IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Morocco
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • Local Phase: buried
  • User Site ID: S1996IN073006
  • User Pedon ID: S1996IN073006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 96P0200
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 68278
  • 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: 41.1555901
  • Std. Longitude: -86.9365005
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 31N
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 12
  • PLSS Details: NW 1/4 NE1/4
  • Location Description: Walker Township; Jasper-Pulaski State Game Preserve
  • Map Unit: Hp—Houghton muck, disintegration moraine, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN073—Jasper
  • 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: IN073—Jasper County, Indiana
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41086-B8—San Pierre, Indiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Bill Hosteter, Scot Haley
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mixed, mesic Aquic Udipsamments
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Morocco
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/31/2017
  • Classifier - Jon Quisler
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Morocco-Like
  • Taxonomic Class - Mixed Aquic Udipsamments
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/11/1996
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: eolian deposits derived from mixed
  • Landscape: dune field
  • Landform: dune
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Drainage Pattern: deranged
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/11/1996 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Bill Hosteter and Scot Haley
  • Air Photo ID: 22
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: wind and water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    endosaturation

    ochric epipedon

    aquic conditions

    reduced matrix

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    redox concentrations

    —

    0—16

    60—116

    60—116

    72—116

    86—116

    —-

    —16—

    —56—

    —56—

    —44—

    —30—
    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

    4

    —

    —

    214

    —

    90

    975

    —

    —

    10

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    O—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); fragments. Leaf litter.
    A—5 to 16 centimeters (2.0 to 6.3 inches); black (10YR 2/1) rubbed sand; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 21.0 fine and medium roots throughout and 3.0 coarse roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary.
    B/A—16 to 26 centimeters (6.3 to 10.2 inches); 75 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face and 25 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1) rubbed sand; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; 3.0 fine and medium roots throughout; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Horizon exists as distinct vertical entities.
    A/B—26 to 36 centimeters (10.2 to 14.2 inches); 80 percent black (10YR 2/1) rubbed and 20 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1) broken face sand; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 21.0 fine and medium roots throughout; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Horizon interpreted as a degrading A horizon.
    Ab—36 to 60 centimeters (14.2 to 23.6 inches); black (N 2/0) rubbed loamy sand; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; 3.0 fine and medium roots throughout; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.1, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 96P01598
    Bg/Ab—60 to 72 centimeters (23.6 to 28.3 inches); 60 percent gray (10YR 5/1) broken face and 40 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1) rubbed fine sand; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; 3.0 fine and medium roots; fragments; gradual wavy boundary.
    Bgb1—72 to 86 centimeters (28.3 to 33.9 inches); gray (2.5Y 6/1) broken face fine sand; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; 3.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 2 percent fine distinct irregular dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, masses of reduced iron throughout and 2 percent medium distinct irregular dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, masses of reduced iron throughout; fragments; gradual wavy boundary.
    Bgb2—86 to 116 centimeters (33.9 to 45.7 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) broken face fine sand; 3 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) fine and medium distinct irregular and 3 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine and medium prominent cylindrical mottles; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; 2 percent fine distinct irregular pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout and 2 percent fine prominent cylindrical yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout and 2 percent medium distinct irregular pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout and 2 percent medium prominent cylindrical yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments.