IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Morley
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1979IN009006
  • User Pedon ID: 1979IN009006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - BL7906
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 22984
  • Print Date: 6/3/2024
  • 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: 40.3889722
  • Std. Longitude: -85.4297111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 22N
  • Range: 10E
  • Section: 6
  • PLSS Details: 1055 feet west and 1520 feet south of the northeast CORNER
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN009—Blackford
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Hartman
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Morley
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Morley
  • Classificaton Date - 4/25/1979
  • 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: 4/25/1979 (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 -
  • 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

    AP—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; clay loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # BL79061
    B2T—20 to 48 centimeters (7.9 to 18.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent white (10YR 8/1), moist, iron-manganese masses and 1 percent distinct reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # BL79062
    B3T—48 to 64 centimeters (18.9 to 25.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent distinct brownish yellow (10YR 6/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 2 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # BL79063
    C—64 to 152 centimeters (25.2 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay loam; strong medium platy structure; very firm; 10 percent white (10YR 8/1), moist, iron-manganese masses; 2 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.5. Lab sample # BL79064