IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Silverhill
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1991WI053002
  • User Pedon ID: S1991WI053002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1991WI053002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 92P0414
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 64653
  • 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: 44.5166664
  • Std. Longitude: -90.9658356
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 24N
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 34
  • PLSS Details: 200 feet south and 1850 feet east of the center
  • Location Description: In an area of Billett-Silverhill complex.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Wisconsin
  • County: WI053—Jackson
  • 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: WI053—Jackson County, Wisconsin

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: John Langton
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, siliceous, active, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Silverhill (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/26/2012
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Silverhill
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, siliceous, active, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • Classificaton Date - 9/28/1990
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Agronomic Feature - close grown annual crop, or crop-fallow
  • Current Crop - alfalfa
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy colluvium over sandy residuum weathered from sandstone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: weakly sandstone, unspecified at 127cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - John Langton
  • Plot or Site Recorder - John Langton

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/28/1990 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: John Langton
  • Air Photo ID: 6
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Hydrology Status: unaltered
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

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    —

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

    lithologic discontinuity

    paralithic contact

    paralithic materials

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    —

    —

    —

    0—20

    20—66

    127—

    —-

    —-

    —-

    —-

    —-

    —-
    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

    2

    —

    —

    335

    —

    315

    899

    —

    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

    —

    0000WBRF

    BLACK RIVER FALLS WISCONSIN, WI US

    NOAA
    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 6.0 very fine roots throughout and 6.0 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots and 6.0 coarse roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P2536
    Bt1—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 6.0 very fine roots throughout and 6.0 fine roots; 26 percent distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P2537
    Bt2—36 to 66 centimeters (14.2 to 26.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) sandy loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots; 51 percent faint dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # 92P2538
    2BC—66 to 81 centimeters (26.0 to 31.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) sand; structureless single grain; loose; few (0.9) fine roots throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # 92P2539
    2C—81 to 127 centimeters (31.9 to 50.0 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) sand; structureless single grain; loose; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P2540
    2Cr—127 to 152 centimeters (50.0 to 59.8 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/3) bedrock; fragments.