LOCATION MEENON WIEstablished Series
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Clayey, smectitic, frigid Aquic Arenic Hapludalfs
TYPICAL PEDON: Meenon loamy sand, on an area with 1 percent slope, in a cultivated field, at an elevation of about 975 feet. (Colors are for moist soil unless otherwise noted.)
Ap--0 to 9 inches; very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) loamy sand, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) dry; weak medium granular structure; very friable; many fine to coarse roots; very strongly acid; clear smooth boundary. (5 to 9 inches thick)
Bw1--9 to 22 inches; dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; many fine to coarse roots; few fine rounded iron-manganese concretions; many coarse prominent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of iron accumulation; very strongly acid; clear wavy boundary.
Bw2--22 to 28 inches; yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; common fine roots; few fine rounded iron-manganese concretions; many coarse distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) iron depletions, and many coarse prominent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of iron accumulation; very strongly acid; abrupt wavy boundary. (Combined thickness of the Bw horizons ranges from 15 to 35 inches thick)
2Btg--28 to 41 inches; 40 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) and 60 percent olive gray (5Y 5/2) clay; strong medium prismatic structure and strong very fine angular blocky; firm; common medium roots and many fine; few lenses (2-5 mm thick and 25 mm long) of yellowish red (5YR 4/6) sandy loam; few fine rounded iron-manganese concretions; common fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and dark red (2.5YR 3/6) masses of iron accumulation; very strongly acid; abrupt wavy boundary. (4 to 40 inches thick)
3C--41 to 80 inches; brown (7.5YR 4/4) sand; single grain; loose; very strongly acid.
TYPE LOCATION: Burnett County, Wisconsin; about 1 mile west of Webster; 980 feet west and 100 feet north of the southeast corner of sec. 6, T. 39 N., R. 16 W.; USGS Yellow Lake quadrangle; lat. 45 degrees, 53 minutes, 22 seconds N. and long. 92 degrees, 23 minutes, 20 seconds W.; NAD27.
RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS: Thickness of the sandy mantle and depth to clayey glaciolacustrine deposits ranges from 20 to 40 inches. Depth to the sandy substratum ranges from 40 to 60 inches. Volume of gravel ranges from 0 to 15 percent in the sandy mantle and from 0 to 2 percent in the clayey lacustrine deposits and in the sandy substratum. Reaction ranges from very strongly acid to neutral in the sandy mantle and from extremely acid to slightly alkaline in the clayey subsoil. Reaction ranges from very strongly acid to slightly acid in the sandy substratum.
The Ap horizon has chroma of 2 or 3. Texture is loamy sand.
Uncultivated pedons have an A horizon with hue of 7.5YR or 10YR, value of 2 to 3, and chroma of 1 or 2.
The Bw horizon has hue of 7.5YR or 10YR, value of 3 to 6, and chroma of 2 to 6. Texture is sand, loamy sand, or loamy fine sand.
The 2Bt or 2Btg horizon has hue of 5YR, 7.5YR, 10YR, 2.5Y, or 5Y value of 4 to 6, and chroma of 1 to 4. The weighted average clay content is 50 to 80 percent.
The 3C horizon has hue of 5YR, 7.5YR or 10YR, value of 4 or 5, and chroma of 1 to 8. Texture is sand or fine sand, but some pedons have thin strata of loamy sand or sandy loam.
COMPETING SERIES: There are no competing series.
GEOGRAPHIC SETTING: The Meenon soils are on glacial lake plains. Slope gradients range from 0 to 3 percent. Meenon soils formed in a mantle of sandy outwash or sandy lacustrine deposits over clayey lacustrine deposits underlain by sandy outwash or sandy lacustrine deposits on lake plains or outwash plains. Mean annual temperature ranges from 40 to 42 degrees F. Mean annual precipitation ranges from 27 to 29 inches. The frost free period ranges from about 110 to 130 days. Elevation ranges from 960 to 1,100 feet.
GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS: These are the Dody(T), Karlsborg(T), and Perida(T) soils. The very poorly drained Dody(T), and the moderately well drained Karlsborg(T) soils form a drainage sequence with the Meenon soils. The moderately well drained Perida(T) soils occupy slightly higher landscape positions and the somewhat poorly drained Stengel (T) soil occupy similar landscape positions than Meenon soils, but the sandy mantle is more than 40 inches thick.
DRAINAGE AND PERMEABILITY: Somewhat poorly drained. Runoff is low. Permeability is rapid in the sandy mantle, slow or very slow in the clayey deposits, and rapid in the sandy substratum. These soils have a perched seasonal high water table for at a depth of 1.5 to 2.5 feet at some time during the period September to May in most years.
USE AND VEGETATION: Most of this soil is used for cropland. Common crops are corn, small grain, and hay. Native vegetation is a mixture of deciduous and coniferous forest. Common trees are jack pine, northern pin oak, quaking aspen, and eastern white pine.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Northwestern Wisconsin. This soil is of small extent.
MLRA SOIL SURVEY REGIONAL OFFICE (MO) RESPONSIBLE: St. Paul, Minnesota.
SERIES PROPOSED: Washburn County, Wisconsin, 2003. Source of the name is Meenon township in Burnett County.
REMARKS: The clayey layers are not dry enough in most years to crack enough to qualify for the Vertic subgroup. Aquic condition occur at depths of 20 to 30 inches in April and May.
Diagnostic horizons and features recognized in this pedon are:
ochric epipedon - zone from 0 to 9 inches (Ap);
argillic horizon - 28 to 41 inches (2Btg);
aquic feature - redox depletions with chroma of 2 or less 22-28 inches (Bw2);
arenic feature - sandy particle-size throughout the layer extending from the mineral soil surface to the top of the argillic horizon at a depth of 28 inches.
ADDITIONAL DATA: Soil Interpretation Record - WI0548. Refer to soil survey sample number S89WI-013-3 for NSSL data on the typical pedon.