IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Seaton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1983WI093022
  • User Pedon ID: 83WI093063
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1983WI093022
  • User Site Association ID: Loamy-Silty Uplands (MN, IA, WI) DSP Project 2021-2024
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 84P0098
  • Print Date: 4/26/2025

    • 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: 44.6394990
  • Std. Longitude: -92.4553122
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 25N
  • Range: 17W
  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: 530 feet north and 2030 feet west of the center
  • Location Description: 144 feet west along south end of cornstrip them 14 rows uphill
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Wisconsin
  • County: WI093—Pierce
  • MLRA: 105—Upper Mississippi River Bedrock Controlled Uplands and Valleys
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-ONA—Onalaska, Wisconsin
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WI093—Pierce County, Wisconsin

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Omernik and G. Hudelson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 63
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Seaton
  • PSC - 33 to 83 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/4/2006
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Seaton
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludalf
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1983
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Peoria silty calcareous loess
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1983 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Dave Omernik
  • 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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—33

    33—99

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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

    4

    —

    —

    —

    —

    180

    899

    —

    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

    —

    0010

    RIVER FALLS 1.4 S, WI US

    NOAA
    1Ap—0 to 33 centimeters (0.0 to 13.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior and brown (10YR 4/3) crushed, light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior, dry; silt loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 5.5 medium roots throughout; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P00496. many medium roots throughout
    1Bt1—33 to 41 centimeters (13.0 to 16.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 5.5 fine roots throughout; 55 percent brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P00497. many clay films surface features on faces of peds; many fine roots throughout; few medium roots throughout; continuous - phpvsfiid 216484; continuous - phpvsfiid 216484
    1Bt2—41 to 58 centimeters (16.1 to 22.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 5.5 fine roots throughout; 55 percent brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent iron-manganese masses; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P00498. few very fine soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; many clay films surface features on faces of peds; many fine roots throughout; few medium roots throughout; continuous - phpvsfiid 216485; continuous - phpvsfiid 216485
    1Bt3—58 to 72 centimeters (22.8 to 28.3 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 5.5 fine roots throughout; 55 percent brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent iron-manganese masses; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P00499. In areas peds break horizontally into moderately thick plates.; few very fine soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; many clay films surface features on faces of peds; many fine roots throughout; few medium roots throughout; continuous - phpvsfiid 216486; continuous - phpvsfiid 216486
    1Bt4—72 to 99 centimeters (28.3 to 39.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silt loam; weak medium prismatic, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 5.5 fine roots throughout; 37 percent brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent iron-manganese masses; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P00500. few very fine soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; common clay films surface features on faces of peds; many fine roots throughout; continuous - phpvsfiid 216487; continuous - phpvsfiid 216487
    1BC—99 to 170 centimeters (39.0 to 66.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior silt loam; 1 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) fine faint and 11 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine distinct mottles; weak coarse prismatic structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 11 percent fine iron-manganese masses; fragments. Lab sample # 84P00501. 15 percent Bt material mixed in Ap.; common fine soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; few fine roots throughout; common fine distinct 10YR52 mottles; few fine faint 10YR46 mottles