IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Morley
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1974IL043001
  • User Pedon ID: 1974IL043001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 74IL043001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 20756
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 41.6907934
  • Std. Longitude: -87.9990650
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 37N
  • Range: 11E
  • Section: 17
  • Location Description: north of borrow pit in stand of crown vetch
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL043—DuPage
  • MLRA: 110—Northern Illinois and Indiana Heavy Till Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL043—DuPage County, Illinois
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41087-F8—Sag Bridge, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JBF, JDA, BWR
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, illitic, mesic Oxyaquic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Morley
  • PSC - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/8/2015
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Morley
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, illitic, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1974
  • Classifier - JBF, JDA, BWR
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: till
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/1974 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • 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
  • Yield Study ID -
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—18

    18—94

    —18—

    —76—
    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

    6

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    214

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL22911
    Bt1—18 to 28 centimeters (7.1 to 11.0 inches); variegated yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay loam; strong fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 20 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL22912
    Bt2—28 to 48 centimeters (11.0 to 18.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay loam; strong medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 50 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine prominent reddish yellow (5YR 6/8), moist, and yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL22913
    Bt3—48 to 64 centimeters (18.9 to 25.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 50 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium prominent red (7.5R 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 1 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL22914
    Bt4—64 to 81 centimeters (25.2 to 31.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL22915
    BCt—81 to 94 centimeters (31.9 to 37.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and brown (10YR 4/3) clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 15 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # IL22916
    Cd—94 to 114 centimeters (37.0 to 44.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loam; structureless massive; firm; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1. Lab sample # IL22917