IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Absco
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1991WI053004
  • User Pedon ID: S1991WI053004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 92P0416
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 64655
  • 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: 44.1594429
  • Std. Longitude: -90.9891663
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 20N
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: 300 feet north and 1280 feet east of the southwest corner
  • Location Description: about 1 mile north of the village of Melrose
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Wisconsin
  • County: WI053—Jackson
  • 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: WI053—Jackson County, Wisconsin
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44090-B8—Melrose, Wisconsin

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Tim Meyer, Larry Natzke, John Langton
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy, siliceous, mesic Typic Udifluvents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Absco
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2019
  • Classifier - Michael England
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Absco (flagged as OSD)
  • Taxonomic Class - Sandy, siliceous, mesic Typic Udifluvents
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/1/2000
  • Classifier - Tim Meyer
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy alluvium over loamy alluvium
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: occasional flooding for brief periods
  • 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: 3/1/2000 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Tim Meyer
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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

    cambic horizon

    redox concentrations

    ochric epipedon

    —

    —

    0—10

    —-

    —-

    —-
    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

    1

    —

    —

    241

    —

    180

    899

    —

    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

    —

    0000WBRF

    BLACK RIVER FALLS WISCONSIN, WI US

    NOAA
    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; loamy sand; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 6.0 very fine roots and 6.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P2545
    Bw—10 to 36 centimeters (3.9 to 14.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) sand; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; 4.0 very fine roots and 4.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P2546
    C1—36 to 89 centimeters (14.2 to 35.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) stratified stratified sand to fine sandy loam; structureless single grain; loose; few (0.3) very fine roots and few (0.3) fine roots throughout; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P2547
    C2—89 to 107 centimeters (35.0 to 42.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) stratified stratified loamy sand to silt loam to fine sandy loam; structureless single grain; loose; few (0.3) very fine roots and few (0.3) fine roots throughout; 1 percent medium prominent irregular strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P2548
    C3—107 to 152 centimeters (42.1 to 59.8 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) stratified stratified sand; structureless single grain; loose; 10 percent medium prominent irregular strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified. Lab sample # 92P2549