IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Morocco
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990IN039008
  • User Pedon ID: S1990IN039008
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1990IN039008
  • Transect:
  • Transect Stop Number - 6
  • Transect Interval - 55.0
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P0023
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 63070
  • User Project ID: 2017GRR001
  • Project Name: SDJR - MLRA 98 - Morocco loamy sand, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • 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: 41.7583351
  • Std. Longitude: -85.9427795
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 38N
  • Range: 5E
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: 1260 feet E and 470 feet S of the NW corner
  • Location Description: Osolo Township, Elkhart County, Indiana
  • Map Unit: MvkA—Morocco loamy sand, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN039—Elkhart
  • 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: IN039—Elkhart County, Indiana
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41085-G8—Adamsville, Michigan

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Rex Brock and Franklin Furr
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy, mixed, mesic Aquic Humudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Morocco
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/2/2017
  • Classifier - Jon Quisler
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bourbon
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed Aquollic Hapludalfs
  • PSC - 20 to 71 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/26/1990
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Wisconsinan sandy glaciofluvial deposits
  • Landscape: river valley, outwash plain
  • Landform: outwash terrace on outwash plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Pattern: deranged
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1990 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Rex Brock and Franklin Furr
  • 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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    TRIFO

    Trifolium

    clover

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    endosaturation

    mollic epipedon

    aquic conditions

    cambic horizon

    redox concentrations

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    reduced matrix

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    0—20

    20—203

    20—46

    20—135

    20—203

    104—135

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    —20—

    —183—

    —26—

    —115—

    —183—

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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

    1

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    238.5

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    0

    965

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    9.7

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed sandy loam; mottles; moderate medium granular structure; friable; rapid permeability; common (3.0) very fine and fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P00144; moist when described;
    Bw1—20 to 46 centimeters (7.9 to 18.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; moderately rapid permeability; few (1.0) very fine and fine roots; 11 percent medium faint grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, masses of reduced iron and 11 percent coarse distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P00145; moist when described;
    Bw2—46 to 74 centimeters (18.1 to 29.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior loamy sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; rapid permeability; 11 percent medium distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 30 percent medium distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P00146; moist when described;
    Bw3—74 to 89 centimeters (29.1 to 35.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior loamy sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; rapid permeability; 11 percent medium distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, masses of reduced iron and 11 percent medium faint brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P00147; moist when described;
    Bw4—89 to 104 centimeters (35.0 to 40.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior loamy sand; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; rapid permeability; 11 percent coarse distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, masses of reduced iron and 11 percent coarse distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P0014148; moist when described;
    Bg—104 to 135 centimeters (40.9 to 53.1 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior loamy sand; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; rapid permeability; 11 percent medium prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 11 percent medium prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 30 percent coarse prominent dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P00149; moist when described;
    BC—135 to 165 centimeters (53.1 to 65.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior sandy loam; massive; friable; rapid permeability; 30 percent medium prominent gray (10YR 6/1), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P00150; moist when described;
    2C—165 to 203 centimeters (65.0 to 79.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior loamy sand; single grain; loose; very rapid permeability; 30 percent medium distinct gray (10YR 5/1), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, pH meter. Lab sample # 91P00151; moist when described;