IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Beaverbay
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2003WI003009
  • User Pedon ID: S2003WI003009
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2003WI003009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 03N0892
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16293
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024
  • 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: 46.1366653
  • Std. Longitude: -90.4211121
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 42N
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 7
  • PLSS Details: 1,200 feet south and 1,300 feet east of the NW corner
  • State: Wisconsin
  • County: WI003—Ashland
  • MLRA: 90—Central Wisconsin and Minnesota Thin Loess and Till
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WI003—Ashland County, Wisconsin
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46090-B4—Augustine Lake, Wisconsin
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jesse Turk, Kevin Traastad, John Lucassen
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Alfic Oxyaquic Haplorthods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 9
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Beaverbay
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Alfic Oxyaquic Haplorthods
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/18/2003
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty eolian deposits over sandy lodgement till
  • Landform: drumlin on till plain
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 0.05 percent 250- to 600-millimeter
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/18/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    ACSA3

    ARTR

    ATHYR

    CATH2

    OSCL

    SACA13

    TILIA

    Acer saccharum

    Arisaema triphyllum

    Athyrium

    Caulophyllum thalictroides

    Osmorhiza claytonii

    Sanguinaria canadensis

    Tilia

    sugar maple

    Jack in the pulpit

    ladyfern

    blue cohosh

    Clayton's sweetroot

    bloodroot

    basswood

    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    densic material

    94 - 203

    - 109 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    spodic horizon

    argillic horizon

    0—13

    13—66

    66—94

    —13—

    —53—

    —28—

    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

    515

    120

    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark gray (7.5YR 3/1), brown (7.5YR 4/2), dry; silt loam; weak medium granular structure; friable; 10.0 very fine roots and 10.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 2 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 4 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N04568; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bs1—13 to 38 centimeters (5.1 to 15.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) very fine sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 4.0 very fine roots and 10.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots and 4.0 coarse roots; 2 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 4 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N04569; moist when described;
    Bs2—38 to 66 centimeters (15.0 to 26.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) fine sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 4.0 very fine roots and 4.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 2 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 4 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N04570; moist when described;
    B/E—66 to 94 centimeters (26.0 to 37.0 inches); 75 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) and 25 percent brown (7.5YR 5/3), light brown (7.5YR 6/3), dry; fine sandy loam, loamy fine sand; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 1 percent faint brown (7.5YR 4/3) clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; 2 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 4 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N04571; moist when described;. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 245174; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 245174
    2BCd—94 to 142 centimeters (37.0 to 55.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/3) gravelly loamy sand; strong thick platy, and strong medium platy structure; very firm; 1 percent faint brown (7.5YR 4/3) clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine faint reddish brown (5YR 4/4) masses of oxidized iron; 2 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 18 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N04572; moist when described;. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 245175; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 245175
    2Cd—142 to 203 centimeters (55.9 to 79.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) gravelly loamy sand; massive; very firm; 2 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 18 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 03N04573; moist when described;. Platy-like soil fragments