IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Loyal
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1989WI119003
  • User Pedon ID: S1989WI119003
  • User Site Association ID: MLRA 90B - Loyal Catena DSM Spatial Update
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 90P0056
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61989
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 45.0413895
  • Std. Longitude: -90.2202759
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 30N
  • Range: 2E
  • Section: 35
  • PLSS Details: 2550 feet S and 700 feet W of the NE corner
  • Location Description: Taylor County, WI.
  • Map Unit: 355B—Loyal silt loam, 1 to 6 percent slopes
  • State: Wisconsin
  • County: WI119—Taylor
  • MLRA: 90—Central Wisconsin and Minnesota Thin Loess and Till
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WI119—Taylor County, Wisconsin

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. Weihrouch
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Haplic Glossudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Loyal
  • PSC - 56 to 81 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Loyal
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed Typic Glossoboralf
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/8/1989
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: ground moraine
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/8/1989 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 1CC-1
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • 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

    albic horizon

    redox concentrations

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—46

    25—46

    25—81

    46—81

    56—152

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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

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    440

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    45

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; very friable; 21.0 fine and medium roots; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P00361
    E—25 to 36 centimeters (9.8 to 14.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; 21 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium prominent mottles; moderate thick platy structure; very friable; 21.0 fine and medium roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P00362
    E/B—36 to 46 centimeters (14.2 to 18.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) and 80 percent brown (10YR 5/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam, silt loam; 5 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) fine and 5 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium prominent mottles; moderate medium platy, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 5.0 fine roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P00363
    B/E—46 to 56 centimeters (18.1 to 22.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) and 70 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and 21 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) medium prominent mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky, and weak fine platy structure; friable; 1.0 fine roots; 10 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/3) clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P00364
    2Bt—56 to 81 centimeters (22.0 to 31.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) gravelly loam; 5 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) fine prominent mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 30 percent prominent reddish brown (5YR 4/3) clay films on faces of peds and in pores and 30 percent prominent light gray (10YR 7/2) coats on faces of peds and in pores; 2 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P00365
    2C—81 to 152 centimeters (31.9 to 59.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) gravelly sandy loam; massive; firm; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 90P00366