IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Nickin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1973WI109001
  • User Pedon ID: S1973WI109001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • 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: 45.0374947
  • Std. Longitude: -92.5043564
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 30N
  • Range: 18W
  • Section: 36
  • Location Description: about 5 miles south and 1.5 miles east of New Richmond; 1,980 feet west and 660 feet north of the southeast corner
  • State: Wisconsin
  • County: WI109—St. Croix
  • MLRA: 90B—Central Wisconsin Thin Loess Dissected Till Plain
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-RHI—Rhinelander, Wisconsin
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WI109—St. Croix County, Wisconsin
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 45092-A5—New Richmond South, Wisconsin

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed over siliceous, active, frigid Typic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Nickin
  • Classificaton Date - 5/30/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Nickin
  • Classificaton Date - 4/1/2006
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy till and/or sandy pedisediment and/or sandy residuum
  • Landform: hill
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/1/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—28

    41—76

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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

    8

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    317

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    762

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    6

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 6.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; abrupt smooth boundary.
    A—20 to 28 centimeters (7.9 to 11.0 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 6.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear wavy boundary.
    Bt1—28 to 41 centimeters (11.0 to 16.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 fine roots throughout; faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear smooth boundary.
    Bt2—41 to 58 centimeters (16.1 to 22.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 fine roots throughout; faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear wavy boundary.
    2Bt3—58 to 76 centimeters (22.8 to 29.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 fine roots throughout; faint clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear wavy boundary. patchy - phpvsfiid 850481; patchy - phpvsfiid 850481
    3Bt4—76 to 86 centimeters (29.9 to 33.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) loamy fine sand; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 2.0 fine roots throughout; clay bridges between sand grains; 5 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; abrupt wavy boundary.
    3C—86 to 152 centimeters (33.9 to 59.8 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) fine sand; single grain; loose; 2 percent by volume flat 2-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8.