IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mosinee
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1981WI073006
  • User Pedon ID: S1981WI073006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Print Date: 4/3/2025

    • 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: 44.7652740
  • Std. Longitude: -89.6659241
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 26N
  • Range: 7E
  • Section: 3
  • PLSS Details: Marathon County, Wisconsin; about 3 miles north of Knowlton; 2,500 feet south and 1,000 feet east of the northwest corner
  • State: Wisconsin
  • County: WI073—Marathon
  • MLRA: 90B—Central Wisconsin Thin Loess Dissected Till Plain
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-RHI—Rhinelander, Wisconsin
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WI073—Marathon County, Wisconsin
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44089-G6—Mosinee, Wisconsin

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, frigid Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Mosinee
  • Classificaton Date - 5/30/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mosinee
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/2005
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: igneous, unspecified at 107cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—18

    18—107

    107—

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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

    3

    —

    —

    367

    —

    826

    —

    —

    6

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; sandy loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.9 fine roots throughout; 1 percent by volume angular 75-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 12 percent by volume angular 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; abrupt smooth boundary.
    Bw1—18 to 36 centimeters (7.1 to 14.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) gravelly sandy loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.9 fine roots throughout; 1 percent by volume angular 75-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 25 percent by volume angular 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear wavy boundary.
    Bw2—36 to 48 centimeters (14.2 to 18.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) very gravelly sandy loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.9 fine roots throughout; 2 percent by volume angular 75-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 33 percent by volume angular 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear wavy boundary.
    Bw3—48 to 76 centimeters (18.9 to 29.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) very gravelly sandy loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.9 fine roots throughout; 6 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on rock fragments; 5 percent by volume angular 75-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 50 percent by volume angular 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; gradual wavy boundary.
    Bw4—76 to 107 centimeters (29.9 to 42.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) extremely gravelly sandy loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; 6 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on rock fragments; 10 percent by volume angular 75-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 75 percent by volume angular 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; abrupt irregular boundary.
    R—107 centimeters (42.1 inches); bedrock; fragments.