IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Morocco
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1978IN073001
  • User Pedon ID: S1978IN073001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - JR7801
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23225
  • 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: 41.1454667
  • Std. Longitude: -87.2600083
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 31N
  • Range: 7W
  • Section: 7
  • PLSS Details: 270 feet north and 950 feet east of the southwest CORNER
  • Location Description: Keener Township
  • Map Unit: Mu—Morocco loamy sand, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN073—Jasper
  • MLRA: 98—Southern Michigan and Northern Indiana Drift Plains
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-GRP—Grand Rapids, Michigan
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41087-B3—Shelby, Indiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Benjamin Smallwood and Thomas Hunt
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mixed, mesic Aquic Udipsamments
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Morocco (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/27/2017
  • Classifier - Jon Quisler
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Morocco
  • Classificaton Date - 10/26/1978
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Wisconsinan eolian sands
  • Landform: interdune on dune field on sand sheet on outwash plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Drainage Pattern: artificial
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Geology: Wisconsin formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/26/1978 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Smallwood and Hunt
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    reduced matrix

    —

    0—23

    23—152

    23—152

    23—152

    56—89

    —-

    —23—

    —129—

    —129—

    —129—

    —33—
    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

    0.5

    —

    —

    209.8

    —

    992

    —

    —

    9.9

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; loamy sand; weak fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # JR78011
    Bw1—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) loamy fine sand; single grain; loose; 1 percent prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 3 percent distinct light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, iron depletions; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # JR78012
    Bw2—36 to 56 centimeters (14.2 to 22.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) loamy fine sand; single grain; loose; 3 percent prominent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # JR78013
    Bg2—56 to 89 centimeters (22.0 to 35.0 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2) fine sand; single grain; loose; 21 percent prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, pH meter; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # JR78014
    B'w1—89 to 127 centimeters (35.0 to 50.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4) fine sand; single grain; loose; 3 percent distinct light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, iron depletions and 12 percent prominent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, pH meter. Lab sample # JR78015
    B'w2—127 to 152 centimeters (50.0 to 59.8 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4) fine sand; single grain; loose; 3 percent distinct light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, iron depletions and 12 percent prominent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH meter. Lab sample # JR78016