IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gale
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1977WI065001
  • User Pedon ID: S1977WI065001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1977WI065001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 78P0042
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45052
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 42.7386093
  • Std. Longitude: -89.8577805
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 3N
  • Range: 5E
  • Section: 11
  • PLSS Details: 606 feet north and 45 feet west of the southeast corner
  • Location Description: about 3 miles north of Argyle.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Wisconsin
  • County: WI065—Lafayette
  • 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: WI065—Lafayette County, Wisconsin

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: George Hudelson, Frank Anderson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Gale
  • PSC - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/15/2007
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gale
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/13/1977
  • Classifier - George Hudelson
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Agronomic Feature - close grown annual crop, or crop-fallow
  • Current Crop - alfalfa
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Peoria silty loess
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: weakly coherent
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/13/1977 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Unknown
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Hydrology Status: unaltered
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    MEDIC

    Medicago

    alfalfa

    forb

    100

    overstory
    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

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    —

    —
    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    paralithic contact

    paralithic materials

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    —

    —

    —

    —

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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

    —

    —

    275.8

    —

    225

    899

    —

    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

    —

    470890

    BLANCHARDVILLE, WI US

    NOAA/COOP
    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; silt loam; weak fine and medium granular, and weak very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots; 1 percent brown (10YR 4/3) worm casts; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, lamotte-morgan; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 78P00288
    Bt1—18 to 28 centimeters (7.1 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 78P00289
    Bt2—28 to 48 centimeters (11.0 to 18.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 78P00290
    Bt3—48 to 71 centimeters (18.9 to 28.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots; brown (10YR 4/3) clay films on faces of peds and in pores and black (10YR 2/1) manganese or iron-manganese stains on faces of peds and in pores and 30 percent light gray (10YR 7/2), dry, silt coats on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 78P00291. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1917192; patchy - phpvsfiid 1917193; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1917192; patchy - phpvsfiid 1917193
    2BC—71 to 79 centimeters (28.0 to 31.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; brown (10YR 4/3) clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, lamotte-morgan; abrupt wavy boundary. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1917194; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1917194
    Cr1—79 to 96 centimeters (31.1 to 37.8 inches); 60 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and 40 percent reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) gravelly loamy sand; massive; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, lamotte-morgan; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P00292
    Cr2—96 to 152 centimeters (37.8 to 59.8 inches); 60 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) and 40 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/8) gravelly loamy sand; massive; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, lamotte-morgan. Lab sample # 78P00293