IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Northmound
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1992WI019003
  • User Pedon ID: S1992WI019003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Print Date: 1/31/2025

    • 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: 44.6816635
  • Std. Longitude: -90.5342865
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 25N
  • Range: 1W
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: Clark County, Wisconsin; about 3 miles south and 1.5 miles west of Loyal; 600 feet south and 600 feet east of the northwest corner
  • State: Wisconsin
  • County: WI019—Clark
  • MLRA: 90B—Central Wisconsin Thin Loess Dissected Till Plain
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-RHI—Rhinelander, Wisconsin
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WI019—Clark County, Wisconsin
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44090-F5—Loyal West, Wisconsin

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, frigid Haplic Glossudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Northmound
  • Classificaton Date - 5/30/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Northmound
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/2005
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess and/or residuum
  • Landform: monadnock
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • 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

    glossic horizon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    3—13

    28—61

    28—76

    76—

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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

    25

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    —

    408

    —

    775

    —

    128

    6

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    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    Oe—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) mucky peat; weak thin platy structure; nonsticky; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; abrupt smooth boundary.
    A—3 to 13 centimeters (1.2 to 5.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; flaggy silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; very friable; 6.0 very fine roots throughout and 6.0 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots and 6.0 coarse roots; 10 percent by volume flat 2-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume flat 150-?-380 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; abrupt wavy boundary.
    Bw—13 to 28 centimeters (5.1 to 11.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) flaggy silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 6.0 very fine roots throughout and 6.0 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots and 6.0 coarse roots; 10 percent by volume flat 2-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume flat 150-?-380 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear wavy boundary.
    B/E—28 to 61 centimeters (11.0 to 24.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and brown (10YR 5/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; very flaggy silt loam, very flaggy silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots and 2.0 coarse roots; 6 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent by volume flat 2-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume flat 150-?-380 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear wavy boundary.
    2Bt—61 to 76 centimeters (24.0 to 29.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) very flaggy loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.9 very fine roots throughout and 0.9 fine roots; 26 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 20 percent by volume flat 2-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume flat 150-?-380 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0; clear wavy boundary.
    3R—76 centimeters (29.9 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2) bedrock; fragments.