IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Smestad
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1997WI013007
  • User Pedon ID: S1997WI013007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Print Date: 11/22/2024

    • 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: 45.8002701
  • Std. Longitude: -92.5646362
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 38N
  • Range: 18W
  • Section: 11
  • PLSS Details: Burnett County, Wisconsin; about 7 miles northeast of Grantsburg; 1200 feet east and 375 feet south of the northwest corner
  • State: Wisconsin
  • County: WI013—Burnett
  • MLRA: 91—Wisconsin and Minnesota Sandy Outwash
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WI013—Burnett County, Wisconsin
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 45092-G5—Falun, Wisconsin

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy over clayey, mixed over smectitic, superactive, frigid Aquic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Smestad
  • Classificaton Date - 2/6/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Smestad
  • Classificaton Date - 4/1/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy lacustrine deposits and/or loamy lacustrine deposits and/or clayey lacustrine deposits
  • Landform: lake plain
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/1/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—25

    53—216

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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

    1

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    287

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    762

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    120

    5

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), brown (10YR 4/3), dry; loamy fine sand; weak coarse granular structure; friable; 6.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; abrupt smooth boundary.
    Bw1—25 to 41 centimeters (9.8 to 16.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; loamy fine sand; weak medium platy, and weak very fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 2.0 fine roots throughout; 3 percent prominent red (2.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 21 percent coarse prominent reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; clear smooth boundary.
    Bw2—41 to 81 centimeters (16.1 to 31.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; loamy fine sand; weak coarse platy, and weak very fine subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 2.0 fine roots throughout; 1 percent medium prominent red (2.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 21 percent coarse prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; abrupt wavy boundary.
    2Bt—81 to 94 centimeters (31.9 to 37.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) fine sandy loam; weak medium platy, and weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 fine roots throughout; 3 percent fine spherical iron-manganese concretions in matrix and 3 percent medium prominent dark gray (5Y 4/1), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 3 percent medium prominent yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; abrupt wavy boundary.
    3Btg1—94 to 122 centimeters (37.0 to 48.0 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) clay; strong medium prismatic, and strong very fine angular blocky structure; firm; 2.0 fine roots throughout; 6 percent faint gray (5Y 5/1), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 3 percent fine spherical iron-manganese concretions in matrix and 3 percent coarse prominent reddish brown (2.5YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; abrupt wavy boundary.
    3Btg2—122 to 145 centimeters (48.0 to 57.1 inches); 70 percent olive gray (5Y 5/2) and 10 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) and 10 percent dark gray (N 4/), clay; strong fine platy, and strong very fine angular blocky structure; firm; 4 percent faint gray (5Y 5/1), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 3 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; clear wavy boundary.
    3Bkg—145 to 203 centimeters (57.1 to 79.9 inches); 70 percent olive gray (5Y 5/2) and 20 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) and 10 percent dark gray (N 4/), clay; strong fine platy, and strong very fine angular blocky structure; firm; 3 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 1 percent fine spherical white (2.5Y 8/1), moist, carbonate nodules; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2.