IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Morley
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1978IN003002
  • User Pedon ID: S1978IN003002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - AL7802
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23417
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: 40.9806417
  • Std. Longitude: -85.3334417
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 29N
  • Range: 11E
  • Section: 7
  • PLSS Details: 3420 feet north and 750 feet east of the southwest CORNER
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN003—Allen
  • Regional Office: 11—Indianapolis, IN
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-FIN—Findlay, Ohio

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Lockridge
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, illitic, active, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Morley
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/19/2014
  • Classifier - Neil Martin
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Morley
  • Classificaton Date - 6/16/1978
  • 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 - row 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), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; loam; moderate fine granular parts to subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # AL78021
    Bt1—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay loam; subangular blocky structure; friable; dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # AL78022
    Bt2—33 to 74 centimeters (13.0 to 29.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay; subangular blocky structure; firm; brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # AL78023
    BCt—74 to 99 centimeters (29.1 to 39.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; subangular blocky structure; firm; brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # AL78024
    C—99 to 152 centimeters (39.0 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; massive; firm; , moist, clay films; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0. Lab sample # AL78025