IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Freeon
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988WI119006
  • User Pedon ID: 88WI119006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 89P0605
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61705
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 45.3419456
  • Std. Longitude: -90.8036118
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 33N
  • Range: 4W
  • Section: 13
  • PLSS Details: 2500 feet N and 300 feet W of the SE corner
  • Location Description: Taylor County, WI.
  • Map Unit: P—Pits
  • State: Wisconsin
  • County: WI119—Taylor
  • MLRA: 90—Central Wisconsin and Minnesota Thin Loess and Till
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WI119—Taylor County, Wisconsin

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. Weihrouch, R. Dahl
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, frigid Oxyaquic Glossudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Freeon
  • PSC - 33 to 74 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Freeon
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed Typic Glossoboralf
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1988
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: drumlin
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: head slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1988 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • 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

    albic horizon

    argillic horizon

    0—33

    8—33

    33—74

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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

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    390

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    180

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 5.5 very fine and fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P03364. 4; many very fine and fine roots
    E1—8 to 15 centimeters (3.1 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; silt loam; moderate medium platy structure; friable; 5.5 fine and medium roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P03365. 1% gravel; many fine and medium roots
    E2—15 to 23 centimeters (5.9 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; silt loam; moderate thick platy structure; friable; 5.5 fine roots between peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P03366. 2% gravel; many fine roots between peds
    E—23 to 33 centimeters (9.1 to 13.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; silt loam; weak medium platy structure; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P03367. 3% gravel
    B—23 to 33 centimeters (9.1 to 13.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P03367. 3% gravel
    2B—33 to 53 centimeters (13.0 to 20.9 inches); 80 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) loam; 11 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) fine distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P03368. 5% gravel; common fine distinct 7.5YR46 mottles
    2E—33 to 53 centimeters (13.0 to 20.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; loam; weak thin platy structure; friable; 1 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P03368. 5% gravel
    2Bt—53 to 74 centimeters (20.9 to 29.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) loam; 11 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) fine and medium prominent mottles; strong medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent distinct dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 2 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P03369. 10% gravel; few clay films surface features on faces of peds; common fine and medium prominent 7.5YR46 mottles; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 224181; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 224181
    2Cd—74 to 152 centimeters (29.1 to 59.8 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) sandy loam; massive; firm; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 89P03370. 15% gravel