IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Downs
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1983WI043042
  • User Pedon ID: S1983WI043042
  • User Site Association ID: Loamy-Silty Uplands (MN, IA, WI) DSP Project 2021-2024
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - LIMS
  • Lab Pedon # - 84P0950
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 80207
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 42.8032360
  • Std. Longitude: -90.9159572
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 4N
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 24
  • PLSS Details: 1520 feet south and 1700 feet west of the center
  • Location Description: from pasture gate 216 feet south along lane and 50 feet east into hay strip
  • 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: Dave Omernik
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC 6.0B
  • Pedon #: 42
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Downs
  • PSC - 28 to 78 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/4/2014
  • Classifier - Shaunna Repking
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fayette
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 28 to 78 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/17/1983
  • Classifier - Dave Omernik
  • 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
  • Landform: ridge, valley side
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: crest
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • 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: 5/17/1983 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Dave Omernik
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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

    argillic horizon

    albic horizon

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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

    5

    —

    —

    —

    —

    315

    899

    —

    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

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    00474546

    LANCASTER 4 WSW, WI US

    NOAA
    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face and dark brown (10YR 3/3) rubbed, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face and brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, dry; silty clay loam; moderate fine granular, and moderate very fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P01642
    E—23 to 28 centimeters (9.1 to 11.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; moderate thin platy structure; very friable; grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, silt coats; fragments; neutral, pH 6.7, unspecified; clear wavy boundary.
    Bt1—28 to 36 centimeters (11.0 to 14.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films and grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, silt coats; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, unspecified; clear wavy boundary.
    Bt2—36 to 46 centimeters (14.2 to 18.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate very fine angular blocky structure; friable; dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, unspecified; clear wavy boundary.
    Bt3—46 to 58 centimeters (18.1 to 22.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate very fine angular blocky structure; friable; dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary.
    Bt4—58 to 91 centimeters (22.8 to 35.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam, silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and weak medium prismatic, and weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist, clay films; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary.
    BC—91 to 147 centimeters (35.8 to 57.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; fine distinct light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist, and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist,; worm casts; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, unspecified; clear wavy boundary.
    C—147 to 180 centimeters (57.9 to 70.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; very friable; fine distinct light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist, and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, and fine prominent light olive gray (5Y 6/2), moist,; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, unspecified.