IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Morocco
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1972IN099008
  • User Pedon ID: S1972IN099008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - MS7208
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 22376
  • User Project ID: 2017GRR001
  • Project Name: SDJR - MLRA 98 - Morocco loamy sand, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • Print Date: 6/1/2024

    • 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: 41.1787944
  • Std. Longitude: -86.4542306
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 32N
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 31
  • PLSS Details: 2400 feet west and 2639 feet north of the southeast corner
  • Location Description: Union Township
  • Map Unit: BsxA—Brems-Morocco loamy sands, 0 to 1 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN099—Marshall
  • MLRA: 98—Southern Michigan and Northern Indiana Drift Plains
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-GRP—Grand Rapids, Michigan
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IN099—Marshall County, Indiana
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41086-B4—Culver, Indiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Persinger and Franzmeier
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mixed, mesic Oxyaquic Udipsamments
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Morocco
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/26/2017
  • Classifier - Jon Quisler
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Morocco
  • Classificaton Date - 10/19/1972
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Wisconsinan sandy glaciofluvial deposits
  • Landscape: ice-margin complex
  • Landform: glacial drainage channel
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Drainage Pattern: deranged
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Geology: Wisconsin formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/19/1972 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Persinger and Franzmeier
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - culturally induced barren
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    endosaturation

    ochric epipedon

    aquic conditions

    redox concentrations

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    0—23

    43—305

    43—196

    —-

    —23—

    —262—

    —153—
    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

    1

    —

    —

    223.6

    —

    986

    —

    —

    9.9

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) loamy sand; weak coarse granular structure; very friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MS72081
    Bw1—23 to 43 centimeters (9.1 to 16.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) sand; single grain; loose; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, pH meter; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # MS72082
    Bw2—43 to 74 centimeters (16.9 to 29.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) sand; single grain; loose; 1 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, pH meter; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # MS72083
    Bw3—74 to 127 centimeters (29.1 to 50.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) sand; single grain; loose; 3 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent prominent yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese concretions and 10 percent prominent black (5Y 2/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, pH meter; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # MS72084
    Bw4—127 to 165 centimeters (50.0 to 65.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) fine sand; single grain; loose; 1 percent prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 1 percent prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, pH meter; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # MS72085
    C1—165 to 196 centimeters (65.0 to 77.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) sand; single grain; loose; 1 percent faint brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, pH meter; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # MS72086
    C2—196 to 218 centimeters (77.2 to 85.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) fine sand; single grain; loose; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MS72087
    C3—218 to 305 centimeters (85.8 to 120.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) gravelly sand; single grain; loose; 25 percent by volume 2-39-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, pH meter. Lab sample # MS72088