IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Morley
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1980IN183009
  • User Pedon ID: S1980IN183009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - WL8009
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23537
  • 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: 41.1542694
  • Std. Longitude: -85.5384222
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 31N
  • Range: 9E
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: 2425 feet west and 2375 feet north of the southeast corner
  • Map Unit: MvB2—Morley loam, 3 to 6 percent slopes, eroded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN183—Whitley
  • Regional Office: 11—Indianapolis, IN
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-FIN—Findlay, Ohio
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IN183—Whitley County, Indiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Langer
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, illitic, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 9
  • 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 - 7/31/1980
  • 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 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # WL80091
    Bt1—25 to 33 centimeters (9.8 to 13.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # WL80092
    Bt2—33 to 46 centimeters (13.0 to 18.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent brown (10YR 5/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments and 1 percent by volume 19-47-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # WL80093
    Bt3—46 to 53 centimeters (18.1 to 20.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 70 percent brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent by volume 19-47-76 millimeter unspecified fragments and 2 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # WL80094
    BC—53 to 61 centimeters (20.9 to 24.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 2 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments and 2 percent by volume 19-47-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # WL80095
    C—61 to 152 centimeters (24.0 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay loam; massive; very firm; 35 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, carbonate coats on horizontal faces of peds; 2 percent by volume 19-47-76 millimeter unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9. Lab sample # WL80096