces of peds; very few clay films surface features on vertical faces of peds; few very fine roots in cracks; common fine faint 10YR52 mottles; continuous - phpvsfiid 221963; patchy - phpvsfiid 221964; continuous - phpvsfiid 221963; patchy - phpvsfiid 221964