IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Downs
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1983WI043074
  • User Pedon ID: S1983WI043074
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1983WI043074
  • 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 # - 84P0094
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 53788
  • 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: 42.8138885
  • Std. Longitude: -90.9708328
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 4N
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: 410 feet south and 1850 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Location Description: from grassed water 78 feet south along top of corn strip and east 10 rows 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 #: 74
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Downs
  • PSC - 18 to 68 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 - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1983
  • Classifier - Dave Omernik
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • 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: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle 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

    redox concentrations

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    —

    —

    0—18

    18—71

    —-

    —-

    —-

    —-
    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

    10

    —

    —

    —

    —

    90

    899

    —

    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

    —

    00474546

    LANCASTER 4 WSW, WI US

    NOAA
    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior and dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed silty clay loam; 29 percent clay; moderate fine and medium 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 # 84P00473. common very fine and fine roots
    Bt1—18 to 29 centimeters (7.1 to 11.4 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; firm; common (2.5) very fine and fine roots; 11 percent fine and medium worm casts; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P00474. Layers compacted. Some areas are massive.; common fine and medium worm casts concentrations; common very fine and fine roots
    Bt2—29 to 45 centimeters (11.4 to 17.7 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; moderate very fine angular blocky structure; friable; common (2.5) very fine and fine roots; 37 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 11 percent fine and medium worm casts; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P00475. Mottles increase in size and number with depth as do Mn segregations.; common fine and medium worm casts concentrations; common clay films surface features on faces of peds; common very fine and fine roots; continuous - phpvsfiid 1321907; continuous - phpvsfiid 1321907
    Bt3—45 to 71 centimeters (17.7 to 28.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silt loam; moderate fine angular blocky structure; friable; few (0.5) very fine and fine roots; 55 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 11 percent fine and medium worm casts; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P00476. common fine and medium worm casts concentrations; many clay films surface features on vertical faces of peds; few very fine and fine roots; continuous - phpvsfiid 1321908; continuous - phpvsfiid 1321908
    BC—71 to 105 centimeters (28.0 to 41.3 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silt loam; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine faint and 11 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) fine distinct mottles; moderate coarse prismatic structure; few (0.5) very fine and fine roots; 55 percent brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 30 percent fine iron-manganese masses; 11 percent fine and medium worm casts; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P00477. many fine soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; common fine and medium worm casts concentrations; many clay films surface features on vertical faces of peds; few very fine and fine roots; common fine distinct 2.5Y62 mottles; few fine faint 10YR56 mottles; continuous - phpvsfiid 1321909; continuous - phpvsfiid 1321909
    C—105 to 169 centimeters (41.3 to 66.5 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silt loam; 11 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) fine distinct and 11 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) fine faint and 30 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) coarse distinct mottles; structureless massive; 11 percent fine iron-manganese masses; 11 percent fine and medium worm casts; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 84P00478. common fine and medium worm casts concentrations; common fine soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; many coarse distinct 7.5YR56 mottles; common fine distinct 2.5Y62 mottles; common fine faint 2.5Y54 mottles