IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ashdale
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • Local Phase: very deep, surface cracks
  • User Site ID: S2004WI065002
  • User Pedon ID: S2004WI065002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N1050
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16937
  • 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: 42.7127514
  • Std. Longitude: -90.3839242
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 3N
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: SW1/4SW1/4
  • Location Description: Approximately 4 miles southeast of Plattville, WI. On the UW-Plattville Farm.
  • 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: Duane Simonson, Howard Gundlach, Phil Meyer
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Vertic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 28
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ashdale
  • PSC - 36 to 86 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, active, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 36 to 86 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/17/2003
  • Classifier - Duane Simonson
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed
  • QA Status: not reviewed


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: Peoria silty noncalcareous loess over clayey mass movement deposits derived from dolomite over coarse-loamy residuum weathered from dolomite
  • Landscape: bedrock controlled upland
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: moderate weathered dolomite (dolostone) at 68cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/17/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Unknown
  • 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
  • Current Weather - partly cloudy
  • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    lithologic discontinuity

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—12

    12—36

    —-

    —-

    —-

    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

    4

    899

    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

    470890

    BLANCHARDVILLE, WI US

    NOAA/COOP

    Ap1—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) broken face silt loam; 25 percent sand; 65 percent silt; 15 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky; low toughness; low penetration resistance; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N05695; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Ap2—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) broken face silt loam; 25 percent sand; 65 percent silt; 15 percent clay; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky; low toughness; low penetration resistance; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N05696; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    BA—30 to 36 centimeters (11.8 to 14.2 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face silt loam; 25 percent sand; 65 percent silt; 15 percent clay; moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky; low toughness; low penetration resistance; 4.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N05697; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bt1—36 to 56 centimeters (14.2 to 22.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) broken face silty clay loam; 15 percent sand; 60 percent silt; 28 percent clay; moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky; medium toughness; moderate penetration resistance; 4.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N05698; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bt2—56 to 91 centimeters (22.0 to 35.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silty clay loam; 12 percent sand; 60 percent silt; 28 percent clay;—Error in Exists On—structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky; medium toughness; moderate penetration resistance; 4.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N05699; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    2Bt3—91 to 117 centimeters (35.8 to 46.1 inches); 80 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face and 20 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silty clay; 5 percent sand; 45 percent silt; 45 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky; high toughness; very high penetration resistance; few (0.5) fine roots throughout; 10 percent by volume nonflat very angular 20-50-75 millimeter chert fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N05700; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    2Bt4—117 to 145 centimeters (46.1 to 57.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face clay; 20 percent sand; 15 percent silt; 65 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky; high toughness; very high penetration resistance; few (0.5) fine roots throughout; 75 percent faint very dark brown (7.5YR 2.5/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular 20-50-75 millimeter chert fragments observed by visual inspection method; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N05701; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry. continuous - phpvsfiid 1513274; continuous - phpvsfiid 1513274
    3Bt5—145 to 173 centimeters (57.1 to 68.1 inches); yellow (10YR 7/6) broken face gravelly loamy fine sand; 80 percent sand; 15 percent silt; 5 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; loose, loose, nonsticky; low toughness; low penetration resistance; few (0.5) fine roots throughout; 75 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, clay films between sand grains; 25 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 20-50-75 millimeter dolomite (dolostone) fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 04N05702; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry. continuous - phpvsfiid 1513275; continuous - phpvsfiid 1513275
    3C—173 to 203 centimeters (68.1 to 79.9 inches); light red (2.5YR 7/6) broken face extremely cobbly loamy fine sand; 85 percent sand; 10 percent silt; 5 percent clay; structureless single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky; low toughness; moderate penetration resistance; few (0.5) fine roots throughout; 30 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 20-50-75 millimeter dolomite (dolostone) fragments observed by visual inspection method and 40 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 75-150-250 millimeter dolomite (dolostone) fragments observed by visual inspection method. Lab sample # 04N05703; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry