IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Morley
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1955IN003017
  • User Pedon ID: S1955IN003017
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1955IN003017
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A5268
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42515
  • 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: 40.9930763
  • Std. Longitude: -85.0565948
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 29N
  • Range: 13E
  • Section: 3
  • PLSS Details: SW 1/4 of SW 1/4
  • Location Description: Allen County, Indiana. The sample site is 990 feet north, 125 feet east of southwest corner of Sec. 3.
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN003—Allen
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IN003—Allen County, Indiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: James V. Anderson
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 17
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Morley
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1955
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: till plain
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1955 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    LESPE

    Lespedeza

    lespedeza

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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

    3

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 40A39588
    B1—13 to 18 centimeters (5.1 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silty clay loam; 1 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine faint mottles; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard when dry; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 40A39589
    B21t—18 to 36 centimeters (7.1 to 14.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silty clay; weak medium prismatic parts to strong medium angular blocky structure; extremely firm; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 40A39590
    B22t—36 to 61 centimeters (14.2 to 24.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silty clay; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) fine faint mottles; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate coarse angular blocky structure; extremely firm; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 40A39591
    C—61 centimeters (24.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silty clay loam; 3 percent light gray (10YR 7/2) medium prominent mottles; weak medium angular blocky structure; very firm; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 40A39592