IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Brill
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988WI119007
  • User Pedon ID: 88WI119007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1988WI119007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 89P0606
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61706
  • Print Date: 5/11/2024

    • 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: 45.0777779
  • Std. Longitude: -90.4980545
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 30N
  • Range: 1W
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: 1250 feet N and 700 feet W of the SE corner
  • Location Description: Taylor County, WI.
  • Map Unit: 48B—Brill silt loam, 1 to 6 percent slopes
  • State: Wisconsin
  • County: WI119—Taylor
  • MLRA: 90—Central Wisconsin and Minnesota Thin Loess and Till
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WI119—Taylor County, Wisconsin

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: S. Hagedorn
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, frigid Haplic Glossudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Brill
  • PSC - 48 to 97 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/4/2006
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Brill
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed Typ
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1988
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: terrace—outwash or marine
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1988 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    POPR

    Poa pratensis

    Kentucky bluegrass

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

    ochric epipedon

    albic horizon

    argillic horizon

    0—48

    8—48

    48—97

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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

    2

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    405

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    90

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 5.5 fine and medium roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P03371. some mixing of E in A, 1% gravel; many fine and medium roots
    E—8 to 30 centimeters (3.1 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; silt loam; moderate medium platy structure; friable; 5.5 fine and medium roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P03372. 2% gravel; many fine and medium roots
    E—30 to 48 centimeters (11.8 to 18.9 inches); 70 percent brown (10YR 5/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; silt loam; moderate medium platy structure; friable; 5.5 fine and medium roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P03373. 2% gravel; many fine and medium roots
    B—30 to 48 centimeters (11.8 to 18.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 5.5 fine and medium roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P03373. 2% gravel; many fine and medium roots
    B—48 to 64 centimeters (18.9 to 25.2 inches); 70 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; 11 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 medium roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P03374. 2% gravel; common medium roots; common medium distinct 7.5YR56 mottles
    E—48 to 64 centimeters (18.9 to 25.2 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 medium roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P03374. 2% gravel; common medium roots
    Bt1—64 to 89 centimeters (25.2 to 35.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; 30 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 medium roots; 37 percent distinct reddish brown (5YR 4/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P03375. 2% gravel; common clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; common medium roots; many medium distinct 7.5YR56 mottles
    2Bt2—89 to 97 centimeters (35.0 to 38.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) gravelly loamy coarse sand; 30 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium distinct mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 15 percent prominent reddish brown (5YR 4/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores and 37 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/2), moist, clay bridges between sand grains; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P03376. 2% gravel; few clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; common clay bridging surface features between sand grains; many medium distinct 7.5YR56 mottles
    2C—97 to 152 centimeters (38.2 to 59.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) gravelly sand; single grain; loose; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 89P03377. this horizon contains several 4-6" bands of sand and gravelly sand; 20% gravel