LOCATION SAYNER WI+MIEstablished Series
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Sandy, mixed, frigid Entic Haplorthods
TYPICAL PEDON: Sayner loamy sand - on a northeast-facing slope of 18 percent in a forested area at an elevation of 1606 feet. (Colors are for moist soil unless otherwise stated.)
A--0 to 2 inches; black (N 2/0) loamy sand, dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) dry; weak medium granular structure; very friable; many fine roots; few charcoal fragments; many uncoated sand grains; about 3 percent gravel; strongly acid; abrupt wavy boundary. (0 to 4 inches thick.)
E--2 to 4 inches; brown (7.5YR 4/2) loamy sand, pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2) dry; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; many fine roots; about 3 percent gravel; moderately acid; abrupt wavy boundary. (0 to 5 inches thick.)
Bs1--4 to 7 inches; dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) loamy sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; many fine roots; about 5 percent gravel; moderately acid; clear wavy boundary.
Bs2--7 to 14 inches; reddish brown (5YR 4/4) sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; common fine roots; about 10 percent gravel; moderately acid; clear wavy boundary. (combined thickness of the Bs horizons is 5 to 24 inches)
BC--14 to 22 inches; strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) gravelly sand; single grain; loose; slightly coherent in places; few fine roots; about 25 percent gravel; slightly acid; clear wavy boundary. (0 to 14 inches thick)
C1--22 to 38 inches; strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) stratified gravelly coarse sand and coarse sand; single grain; loose; about 17 percent gravel as an average; slightly acid; gradual wavy boundary.
C2--38 to 60 inches; light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) and brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) stratified coarse sand and gravelly coarse sand; single grain; loose; about 12 percent gravel as an average; slightly acid.
TYPE LOCATION: Oneida County, Wisconsin; about 3.25 miles south of Hazelhurst; 450 feet south and 1380 feet west of the northeast corner of sec. 27, T. 38 N., R. 6 E.
RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS: Solum thickness ranges from 12 to 36 inches. Total volume of rock fragments averages less than 35 percent in the particle-size and series control section. Volume of gravel ranges from 0 to 35 percent in the solum and 15 to 35 percent in the substratum. Volume of cobbles ranges from 0 to 10 percent throughout. Reaction ranges from very strongly acid to moderately acid in the upper part of the solum and from strongly acid to slightly acid below the spodic horizon.
The A horizon has hue of 5YR, 7.5YR, or 10YR or it is neutral in hue. Value is 2 to 3 and chroma is 0 to 2. It is loamy sand or sand.
The E horizon has hue of 5YR, 7.5YR, or 10YR; value of 4 to 6; and chroma of 2 or 3. It is loamy sand or sand.
The Bs horizon has hue of 5YR, value of 3 to 6, and chroma of 4 to 6 or hue of 7.5YR, value of 3 to 5, and chroma of 4 to 6. It is typically loamy sand, sand, loamy coarse sand, or coarse sand, but in some pedons it is the gravelly analogs.
The BC horizon has hue of 5YR, 7.5YR, or 10YR and value and chroma of 4 to 6. It is loamy sand, loamy coarse sand, sand, coarse sand or the gravelly analogs. BC horizons with spodic colors have pH greater than 5.9 or have organic carbon content less than 0.6 percent.
The C horizon has colors like the BC horizon. It is more than 90 percent sand. Stratification is common. Individual strata are sand or coarse sand or the gravelly, very gravelly or extremely gravelly analogs. Some pedons have thin strata of gravel.
COMPETING SERIES: These are the Duel, East Lake, Hartwick, Ishpeming, Karlin, Kiva, Rousseau, Rubicon, Sultz(T), and Vilas series. Duel and Ishpeming soils have a lithic contact at a depth of 20 to 40 inches. East Lake and Hartwick soils have free carbonates within 40 inches. Karlin soils have a mantle of sandy loam, fine sandy loam, or loamy fine sand in the upper part of the series control section and have less than 15 percent rock fragments. Kiva soils have a 10 to 20 inch loamy mantle and have free carbonates within 40 inches. Rousseau soils have more than 50 percent fine sand and no rock fragments in the series control section. Rubicon and Vilas soils have less than 15 percent rock fragments throughout the series control section. Sultz (T) soils have stratified loamy, or loamy and sandy, strata in the lower part of the series control section and average less than 90 percent sand there.
GEOGRAPHIC SETTING: These soils are on nearly level to very steep areas of outwash terraces, outwash plains, old beaches, kames, eskers, and other glaciofluvial areas within moraines. Slope gradients range from 0 to 60 percent. Slopes are complex in many places. Sayner soils formed in stratified or unsorted sandy and gravelly outwash. Mean annual precipitation ranges from 28 to 33 inches. Mean annual temperature range from 39 to 45 degrees F. The frost free period ranges from about 90 to 135 days. Elevation ranges from 680 to 1950 feet.
GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS: These are the Croswell, Pence, Rubicon, and Vilas soils all of which occur on similar landscape positions. Croswell Rubicon and Vilas soils are in areas where there is less gravel in the soil. Pence soils are in areas where there is a 10 to 20 inch loamy mantle.
DRAINAGE AND PERMEABILITY: Excessively drained. Runoff ranges from very slow to rapid. Permeability is moderately rapid or rapid in the solum and rapid or very rapid in the substratum.
USE AND VEGETATION: Most areas are in woodland. Only a small amount of this soil is in cropland. Native vegetation is coniferous and deciduous forest with red pine, eastern white pine, jack pine, northern red oak, red maple, paper birch, balsam fir, and quaking aspen predominating.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Northern Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. This series is of large extent.
MLRA SOIL SURVEY REGIONAL OFFICE (MO) RESPONSIBLE: St. Paul, Minnesota.
SERIES ESTABLISHED: Vilas County, Wisconsin, 1985.
REMARKS: Diagnostic horizons and features are: ochric epipedon - 0 to 4 inches (A, E); albic horizon - 2 to 4 inches (E); spodic horizon - 4 to 14 inches (Bs1, Bs2).
ADDITIONAL DATA: Soil Interpretation Record - WI0334.