IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Morley
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985IN179006a
  • User Pedon ID: S1985IN179006a
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0903
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 57169
  • Print Date: 4/27/2025

    • 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: 40.9016685
  • Std. Longitude: -85.2630539
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 28N
  • Range: 11E
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: 400 feet West and 420 feet South of the NE corner
  • Map Unit: GnB2—Glynwood silt loam, 2 to 5 percent slopes, eroded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN179—Wells
  • MLRA: 111—Indiana and Ohio Till Plain
  • Regional Office: 11—Indianapolis, IN
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-FIN—Findlay, Ohio

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: David K. Lefforge and Noel P. Anderson
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Mississinewa
  • PSC - 15 to 43 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/19/2014
  • Classifier - Neil Martin
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Morley
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, illitic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1985
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • 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
  • 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

    argillic horizon

    15—43

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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

    8

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    247

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    315

    84

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dry; silty clay loam; weak medium granular, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 5.5 very fine roots throughout and 5.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P04832; dry when described;. The surface horizon consists of 75 percent subsoil.; many fine roots throughout; many very fine roots throughout
    Bt1—15 to 33 centimeters (5.9 to 13.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 2.5 very fine roots throughout and 2.5 fine roots throughout; 5.5 medium interstitial and tubular and 0.5 fine interstitial and tubular pores; 37 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P04833; moist when described;. common clay films surface features on faces of peds; common fine roots throughout; common very fine roots throughout; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1303359; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1303359
    Bt2—33 to 43 centimeters (13.0 to 16.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 5.5 medium interstitial and tubular and 0.5 medium interstitial and tubular pores; 37 percent prominent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P04834; moist when described;. common clay films surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; few very fine roots throughout; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1303360; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1303360
    Cd—43 to 152 centimeters (16.9 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silty clay loam; 11 percent brown (10YR 5/3) fine distinct mottles; weak very coarse platy, and weak medium platy structure; very firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 15 percent faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 37 percent distinct white (10YR 8/1), moist, carbonate coats on all faces of peds; 3 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, pH meter. Lab sample # 85P04835; moist when described;. The C horizon was sampled at 40 inches.; few clay films surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; common lime or carbonate coats surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; few very fine roots throughout; common fine distinct 10YR53 mottles; effervescence is continuous; patchy - phpvsfiid 1303361; patchy - phpvsfiid 1303362; patchy - phpvsfiid 1303361; patchy - phpvsfiid 1303362