IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Orion
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2000WI063018
  • User Pedon ID: S2000WI063018
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2000WI063018
  • User Site Association ID: Shaunna_skeletonsdoublecheckafterupdate
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - LIMS
  • Lab Pedon # - 01P0240
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 13072
  • User Project ID: 10-ONA_*Archived
  • Project Name: MLRA 105 and MLRA 95B - SoLIM Project
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024
  • 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: 43.9881516
  • Std. Longitude: -90.9523163
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 6.00
  • Township: 18N
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 35
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Wisconsin
  • County: WI063—La Crosse
  • 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: WI063—La Crosse County, Wisconsin
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43090-H8—Bangor, Wisconsin
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Donna Ferren Guy, Duane Simonson, Ned English, A-Xing, Xun Shi, Feng Qi
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, nonacid, mesic Aquic Udifluvents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, brief description
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC 4.2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Orion
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/26/2012
  • Classifier - Donna Ferren Guy
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Orion
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, nonacid, mesic Aquic Udifluvents
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/21/2000
  • Classifier - Donna Ferren Guy
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Agronomic Feature - crop row on bed or ridge
  • Current Crop - corn
  • Hydric: yes
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed
  • QA Status: not reviewed


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty alluvium
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown
  • VEGETATION

  • Vegplot Text Note(s): A scan of the original data (i.e. field sheet(s), edits, manuscripts, notes, and other associated data) is available in the scans archive.
  • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/21/2000 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Donna Ferren Guy
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Hydrology Status: unaltered
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Extra Moisture Source: none
  • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ZEMA

    Zea mays

    corn

    grass/grasslike

    100

    overstory

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

    aquic conditions

    ochric epipedon

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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

    2

    269

    899

    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

    00014920

    LA CROSSE MUNICIPAL AIRPORT, WI US

    NOAA

    Ap—0 to 28 centimeters (0.0 to 11.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1) broken face silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium granular structure; fragments. Lab sample # 01P01420; observed in auger, bucket
    A—28 to 41 centimeters (11.0 to 16.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) broken face silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium granular structure; fragments. Lab sample # 01P01421; observed in auger, bucket
    AB—41 to 97 centimeters (16.1 to 38.2 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) broken face silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; fragments. Lab sample # 01P01422; observed in auger, bucket. 8 parts gleyed
    C—97 to 152 centimeters (38.2 to 59.8 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) broken face silt loam; fragments. Lab sample # 01P01423; observed in auger, bucket. stratified sand and silt gleyed and black