IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fayette
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1944WI043004
  • User Pedon ID: S1944WI043004
  • User Site Association ID: Loamy-Silty Uplands (MN, IA, WI) DSP Project 2021-2024
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1534
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 35142
  • Print Date: 5/30/2024
  • 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: 42.9655571
  • Std. Longitude: -91.0705566
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 6N
  • Range: 6W
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: NW1/4SE1/4
  • Location Description: Ungrazed woods about 100 feet north of road and 1/4 mi west of small gray farmhouse. 800 feet east of cheese factory and shcool. Woods is 1/2 mile east of Junction of County Highways C and C and about 2 miles east of eastern boundary of Wyalusing State Park
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Wisconsin
  • County: WI043—Grant
  • 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: WI043—Grant County, Wisconsin
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: RJ Muckenhirn, TC Bass
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Fayette
  • PSC - 40 to 90 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/14/1944
  • Classifier - RJ Muckenhirn
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fayette
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 40 to 90 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/14/1944
  • Classifier - RJ Muckenhirn
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed
  • QA Status: not reviewed


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: Peoria silty loess
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/14/1944 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: RJ Muckenhirn
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    albic horizon

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    —-

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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

    899

    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

    00474546

    LANCASTER 4 WSW, WI US

    NOAA

    O1—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A12038. Loose leaves from deciduous trees - white oak, hickory, maple, basswood, understory of dogwood, Virginia creeper, crane's bill, and bedstraw.
    O2—3 to 4 centimeters (1.2 to 1.6 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A12039. Partly decomposed leaves and twigs forming soft slightly mottled layer of light grayish brown or pale brown color.
    A—4 to 7 centimeters (1.6 to 2.8 inches); silt loam; fine granular structure; loose, friable; fragments. Lab sample # 40A12040
    E1—7 to 12 centimeters (2.8 to 4.7 inches); silt loam; medium platy parts to coarse granular structure; soft; many (21.0) fine roots; fragments. Lab sample # 40A12041
    E2—12 to 14 centimeters (4.7 to 5.5 inches); silt loam; coarse platy parts to coarse granular structure; fragments. Lab sample # 40A12042
    E3—14 to 24 centimeters (5.5 to 9.4 inches); silt loam; medium platy parts to coarse granular structure; few (0.5) roots; many vesicular pores; fragments. Lab sample # 40A12043. This layer is rather sharply distinguished from next layer below in color and structure; however, the depth varies from 8 to 14 inches, making this layer from 4 to 10 inches thick.
    E4—24 to 32 centimeters (9.4 to 12.6 inches); silt loam; platy, and coarse granular structure; few (0.5) fine roots; fragments. Lab sample # 40A12044
    BE—32 to 40 centimeters (12.6 to 15.7 inches); silt loam; medium subangular blocky structure; fragments. Lab sample # 40A12045
    Bt1—40 to 47 centimeters (15.7 to 18.5 inches); silt loam; coarse platy structure; fragments. Lab sample # 40A12046
    Bt2—47 to 52 centimeters (18.5 to 20.5 inches); silt loam; medium subangular blocky parts to medium granular structure; fragments. Lab sample # 40A12047. This layer grades into one above and one below.
    Bt3—52 to 62 centimeters (20.5 to 24.4 inches); silt loam; medium subangular blocky structure; fragments. Lab sample # 40A12048
    Bt4—62 to 73 centimeters (24.4 to 28.7 inches); silty clay loam; medium subangular blocky structure; fragments. Lab sample # 40A12049
    Bt5—73 to 90 centimeters (28.7 to 35.4 inches); silty clay loam; medium subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments. Lab sample # 40A12050. 40A12051
    Bt6—90 to 103 centimeters (35.4 to 40.6 inches); silty clay loam; medium subangular blocky structure; fragments. Lab sample # 40A12052
    BC—103 to 118 centimeters (40.6 to 46.5 inches); silt loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; fragments. Lab sample # 40A12053
    C1—118 to 134 centimeters (46.5 to 52.8 inches); silt loam; fragments. Lab sample # 40A12054
    C2—156 to 187 centimeters (61.4 to 73.6 inches); silt loam; fragments. Lab sample # 40A12055