IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Minocqua
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1979WI073004
  • User Pedon ID: S1979WI073004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1979WI073004
  • User Site Association ID: Shaunna_skeletonsdoublecheckafterupdate
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - LIMS
  • Lab Pedon # - 80P0059
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47289
  • Print Date: 4/22/2025

    • 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: 44.8681100
  • Std. Longitude: -89.2243100
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 28N
  • Range: 10E
  • Section: 36
  • PLSS Details: 925 feet south and 100 feet west of the northeast corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Wisconsin
  • County: WI073—Marathon
  • MLRA: 90A—Wisconsin and Minnesota Thin Loess and Till
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-RHI—Rhinelander, Wisconsin
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WI073—Marathon County, Wisconsin

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: William Fiala, Kim Kidney, David Buss, Gary Starzinski, RCB
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, nonacid, frigid Typic Endoaquepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Minocqua
  • Classificaton Date - 7/7/1978
  • Classifier - Bill Fiala
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rib
  • Taxonomic Class - Mollic Haplaquepts
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/7/1978
  • Classifier - Bill Fiala
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Current Crop - smooth bromegrass
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty over sandy and gravelly outwash
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/7/1978 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Bill Fiala
  • 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

    BRIN2

    Bromus inermis

    smooth brome

    —

    —

    —
    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

    1.5

    —

    —

    —

    —

    135

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    Ap—0 to 28 centimeters (0.0 to 11.0 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 80P00262. some mixing of A2 1/2-1" layers of A2 wtih Ap (10YR6/2)
    Eg—28 to 48 centimeters (11.0 to 18.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; silt loam; gray (10YR 6/1) medium faint and yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) medium prominent mottles; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P00263
    Bg—48 to 71 centimeters (18.9 to 28.0 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) loam; yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) medium prominent mottles; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P00264
    2BC—71 to 91 centimeters (28.0 to 35.8 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) gravelly sandy loam; grayish brown (10YR 5/2) medium faint and yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) medium prominent mottles; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent by volume nonflat 2-20-76 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; neutral, pH 6.9, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P00265
    2C—91 to 152 centimeters (35.8 to 59.8 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) gravelly coarse sand; structureless single grain; loose; 20 percent by volume nonflat 2-20-76 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; neutral, pH 7.1, unspecified.