IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Morley
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1980IN075005
  • User Pedon ID: 1980IN075005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - JY8005
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23679
  • 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: 40.5192917
  • Std. Longitude: -85.0872028
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 24N
  • Range: 13E
  • Section: 19
  • PLSS Details: 195 feet west and 1915 feet south of the northeast corner
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN075—Jay

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Kluess and Hartman
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, illitic, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Morley
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Morley
  • Classificaton Date - 3/12/1980
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Geology: Wisconsin formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/12/1980 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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
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    16

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    AP—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.7; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # JY80051
    B1—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 15 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, clay films on faces of peds and 35 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, organic stains; 2 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # JY80052
    B31T—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 15 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, organic stains and 35 percent brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 3 percent faint light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 2 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # JY80053
    B22T—33 to 43 centimeters (13.0 to 16.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent brown (10YR 5/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent black (N 2/0), moist, iron-manganese masses and 3 percent faint light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 2 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # JY80054
    B3T—43 to 53 centimeters (16.9 to 20.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 70 percent brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent white (10YR 8/1), moist, iron-manganese masses; 2 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.9; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # JY80055
    C—53 to 152 centimeters (20.9 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay loam; strong coarse platy parts to massive; very firm; 35 percent brown (10YR 5/3), moist, pressure faces on horizontal faces of peds and 70 percent very pale brown (10YR 8/2), moist, carbonate coats on horizontal faces of peds; 2 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0. Lab sample # JY80056