IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Brownstone
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990WI007037
  • User Pedon ID: S1990WI007037
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1990WI007037
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 95P0442
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 67460
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 46.9341660
  • Std. Longitude: -90.9619446
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 52N
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 35
  • PLSS Details: 330 feet north and 1500 feet east of the southwest corner
  • Location Description: Bayfield County, Wisconsin.
  • State: Wisconsin
  • County: WI007—Bayfield
  • MLRA: 92—Superior Lake Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WI007—Bayfield County, Wisconsin

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Kim Goerg and Terry Kroll
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy-skeletal, mixed, frigid Typic Haplorthods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 37
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Brownstone
  • PSC - 30 to 84 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/27/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Brownstone
  • Taxonomic Class - Sandy-skeletal, mixed, frigid Typic Haplorthod
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/6/1990
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: beach
  • Slope Position: on a slope
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Bedrock: sandstone, noncalcareous
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/6/1990 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: RC-3
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • 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

    ACRU

    BEAL3

    Acer rubrum

    Betula alba

    red maple

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

    ochric epipedon

    albic horizon

    spodic horizon

    5—30

    5—30

    30—58

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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

    4

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    218

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    90

    787

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    5.6

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    Oa—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); black (5YR 2/1) broken face and black (5YR 2/1) rubbed muck; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 10.0 fine and medium roots and 3.0 coarse roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Not sampled.
    E—5 to 30 centimeters (2.0 to 11.8 inches); dark reddish gray (5YR 4/2), pinkish gray (5YR 6/2), dry; cobbly sand; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 3.0 fine to coarse roots; 10 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed igneous-metamorphic-sedimentary fragments and 18 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed igneous-metamorphic-sedimentary fragments and 27 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed igneous-metamorphic-sedimentary fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 95P03247
    Bhs—30 to 38 centimeters (11.8 to 15.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) very gravelly loamy sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 3.0 fine to coarse roots; 10 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed igneous-metamorphic-sedimentary fragments and 15 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed igneous-metamorphic-sedimentary fragments and 31 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed igneous-metamorphic-sedimentary fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 95P03248
    Bs—38 to 58 centimeters (15.0 to 22.8 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) very cobbly sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 10 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed igneous-metamorphic-sedimentary fragments and 23 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed igneous-metamorphic-sedimentary fragments and 27 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed igneous-metamorphic-sedimentary fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 95P03249
    BC—58 to 84 centimeters (22.8 to 33.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) very cobbly sand; single grain; loose; 0.5 fine and medium roots; 10 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed igneous-metamorphic-sedimentary fragments and 14 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed igneous-metamorphic-sedimentary fragments and 29 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed igneous-metamorphic-sedimentary fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 95P03250
    2R—84 centimeters (33.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4); fragments. Not sampled.