IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ashdale
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • Local Phase: very deep
  • User Site ID: S2004WI065001
  • User Pedon ID: S2004WI065001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N1049
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16936
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 42.7244015
  • Std. Longitude: -90.4038543
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 3N
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 20
  • PLSS Details: NW1/4NW1/4
  • Location Description: Platteville Pioneer Farm, Backhoe Pit 2
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Wisconsin
  • County: WI065—Lafayette
  • 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: WI065—Lafayette County, Wisconsin

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Howard Gundlach, Phil Meyer, Donna Ferren Guy
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ashdale
  • PSC - 23 to 73 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/27/2016
  • Classifier - Michael England
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Dodgeville
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty over clayey, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 23 to 73 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/17/2003
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Peoria silty loess over residuum
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: dolomite (dolostone)
  • Geology: Galena formation of the Sinnipee group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/14/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Unknown
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • 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

    lithologic discontinuity

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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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    —

    —

    —

    899

    —

    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

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    470890

    BLANCHARDVILLE, WI US

    NOAA/COOP
    Ap1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silt loam; 15 percent sand; 60 percent silt; 25 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N05686; observed in pit, small
    Ap2—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silt loam; 15 percent sand; 60 percent silt; 26 percent clay; strong fine and medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N05687; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—23 to 33 centimeters (9.1 to 13.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) silt loam; 13 percent sand; 60 percent silt; 27 percent clay; moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; 90 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N05688; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 1513276; continuous - phpvsfiid 1513276
    Bt2—33 to 66 centimeters (13.0 to 26.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) silt loam; 13 percent sand; 60 percent silt; 27 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; 90 percent faint carbonate coats on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N05689; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 1513277; continuous - phpvsfiid 1513277
    Bt3—66 to 97 centimeters (26.0 to 38.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; 13 percent sand; 60 percent silt; 27 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; 70 percent faint carbonate coats on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N05690; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 1513278; continuous - phpvsfiid 1513278
    Bt4—97 to 112 centimeters (38.2 to 44.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; 13 percent sand; 60 percent silt; 27 percent clay; moderate very coarse prismatic parts to moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; 60 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N05691; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 1513279; continuous - phpvsfiid 1513279
    2Bt5—112 to 127 centimeters (44.1 to 50.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; 17 percent sand; 45 percent silt; 38 percent clay; strong very coarse prismatic parts to moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; 2 percent distinct clay films on rock fragments; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N05692; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 1513280; patchy - phpvsfiid 1513280
    3Bt6—127 to 147 centimeters (50.0 to 57.9 inches); 75 percent olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6) and 25 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) cobbly fine sandy loam; 65 percent sand; 20 percent silt; 15 percent clay; structureless massive; 2 percent prominent clay films on rock fragments; 30 percent by volume flat angular ? to 4-? millimeter dolomite (dolostone) fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N05693; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 1513281; patchy - phpvsfiid 1513281
    3Bt7—147 to 203 centimeters (57.9 to 79.9 inches); olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6) very stony fine sandy loam; 75 percent sand; 15 percent silt; 10 percent clay; structureless massive; 2 percent prominent clay films; 20 percent by volume flat angular dolomite (dolostone) fragments observed by visual inspection method and 40 percent by volume flat angular dolomite (dolostone) fragments observed by visual inspection method. Lab sample # 04N05694; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 1513282; patchy - phpvsfiid 1513282