IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Moberg
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1981WI073020
  • User Pedon ID: S1981WI073020
  • 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: 44.8582188
  • Std. Longitude: -89.8234293
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 28N
  • Range: 6E
  • Section: 32
  • PLSS Details: Marathon County, Wisconsin; about 5 miles south of Marathon; 1500 feet east and 50 feet north of the southwest 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-G7—Halder, Wisconsin

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy-skeletal, mixed, frigid Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Moberg
  • Classificaton Date - 5/30/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Moberg
  • Classificaton Date - 4/1/1999
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/1/1999 (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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—10

    10—51

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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

    10

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    381

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    813

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    7

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; gravelly silt loam; moderate very fine granular structure; friable; 6.0 fine roots throughout; 15 percent by volume angular 2-?-75 millimeter granite fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; abrupt wavy boundary.
    Bw—10 to 30 centimeters (3.9 to 11.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) gravelly silt loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 fine roots throughout; 30 percent by volume angular 2-?-75 millimeter granite fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear wavy boundary.
    2BC—30 to 51 centimeters (11.8 to 20.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) very gravelly sandy loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.9 fine roots throughout; 60 percent by volume angular 2-?-75 millimeter granite fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear wavy boundary.
    2C—51 to 152 centimeters (20.1 to 59.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) extremely gravelly loamy coarse sand; single grain; loose; 80 percent by volume 20-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8.