IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Freeon
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990WI119009
  • User Pedon ID: 90WI119009
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1990WI119009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P0492
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 63535
  • 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: 45.0455551
  • Std. Longitude: -90.8191681
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 30N
  • Range: 4W
  • Section: 36
  • PLSS Details: 350 feet E and 300 feet S of the NW corner
  • Location Description: Taylor County, WI.
  • Map Unit: 757B—Magnor-Freeon complex, 0 to 6 percent slopes, very stony
  • 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: W.D. Fiala, R.A. Dahl
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Oxyaquic 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 #: 9
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Freeon
  • PSC - 38 to 86 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/18/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Freeon
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed Typic Glossoboralf
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1990
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1990 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • 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

    MESA

    TRPR2

    Medicago sativa

    Trifolium pratense

    alfalfa

    red clover

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—23

    38—86

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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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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 2.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P02814. light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) after exposure to air dry; 3% gravel mixed; common fine roots throughout
    E/B—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); 70 percent brown (10YR 5/3) exterior silt loam; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; moderate medium platy structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P02815. 3% 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 yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) exterior silt loam (Bt); few fine roots throughout; few fine distinct 7.5YR56 mottles
    B/E—38 to 51 centimeters (15.0 to 20.1 inches); 70 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) exterior silt loam; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 15 percent faint strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on horizontal faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P02816. 3% gravel mixed; penetrated by tongues of brown (10YR 5/3) exterior silt loam; pale brown (10YR 7/3) after exposure to air dry (E); few clay films surface features on horizontal faces of peds; few fine roots throughout; few fine distinct 7.5YR56 mottles; patchy - phpvsfiid 226743; patchy - phpvsfiid 226743
    2Bt1—51 to 69 centimeters (20.1 to 27.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) exterior loam; 11 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent faint strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P02817. 8% gravel mixed; few clay films surface features on faces of peds; common medium distinct 7.5YR56 mottles; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 226744; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 226744
    2Bt2—69 to 86 centimeters (27.2 to 33.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) exterior sandy loam; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent faint dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P02818. 8% gravel mixed; few clay films surface features on faces of peds; few medium distinct 7.5YR56 mottles; patchy - phpvsfiid 226745; patchy - phpvsfiid 226745
    2C—86 to 152 centimeters (33.9 to 59.8 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) exterior sandy loam; massive; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 91P02819. 8% gravel mixed