IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Morocco
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1976IN087001
  • User Pedon ID: S1976IN087001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - LG7601
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 22563
  • User Project ID: 2017GRR001
  • Project Name: SDJR - MLRA 98 - Morocco loamy sand, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • Print Date: 11/13/2024

    • 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: 41.6824139
  • Std. Longitude: -85.2650306
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 37N
  • Range: 11E
  • Section: 9
  • PLSS Details: 1500 feet north and 500 feet west of the center
  • Location Description: Springfield Township
  • Map Unit: Gr—Granby loamy fine sand, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN087—Lagrange
  • MLRA: 98—Southern Michigan and Northern Indiana Drift Plains
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-GRP—Grand Rapids, Michigan
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IN087—Lagrange County, Indiana
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41085-F3—Mongo, Indiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Kirschner and Franzmeier
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mixed, mesic Typic Psammaquents
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Morocco
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/26/2017
  • Classifier - Jon Quisler
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Morocco
  • Classificaton Date - 9/15/1973
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Wisconsinan sandy glaciofluvial deposits
  • Landform: outwash delta on outwash plain on outwash plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Geology: Wisconsin formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/15/1973 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Kirschner and Franzmeier
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - other
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - urban and built-up
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    endosaturation

    ochric epipedon

    redox concentrations

    aquic conditions

    reduced matrix

    —

    0—30

    18—53

    30—213

    30—53

    —-

    —30—

    —35—

    —183—

    —23—
    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

    0

    —

    —

    278.3

    —

    928

    —

    —

    9.3

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) loamy sand; weak fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, pH meter. Lab sample # LG76011
    E—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) sand; single grain; very friable; 1 percent distinct brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, pH meter. Lab sample # LG76012
    Bg—30 to 53 centimeters (11.8 to 20.9 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) reduced sand; single grain; loose; reduced matrix and 21 percent prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, pH meter. Lab sample # LG76013
    C—53 to 213 centimeters (20.9 to 83.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) sand; single grain; loose; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH meter. Lab sample # LG76014