IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Freeon
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990WI119004
  • User Pedon ID: 90WI119004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1990WI119004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P0490
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 63533
  • Print Date: 5/14/2024

    • 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: 45.0458336
  • Std. Longitude: -90.8833313
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 30N
  • Range: 4W
  • Section: 32
  • PLSS Details: 450 feet W and 50 feet S of the NE corner
  • Location Description: Taylor County, WI.
  • State: Wisconsin
  • County: WI119—Taylor
  • MLRA: 90—Central Wisconsin and Minnesota Thin Loess and Till

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W.D. Fiala
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Oxyaquic Glossudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Freeon
  • PSC - 41 to 91 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Freeon
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed Typic Glossoboralf
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1990
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.05 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/1990 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • 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

    ACSA3

    QURU

    Acer saccharum

    Quercus rubra

    sugar maple

    northern red oak

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—15

    41—107

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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

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    Oe—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. no sample; is partially decomposed leaf litter
    A—5 to 8 centimeters (2.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) exterior silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 2.5 medium roots throughout and 5.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. no sample; 2% gravel mixed; grayish brown (10YR 5/2) after exposure to air dry; common medium roots throughout; many fine roots throughout
    E—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) exterior silt loam; moderate medium platy structure; friable; 2.5 fine and medium roots throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P02800. 2% gravel mixed; very pale brown (10YR 7/3) after exposure to air dry; common fine and medium roots throughout
    Bw—20 to 35 centimeters (7.9 to 13.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) exterior silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 2.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P02801. 2% gravel mixed; few medium roots throughout; common fine roots throughout
    E/B—35 to 46 centimeters (13.8 to 18.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) exterior silt loam; 11 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; moderate medium platy structure; friable; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 2.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P02802. 5% gravel mixed; very pale brown (10YR 7/3) after exposure to air dry (E); extends as tongues into or completely surrounds some remnants of dark brown (7.5YR 4/4) exterior silt loam (Bt); few medium roots throughout; common fine roots throughout; common fine distinct 7.5YR56 mottles
    B/E—46 to 56 centimeters (18.1 to 22.0 inches); 70 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) exterior silt loam; 30 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium distinct mottles; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 2.5 fine roots throughout; 15 percent faint strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on horizontal faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P02803. 5% gravel mixed; penetrated by tongues of brown (10YR 5/3) exterior silt loam; very pale brown (10YR 7/3) after exposure to air dry (E); few clay films surface features on horizontal faces of peds; few medium roots throughout; common fine roots throughout; many medium distinct 7.5YR56 mottles; patchy - phpvsfiid 226738; patchy - phpvsfiid 226738
    2Bt1—56 to 74 centimeters (22.0 to 29.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) exterior sandy loam; 11 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) medium distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 37 percent faint dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 3 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P02804. 10% gravel mixed; common clay films surface features on faces of peds; few fine roots throughout; common medium distinct 5YR56 mottles; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 226739; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 226739
    2Bt2—74 to 104 centimeters (29.1 to 40.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) exterior sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 15 percent faint dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 3 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P02805. 10% gravel mixed; few clay films surface features on vertical faces of peds; few fine roots throughout; patchy - phpvsfiid 226740; patchy - phpvsfiid 226740
    2C—104 to 157 centimeters (40.9 to 61.8 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) exterior sandy loam; massive; friable; 3 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 91P02806. 10% gravel mixed