IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lows
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986WI053007
  • User Pedon ID: 86WI053007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0173
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 44.5908318
  • Std. Longitude: -90.9497223
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 24N
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 2
  • PLSS Details: 280 feet north and 1150 feet east of the center
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Wisconsin
  • County: WI053—Jackson
  • MLRA: 89—Wisconsin Central Sands
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-ONA—Onalaska, Wisconsin
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WI053—Jackson County, Wisconsin

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Dale Jakel, Roger Dahl
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lows
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, nonacid Mollic Haplaquepts
  • Classificaton Date - 12/1/1986
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Landform: terrace
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/1/1986 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Unknown
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous 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

    1

    —

    —

    —

    —

    775

    —

    128

    6

    21

    -7

    10

    23

    0

    533

    —

    0000WBRF

    BLACK RIVER FALLS WISCONSIN, WI US

    NOAA
    1A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dry; sandy loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 2.5 fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. common fine roots
    1Eg—15 to 20 centimeters (5.9 to 7.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior sandy loam; moderate medium platy structure; friable; 2.5 fine roots; strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, organic stains in root channels and/or pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. common fine roots
    1Bg1—20 to 46 centimeters (7.9 to 18.1 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) interior sandy loam; 11 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) medium prominent mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 fine roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P00924. common fine roots; common medium prominent 7.5YR58 mottles
    1Bg2—46 to 61 centimeters (18.1 to 24.0 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior sandy loam; 11 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) medium prominent mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P00925. common medium prominent 7.5YR58 mottles
    1BCg—61 to 84 centimeters (24.0 to 33.1 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary.
    1Ch—84 to 152 centimeters (33.1 to 59.8 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior and light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior sand; single grain; loose; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog.