IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Seaton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1984WI093001
  • User Pedon ID: S1984WI093001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1984WI093001
  • User Site Association ID: Shaunna_skeletonsdoublecheckafterupdateLoamy-Silty Uplands (MN, IA, WI) DSP Project 2021-2024
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - LIMS
  • Lab Pedon # - 84P0319
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 54563
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024
  • 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: 44.6389700
  • Std. Longitude: -92.4570200
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 25N
  • Range: 17W
  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: 350 feet north and 2480 feet west of the center
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Wisconsin
  • County: WI093—Pierce
  • 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: WI093—Pierce County, Wisconsin
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Dave Omernik
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Seaton
  • PSC - 31 to 81 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/14/2022
  • Classifier - Shaunna Repking
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Seaton
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 31 to 81 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/3/1983
  • Classifier - Dave Omernik
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed
  • QA Status: not reviewed


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: Peoria silty loess
  • Landscape: upland
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/3/1983 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Dave Omernik
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - overcast
  • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACRU

    ACSA3

    CORYL

    FRPE

    MORUS

    PRSE2

    QURU

    Acer rubrum

    Acer saccharum

    Corylus

    Fraxinus pennsylvanica

    Morus

    Prunus serotina

    Quercus rubra

    red maple

    sugar maple

    hazelnut

    green ash

    mulberry

    black cherry

    northern red oak

    tree

    tree

    tree

    tree

    tree

    tree

    tree

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    albic horizon

    —-

    —-

    —-

    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

    135

    899

    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

    0010

    RIVER FALLS 1.4 S, WI US

    NOAA

    A—0 to 14 centimeters (0.0 to 5.5 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) broken face and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) rubbed, gray (10YR 5/1) broken face and grayish brown (10YR 5/2) crushed, dry; silt loam; moderate very fine granular, and moderate fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P01696; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    E—14 to 22 centimeters (5.5 to 8.7 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; weak thin platy structure; very friable; many very fine vesicular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P01697; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    EB—22 to 31 centimeters (8.7 to 12.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak medium platy structure; very friable; many very fine vesicular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P01698; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—31 to 43 centimeters (12.2 to 16.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; many very fine and many medium and many fine pores; pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry, and grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, silt coats on vertical faces of peds and dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P01699; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—43 to 71 centimeters (16.9 to 28.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate fine angular blocky structure; friable; many very fine and many medium and many fine pores; brown (10YR 5/3), moist, silica coats on all faces of peds and brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P01700; moist when described; observed in pit, small. some vfabk in upper part of this horizon; cto many depending on face ptn ps 10YR5/3pf silt coats, cftncd 10YR4/3pfs clay films (some faces lack clay)
    Bt3—71 to 100 centimeters (28.0 to 39.4 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak fine prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; friable; many very fine and many medium and many fine pores; brown (10YR 5/3), moist, silica coats on vertical faces of peds and clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P01701; moist when described; observed in pit, small. same silt coats except they are more on vertical pfs and occured a bunches of individual grains (silt size) that appear precipitated in pores. silt coats lack thickness for interfinger
    BC—100 to 143 centimeters (39.4 to 56.3 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and light gray (10YR 7/2) silica coats on vertical faces of peds and brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P01702; moist when described; observed in pit, small. structureless some pedogenic platiness when surface is scrapped accross. 2% coarse fragments (glacial till?) at this depth slight increas in fine sand and vfs. strong or violent effervescent C1d 10YR5/6 spots clear tubes F1d 2.5Y5/2 tubes sharp
    C—143 to 186 centimeters (56.3 to 73.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; structureless massive; very friable; 2 percent by volume mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly acid, pH 6.4, pH meter. Lab sample # 84P01703; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket. structureless some pedogenic platiness when surface is scrapped accross. 2% coarse fragments (glacial till?) at this depth slight increas in fine sand and vfs. strong or violent effervescent C1d 10YR5/6 spots clear tubes F1d 2.5Y5/2 tubes sharp