IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mecan
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1962WI047001
  • User Pedon ID: S1962WI047001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1555
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 35163
  • 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: 43.8644447
  • Std. Longitude: -89.1283340
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 16N
  • Range: 11E
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: SE 1/4, SE 1/4
  • State: Wisconsin
  • County: WI047—Green Lake
  • MLRA: 95—Eastern Wisconsin, Northern Illinois, and Upper Michigan Drift Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WI047—Green Lake County, Wisconsin

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: P.H. Carroll and G. Lee
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Mecan
  • Classificaton Date - 1/27/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mecan
  • Classificaton Date - 8/24/1962
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: recessional moraine
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/24/1962 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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
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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) loamy sand; very friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A12237
    A2—15 to 33 centimeters (5.9 to 13.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loamy sand; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A12238
    B1—33 to 41 centimeters (13.0 to 16.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A12239
    B21—41 to 53 centimeters (16.1 to 20.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) loam, sandy clay loam; weak and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A12240
    B22—53 to 66 centimeters (20.9 to 26.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A12241
    B23—66 to 86 centimeters (26.0 to 33.9 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) and reddish brown (5YR 4/4) rubbed loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A12242
    B3—86 to 99 centimeters (33.9 to 39.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) and reddish brown (5YR 4/4) rubbed loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A12243
    2BC—99 to 122 centimeters (39.0 to 48.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) sandy loam; weak thin platy structure; friable; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A12244
    2C1—122 to 152 centimeters (48.0 to 59.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) loamy sand; weak thin platy structure; friable; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A12245
    2C2—152 to 191 centimeters (59.8 to 75.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) loamy sand; weak thin platy structure; friable; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A12246