IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Morocco
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • Local Phase: buried
  • User Site ID: S1996IN073001
  • User Pedon ID: S1996IN073001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 96P0196
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 68274
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 41.1556091
  • Std. Longitude: -86.9865417
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 31N
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: NW 1/4 NW 1/4
  • Location Description: Walker Township; Jasper-Pulaski State Game Preserve
  • Map Unit: Mu—Morocco loamy sand, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN073—Jasper
  • MLRA: 98—Southern Michigan and Northern Indiana Drift Plains
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-GRP—Grand Rapids, Michigan
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IN073—Jasper County, Indiana
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41086-B8—San Pierre, Indiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Bill Hosteter, Scott Haley
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mixed, mesic Aquic Udipsamments
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Morocco
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2017
  • Classifier - Jon Quisler
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Morocco-Like
  • Taxonomic Class - Mixed Aquic Udipsamments
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/11/1996
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy eolian deposits derived from mixed
  • Landscape: dune field
  • Landform: dune
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Pattern: deranged
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/11/1996 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Bill Hosteter and Scot Haley
  • Air Photo ID: 22
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: wind and water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    endosaturation

    ochric epipedon

    aquic conditions

    redox concentrations

    reduced matrix

    reduced matrix

    —

    0—14

    33—186

    33—112

    98—112

    136—186

    —-

    —14—

    —153—

    —79—

    —14—

    —50—
    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

    5

    —

    —

    215.1

    —

    90

    974

    —

    —

    10

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    O—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); fragments. Leaf litter
    A—5 to 14 centimeters (2.0 to 5.5 inches); black (10YR 2/1) rubbed sand; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 3.0 fine and medium roots throughout; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.1, pH meter; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 96P01542
    Bw1—14 to 33 centimeters (5.5 to 13.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) broken face sand; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; 3.0 fine and medium roots throughout; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 96P01543
    Bw2—33 to 49 centimeters (13.0 to 19.3 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face sand; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; 3.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 1 percent fine faint irregular strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout and 1 percent fine distinct irregular pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, pH meter; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 96P01544
    Bw3—49 to 98 centimeters (19.3 to 38.6 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face sand; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; 3.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 2 percent fine distinct irregular pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout and 2 percent medium distinct irregular pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 96P01545
    Bg—98 to 112 centimeters (38.6 to 44.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face sand; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; 3.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 3 percent fine faint irregular pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout and 3 percent fine prominent irregular yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 96P01546
    Ab—112 to 136 centimeters (44.1 to 53.5 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) rubbed sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 3.0 fine and medium roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 96P01547
    Bgb1—136 to 158 centimeters (53.5 to 62.2 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) broken face sand; weak medium and coarse prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 96P01548
    Bgb2—158 to 186 centimeters (62.2 to 73.2 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) broken face sand; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, pH meter. Lab sample # 96P01549. This horizon is stratified with layers (5cm) of black (10YR 2/1) sand at depths below 175 cm.