IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Perote
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1996WI078642
  • User Pedon ID: S1996WI078642
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Print Date: 4/21/2025

    • 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: 44.9688873
  • Std. Longitude: -88.5786133
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 29N
  • Range: 16E
  • Section: 29
  • PLSS Details: Menominee County, Wisconsin; about 6 miles northeast of Keshena; 2,340 feet west and 1,070 feet south of the northeast corner
  • State: Wisconsin
  • County: WI078—Menominee
  • MLRA: 94B—Michigan Eastern Upper Peninsula Sandy Glacial Deposits
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-RHI—Rhinelander, Wisconsin
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WI078—Menominee County, Wisconsin
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44088-H5—Legend Lake, Wisconsin

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, active, frigid Haplic Glossudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Perote
  • Classificaton Date - 5/30/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Perote
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/2003
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy till and/or sandy outwash
  • Landform: moraine
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/2003 (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

    glossic horizon

    argillic horizon

    28—74

    41—130

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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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    —

    296

    —

    775

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    128

    6

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    Oa—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); black (7.5YR 2/1) muck; weak medium granular structure; very friable; 6.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; abrupt wavy boundary.
    Bw1—5 to 10 centimeters (2.0 to 3.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 6.0 fine roots throughout; 2 percent by volume subrounded 75-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 3 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; abrupt wavy boundary.
    Bw2—10 to 28 centimeters (3.9 to 11.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 6.0 fine roots throughout; 2 percent by volume subrounded 75-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 7 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear wavy boundary.
    E/B—28 to 41 centimeters (11.0 to 16.1 inches); 70 percent brown (10YR 5/3) and 30 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; fine sandy loam, fine sandy loam; weak medium platy, and moderate fine angular blocky structure; very friable; 2.0 fine roots throughout; 6 percent distinct dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent by volume subrounded 75-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 3 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear wavy boundary.
    B/E—41 to 74 centimeters (16.1 to 29.1 inches); 80 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) and 20 percent brown (10YR 5/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; loam, sandy loam; moderate fine angular blocky, and weak medium platy structure; firm; 2.0 fine roots throughout; 51 percent distinct dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent by volume subrounded 75-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 2 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; gradual wavy boundary.
    Bt1—74 to 99 centimeters (29.1 to 39.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 0.9 fine roots throughout; 26 percent distinct dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 51 percent prominent pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, sand coats on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent by volume subrounded 75-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 3 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; gradual wavy boundary.
    Bt2—99 to 130 centimeters (39.0 to 51.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) fine sandy loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak coarse angular blocky structure; friable; 0.9 fine roots throughout; 6 percent distinct dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 26 percent distinct pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, sand coats on vertical faces of peds and 51 percent distinct dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist, clay films on surfaces along pores; 1 percent by volume subrounded 75-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 3 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; abrupt smooth boundary.
    2C—130 to 157 centimeters (51.2 to 61.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) stratified stratified sand to coarse sand; single grain; loose; 9 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6.