IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hixton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2000WI063024
  • User Pedon ID: S2000WI063024
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2000WI063024
  • User Site Association ID: Shaunna_skeletonsdoublecheckafterupdate
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - LIMS
  • Lab Pedon # - 01P0210
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 13042
  • User Project ID: 10-ONA_*Archived
  • Project Name: MLRA 105 and MLRA 95B - SoLIM Project
  • 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: 43.9896126
  • Std. Longitude: -90.9574966
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 6.00
  • Township: 18N
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 34
  • Location Description: at the corner of a farmland, there was a road going up to the farmland from the highway. Up close to the edge of bushes
  • 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: Fine-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • 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 - Hixton
  • PSC - 23 to 58 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/26/2012
  • Classifier - Donna Ferren Guy
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hixton
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 23 to 58 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/21/2000
  • Classifier - Donna Ferren Guy
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • 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: residuum
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: sandstone, unspecified at 58cm
  • Geology: Wonewoc formation of the Elk Mound group.
  • 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 - hayland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    MEDIC

    Medicago

    alfalfa

    forb

    100

    overstory
    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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    paralithic contact

    paralithic materials

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    —

    —

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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

    22

    —

    —

    301

    —

    899

    —

    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

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    00014920

    LA CROSSE MUNICIPAL AIRPORT, WI US

    NOAA
    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face silt loam; fine subangular blocky, and medium subangular blocky structure; fragments. Lab sample # 01P01341; observed in auger, bucket
    Bt—23 to 58 centimeters (9.1 to 22.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; fragments. Lab sample # 01P01342; observed in auger, bucket
    2Cr—58 to 59 centimeters (22.8 to 23.2 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in auger, bucket. grounding on soft sandstone