IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Morley
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1976IN033005
  • User Pedon ID: S1976IN033005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - DK7605
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 22773
  • User Project ID: 201811FIN001
  • Project Name: MLRA 111B - Blount soil on disintegration moraines - loam phase
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 41.3281778
  • Std. Longitude: -84.8355528
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 33N
  • Range: 15E
  • Section: 18
  • PLSS Details: 1500 feet west and 80 feet south of the northeast corner
  • Map Unit: GnB2—Glynwood silt loam, 1 to 4 percent slopes, eroded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN033—De Kalb
  • Regional Office: 11—Indianapolis, IN
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-FIN—Findlay, Ohio

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jensen and Fischer
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, illitic, mesic Oxyaquic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Morley
  • PSC - 15 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/19/2014
  • Classifier - Neil Martin
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Morley
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/1976
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/11/2014 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - close-grown crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) loam; moderate fine granular parts to moderate medium granular structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # DK76051
    B21T—20 to 30 centimeters (7.9 to 11.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) clay; strong fine angular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # DK76052
    B22T—30 to 46 centimeters (11.8 to 18.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) clay; moderate medium angular blocky parts to strong fine angular blocky structure; firm; 70 percent brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # DK76053
    B23T—46 to 64 centimeters (18.1 to 25.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay; moderate medium angular blocky parts to strong fine angular blocky structure; 70 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # DK76054
    B3—64 to 74 centimeters (25.2 to 29.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) clay loam; moderate medium angular blocky parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; 35 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds and 35 percent light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, carbonate coats on faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # DK76055
    C—74 to 155 centimeters (29.1 to 61.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) clay loam; massive; 35 percent light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, carbonate coats on faces of peds; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0. Lab sample # DK76056