IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Downs
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1983WI043073
  • User Pedon ID: S1983WI043073
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1983WI043073
  • 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 # - 84P0093
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 53787
  • Print Date: 6/1/2024

    • 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: 42.8041649
  • Std. Longitude: -90.9713898
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 4N
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: 210 feet south and 1780 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Location Description: 48 feet s of access road along top of corn and 11 rows down into corn
  • 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, George Hudelson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 73
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Downs
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/14/2022
  • Classifier - Shaunna Repking
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tama
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1983
  • Classifier - Dave Omernik
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • 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
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: valley side
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: moderately 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: 10/1/1983 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Dave Omernik
  • 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    —

    —

    0—20

    20—76

    —-

    —-

    —-

    —-
    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

    8

    —

    —

    —

    —

    90

    899

    —

    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

    —

    00474546

    LANCASTER 4 WSW, WI US

    NOAA
    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed silt loam; 24 percent clay; weak very fine subangular blocky, and weak very fine angular blocky structure; firm; common (2.5) very fine and fine roots; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P00467. 5% Bt material mixed into plow layer
    Bt1—20 to 31 centimeters (7.9 to 12.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; weak very fine subangular blocky, and structureless massive; firm; common (2.5) very fine and fine roots; 15 percent brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 11 percent medium and coarse worm casts; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P00468. common medium and coarse worm casts concentrations; few clay films surface features on faces of peds; common very fine and fine roots; Massive structure under wheel track; patchy - phpvsfiid 1321903; patchy - phpvsfiid 1321903
    Bt2—31 to 56 centimeters (12.2 to 22.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; weak very fine and fine angular blocky structure; friable; common (2.5) very fine and fine roots; 15 percent brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 11 percent medium and coarse worm casts; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P00469. Approximately 10 percent fine pieces of B material mixed with A. Surface 4 cm places has weak fine granular structure.; common medium and coarse worm casts concentrations; few clay films surface features on faces of peds; common very fine and fine roots; patchy - phpvsfiid 1321904; patchy - phpvsfiid 1321904
    Bt3—56 to 76 centimeters (22.0 to 29.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silt loam; moderate fine angular blocky structure; friable; common (2.5) very fine and fine roots; 55 percent brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 11 percent medium and coarse worm casts; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P00470. common medium and coarse worm casts concentrations; many clay films surface features on faces of peds; common very fine and fine roots; continuous - phpvsfiid 1321905; continuous - phpvsfiid 1321905
    BC—76 to 132 centimeters (29.9 to 52.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silt loam; 11 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) fine prominent and 11 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine faint and 11 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) fine faint mottles; moderate medium and coarse prismatic structure; friable; common (2.5) very fine and fine roots; dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 11 percent medium and coarse worm casts; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P00471. common medium and coarse worm casts concentrations; common very fine and fine roots; common fine prominent 2.5Y62 mottles; common fine faint 10YR56 mottles; common fine faint 2.5Y54 mottles
    C—132 to 178 centimeters (52.0 to 70.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silt loam; 11 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) fine prominent and 11 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine faint and 11 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) fine faint mottles; structureless massive; friable; few (0.5) fine and medium roots; 11 percent medium and coarse worm casts; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 84P00472. common medium and coarse worm casts concentrations; few fine and medium roots; common fine prominent 2.5Y62 mottles; common fine faint 10YR56 mottles; common fine faint 2.5Y54 mottles