IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Morocco
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1981IN049002
  • User Pedon ID: S1981IN049002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - FU8102
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23538
  • User Project ID: 2017GRR001
  • Project Name: SDJR - MLRA 98 - Morocco loamy sand, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • Print Date: 5/31/2024

    • 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: 41.1416250
  • Std. Longitude: -86.3844611
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 31N
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 14
  • PLSS Details: 2300 feet west and 300 feet south of the northeast corner
  • Location Description: Aubbeenaubbee Township
  • Map Unit: Mu—Morocco loamy sand, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN049—Fulton
  • MLRA: 98—Southern Michigan and Northern Indiana Drift Plains
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-GRP—Grand Rapids, Michigan
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IN049—Fulton County, Indiana
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41086-B4—Culver, Indiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Franklin Furr and William Schumacher
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mixed, mesic Aquic Udipsamments
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Morocco
  • 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 - 4/21/1981
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Current Crop - corn
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/21/1981 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Furr and Schumacher
  • 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
    • 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

    —

    0—25

    25—203

    25—122

    25—152

    —-

    —25—

    —178—

    —97—

    —127—
    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

    —

    —

    227.9

    —

    983

    —

    —

    9.9

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; loamy sand; weak fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # FU81021
    Bw1—25 to 51 centimeters (9.8 to 20.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) sand; single grain; loose; 1 percent faint light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions and 3 percent prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # FU81022
    Bw2—51 to 71 centimeters (20.1 to 28.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) sand; single grain; loose; 1 percent faint grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions and 21 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 2 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # FU81023
    Bw3—71 to 97 centimeters (28.0 to 38.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) sand; single grain; loose; 21 percent prominent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions; 2 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # FU81024
    C1—97 to 122 centimeters (38.2 to 48.0 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) sand; single grain; loose; 1 percent faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # FU81025
    C2—122 to 152 centimeters (48.0 to 59.8 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) sand; single grain; loose; 1 percent distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions and 3 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions; 2 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # FU81026
    C3—152 to 178 centimeters (59.8 to 70.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) sand; single grain; loose; 2 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # FU81027
    C4—178 to 203 centimeters (70.1 to 79.9 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) sand; single grain; loose; 2 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, pH meter. Lab sample # FU81028