IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Seaton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1983WI093034
  • User Pedon ID: S1983WI093034
  • 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 # - 84P0989
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 80239
  • 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: 44.6372488
  • Std. Longitude: -92.4696052
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 25N
  • Range: 17W
  • Section: 20
  • PLSS Details: 230 feet south and 530 feet west of the center
  • Location Description: from road ditch (driveway) 87' S along lower side of hay strip then 38' E (uphill) into hay; top of loess hills in contact pt. of glacial till and driftless area
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Wisconsin
  • County: WI093—Pierce
  • 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: WI093—Pierce County, Wisconsin

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Rich Johannes
  • 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: PedonPC 6.1B
  • Pedon #: 21
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Seaton
  • PSC - 28 to 78 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/4/1983
  • Classifier - Rich Johannes
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Seaton
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 28 to 78 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/4/1983
  • Classifier - Rich Johannes
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • 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 over till
  • Landscape: upland
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • 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: 5/4/1983 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Rich Johannes
  • 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
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    albic horizon

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

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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

    2

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    315

    899

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    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

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    0010

    RIVER FALLS 1.4 S, WI US

    NOAA
    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face and dark brown (10YR 3/3) rubbed, brown (10YR 5/3) broken face and brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, dry; silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P01678; observed in pit, small
    E—23 to 28 centimeters (9.1 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate fine platy, and moderate medium platy structure; very friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—28 to 53 centimeters (11.0 to 20.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate very fine angular blocky structure; friable; dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—53 to 84 centimeters (20.9 to 33.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; strong fine angular blocky structure; friable; dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bt3—84 to 130 centimeters (33.1 to 51.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; very friable; dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    BC—130 to 140 centimeters (51.2 to 55.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) mottles; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    2C—140 to 173 centimeters (55.1 to 68.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay loam; strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and grayish brown (10YR 5/2) mottles; firm; 5 percent by volume nonflat 2-16-64 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; slightly acid, pH 6.5, pH meter.; observed in auger, bucket