IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Elderon
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1978WI115005
  • User Pedon ID: 78WI115005
  • User Site Association ID: MLRA 95 - Shawano County Non MLRA TUDS
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 78P0509
  • Print Date: 4/6/2025

    • 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: 44.9444427
  • Std. Longitude: -89.0291672
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 29N
  • Range: 11E
  • Section: 35
  • PLSS Details: Pedon is 388.7 meters E and 140.3 meters N of the SW corner, NW 1/4
  • State: Wisconsin
  • County: WI115—Shawano

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: G. H., Ray N.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy-skeletal, mixed, frigid Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Elderon
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/4/2006
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Elderon
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, frigid Alfic Haplorthod
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1978
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: kamefield
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1978 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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

    16

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    1Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) exterior, dry; gravelly sandy loam; weak medium granular, and weak fine granular structure; friable; 2.5 fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P02971. Light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) ped faces.; common fine roots
    1B2ir—18 to 38 centimeters (7.1 to 15.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) interior cobbly loamy coarse sand; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P02972. common fine roots
    1B2t—38 to 84 centimeters (15.0 to 33.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) interior cobbly coarse sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots; faint brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds and faint brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films between sand grains; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 78P02973. few very fine roots
    1B3—84 to 112 centimeters (33.1 to 44.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior cobbly loamy coarse sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 fine roots; faint brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds and faint brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films between sand grains; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P02974. few fine roots; continuous - phpvsfiid 213737; continuous - phpvsfiid 213737
    1C—112 to 152 centimeters (44.1 to 59.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior cobbly coarse sand; single grain; loose; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 78P02975