IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Seaton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1983WI093023
  • User Pedon ID: 83WI093064
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1983WI093023
  • 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 # - 84P0099
  • 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: 44.6396033
  • Std. Longitude: -92.4529713
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 25N
  • Range: 17W
  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: 550 feet north and 1420 feet west of the center
  • Location Description: 160 feet south from road ditch in corn field edge along west top edge of corn strip then 8 rows downhill to plot center
  • 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 #: 64
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Seaton
  • PSC - 27 to 77 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 - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Peoria silty calcareous loess
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: valley side
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • 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—27

    27—117

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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

    9

    —

    —

    —

    —

    158

    899

    —

    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

    —

    0010

    RIVER FALLS 1.4 S, WI US

    NOAA
    1Ap—0 to 27 centimeters (0.0 to 10.6 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior and brown (10YR 4/3) crushed, light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior, dry; silt loam; 20 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 2.5 medium roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P00502. common very fine and fine roots; common medium roots
    1Bt1—27 to 52 centimeters (10.6 to 20.5 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silt loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 55 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P00503. Thin strata of 10YR 4/3 parts to plates due to deposition.; many clay films surface features on faces of peds; common very fine and fine roots; continuous - phpvsfiid 216488; continuous - phpvsfiid 216488
    1Bt2—52 to 80 centimeters (20.5 to 31.5 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 37 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, skeletans on faces of peds and 55 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P00504. many clay films surface features on faces of peds; common skeletans (sand or silt) surface features on faces of peds; common very fine and fine roots; continuous - phpvsfiid 216489; patchy - phpvsfiid 216490; continuous - phpvsfiid 216489; patchy - phpvsfiid 216490
    1Bt3—80 to 117 centimeters (31.5 to 46.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silt loam; 11 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; weak medium prismatic structure; friable; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 37 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, skeletans on faces of peds and 55 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist, clay films; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P00505. many clay films surface features; common skeletans (sand or silt) surface features on faces of peds; few very fine and fine roots; common fine distinct 10YR56 mottles; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 216491; patchy - phpvsfiid 216492; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 216491; patchy - phpvsfiid 216492
    1BC—117 to 163 centimeters (46.1 to 64.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silt loam; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) fine faint and 11 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; massive; friable; 0.5 very fine roots; 37 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds and 37 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, skeletans on vertical faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # 84P00506. common clay films surface features on vertical faces of peds; common skeletans (sand or silt) surface features on vertical faces of peds; few very fine roots; common fine distinct 10YR56 mottles; few fine faint 10YR54 mottles; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 216493; patchy - phpvsfiid 216494; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 216493; patchy - phpvsfiid 216494