IDENTIFIERS

Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Valton

OSD

Series Extent

User Site ID: S1989WI103001

User Pedon ID: S1989WI103001

Lab Information:

Certified Lab Pedon Description - no

Lab Source ID - SSL

Lab Pedon # - 90P0569

NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 62502

Print Date: 6/3/2024

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: 43.4058342

Std. Longitude: -90.5108337

Datum: WGS84

GPS - Positional Error: 10.00

Township: 11N

Range: 1W

Section: 29

PLSS Details: 690 feet south and 610 feet west of the northeast corner

Map Unit: 133C2—Valton silt loam, 6 to 12 percent slopes, moderately eroded

Country: US—United States

State: Wisconsin

County: WI103—Richland

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: WI103—Richland County, Wisconsin

PEDON

Describers Name: Dave Omernik

Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty over clayey, mixed, superactive, mesic Mollic Paleudalfs

Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct

Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series

Pedon Purpose: full pedon description

Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data

Pedon #: 1

Correlated Information:

Soil Name - Valton

PSC - 23 to 73 cm.

Classificaton Date - 5/13/2015

Classifier - Michael England

Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition

Moisture Class - udic

Moisture Subclass - typic

Sampled As Information:

Soil Name - Valton

Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Mollic Paleudalfs

Taxon Kind - series

PSC - 23 to 73 cm.

Classificaton Date - 7/1/1989

Classifier - Unknown

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

Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve

Hill Slope Profile: summit

Slope Complexity: simple

Slope Shape Across: concave

Slope Shape Down: concave

Runoff: medium

Drainage Class: well

Flooding: none flooding

Ponding: none ponding

Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent

Benchmark Soil?: no

RaCA Information:

Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown

Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown

VEGETATION

SITE OBSERVATION

Observation Date: 7/1/1989 (actual site observation date)

Data Collector: Unknown

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
lithologic discontinuity ochric epipedon argillic horizon	— 0—23 23—114	—- —- —-

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
4	—	—	366	—	270	899	—	155	8	22	-5	12	22	2	558	—	474404	LA FARGE, WI US	NOAA/COOP

Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and brown (10YR 5/3), dry; silt loam; weak medium cloddy, and weak medium granular structure; friable; many (5.5) very fine and fine roots throughout; common (2.5) very fine vesicular and tubular pores; 11 percent medium and coarse spherical worm casts; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P03292. common medium and coarse worm casts concentrations; many very fine and fine roots throughout

Bt1—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; firm; common (2.5) very fine and fine roots throughout; common (2.5) very fine vesicular and tubular and few (0.5) fine tubular pores; dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds and 15 percent faint brown (10YR 4/3), moist, skeletans on faces of peds and in pores; 11 percent medium and coarse spherical worm casts; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P03293. common medium and coarse worm casts concentrations; few skeletans (sand or silt) surface features on faces of peds and in pores; common very fine and fine roots throughout; patchy - phpvsfiid 1307410; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1307411; patchy - phpvsfiid 1307410; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1307411

Bt2—36 to 53 centimeters (14.2 to 20.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; common (2.5) very fine and fine roots throughout; many (5.5) very fine vesicular and tubular and few (0.5) fine tubular pores; 15 percent distinct brown (10YR 5/3), moist, skeletans on faces of peds and in pores and 37 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent medium and coarse spherical worm casts; 9 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P03294. few medium and coarse worm casts concentrations; few skeletans (sand or silt) surface features on faces of peds and in pores; common clay films surface features on faces of peds; common very fine and fine roots throughout; patchy - phpvsfiid 1307412; continuous - phpvsfiid 1307413; patchy - phpvsfiid 1307412; continuous - phpvsfiid 1307413

Bt3—53 to 71 centimeters (20.9 to 28.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; common (2.5) very fine and fine roots throughout; common (2.5) very fine vesicular and tubular and few (0.5) fine tubular pores; 2 percent prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, iron stains on horizontal faces of peds and 37 percent distinct brown (10YR 5/3), moist, skeletans on vertical faces of peds and 55 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent medium and coarse spherical worm casts; 11 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P03295. few medium and coarse worm casts concentrations; common skeletans (sand or silt) surface features on vertical faces of peds; many clay films surface features on faces of peds; very few iron stains surface features on horizontal faces of peds; common very fine and fine roots throughout; continuous - phpvsfiid 1307414; continuous - phpvsfiid 1307415; patchy - phpvsfiid 1307416; continuous - phpvsfiid 1307414; continuous - phpvsfiid 1307415; patchy - phpvsfiid 1307416

2Bt4—71 to 81 centimeters (28.0 to 31.9 inches); 10 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) and 30 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and 60 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) channery silty clay; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; very firm; common (2.5) very fine roots in cracks; few (0.5) very fine vesicular and tubular pores; 15 percent distinct brown (10YR 5/3), moist, skeletans on vertical faces of peds and 15 percent prominent 7.5YR 2/0 (7.5YR 2/0), moist, organic stains on faces of peds and in pores and 55 percent prominent dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 14 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P03296. common very fine roots in cracks; patchy - phpvsfiid 1307418; continuous - phpvsfiid 1307417; patchy - phpvsfiid 1307418; continuous - phpvsfiid 1307417

2Bt5—81 to 114 centimeters (31.9 to 44.9 inches); 25 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and 30 percent reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) and 45 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) silty clay; weak medium prismatic structure; very firm; few (0.5) very fine roots in cracks; many (5.5) very fine vesicular and tubular pores; reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, pressure faces on faces of peds and 2 percent prominent greenish gray (5GY 6/1), moist, coats in root channels and/or pores and 15 percent faint reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 6 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P03297. few clay films surface features on vertical faces of peds; very few coats surface features in root channels and/or pores; few very fine roots in cracks; continuous - phpvsfiid 1307420; patchy - phpvsfiid 1307421; continuous - phpvsfiid 1307422; continuous - phpvsfiid 1307420; patchy - phpvsfiid 1307421; continuous - phpvsfiid 1307422

2BC—114 to 173 centimeters (44.9 to 68.1 inches); 33 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) and 33 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) and 33 percent reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) clay; extremely firm*; common (2.5) very fine vesicular and tubular pores; greenish gray (5GY 6/1), moist, coats in root channels and/or pores and 15 percent prominent reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds and 15 percent 7.5YR 2/0 (7.5YR 2/0), moist, organic stains on faces of peds; 1 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 2 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 6 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method. Lab sample # 90P03298. medium and coarse plate like soft masses from sandstone or shale; few clay films surface features on vertical faces of peds; few organic coats surface features on faces of peds; continuous - phpvsfiid 1307423; patchy - phpvsfiid 1307425; continuous - phpvsfiid 1307423; patchy - phpvsfiid 1307425