IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Onaway
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2012WI083001
  • User Pedon ID: S2012WI083001
  • User Site Association ID: MLRA 94B - Onaway-Emmet Benchmark Soils Project
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 13N5529
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 72936
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 44.9900000
  • Std. Longitude: -87.8801389
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 29N
  • Range: 22E
  • Section: 18
  • PLSS Details: NW 1/4 of NW 1/4
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Wisconsin
  • County: WI083—Oconto
  • MLRA: 95—Eastern Wisconsin, Northern Illinois, and Upper Michigan Drift Plain
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-JUE—Juneau, Wisconsin
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WI083—Oconto County, Wisconsin
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44087-H8—Oconto West, Wisconsin

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: NI, RB, SL
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, frigid Inceptic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Onaway
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, active, frigid Inceptic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 89 to 102 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/14/2012
  • Classifier - SL, RB, NI
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy till
  • Landform: ground moraine
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/14/2012 (actual site observation date)
  • 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    albic horizon

    argillic horizon

    0—23

    23—41

    41—61

    61—102

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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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    270

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark brown (7.5YR 2.5/2), brown (7.5YR 5/2), dry; fine sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2 percent by volume mixed fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N03378; observed in pit, small
    Bw—23 to 41 centimeters (9.1 to 16.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) fine sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N03379; observed in pit, small
    E—41 to 61 centimeters (16.1 to 24.0 inches); loamy sand; weak medium platy parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; ; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N03380; observed in pit, small
    E/B—61 to 79 centimeters (24.0 to 31.1 inches); 60 percent brown (7.5YR 5/2) and 40 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) sandy loam, clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 30 percent fine faint pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 35 percent fine prominent yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N03381; observed in pit, small
    B/E—79 to 89 centimeters (31.1 to 35.0 inches); 60 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) and 40 percent reddish gray (5YR 5/2) clay loam, sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 30 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N03382; observed in pit, small
    Bt—89 to 102 centimeters (35.0 to 40.2 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) clay loam; strong medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 7 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 35 percent fine faint reddish brown (5YR 5/3), moist, iron depletions in matrix; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N03383; observed in pit, small
    2Cd1—102 to 150 centimeters (40.2 to 59.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) gravelly sandy loam; massive; firm; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N03384; observed in pit, small
    2Cd2—150 to 203 centimeters (59.1 to 79.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4) gravelly sandy loam; massive; firm; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 13N03385; observed in pit, small