LOCATION MOODIG WIEstablished Series
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Alfic Epiaquods
TYPICAL PEDON: Moodig sandy loam - on a concave, south facing slope of 2 percent in a wooded drainageway on a drumlin at an elevation of about 1,510 feet. (Colors are for moist soil unless otherwise stated.)
A--0 to 3 inches; very dark gray (10YR 3/1) sandy loam, gray (10YR 5/1) dry; moderate medium granular structure; friable; many fine, common medium, and few coarse roots; many fine irregular pores; common uncoated sand grains; few charcoal fragments; 8 percent gravel and about 5 percent cobbles; very strongly acid; abrupt wavy boundary. (0 to 5 inches thick)
E--3 to 5 inches; brown (7.5YR 5/2) gravelly sandy loam, light gray (5YR 7/1) dry; weak medium platy structure; very friable; many fine, common medium, and few coarse roots; many fine irregular pores: many very dark gray (10YR 3/1) and dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) worm casts; 12 percent gravel and about 5 percent cobbles; extremely acid; abrupt broken boundary. (0 to 6 inches thick)
Bhs-- 5 to 9 inches; dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) gravelly sandy loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; many fine, common medium, and few coarse roots; many fine irregular pores; 22 percent gravel and about 8 percent cobbles; extremely acid; clear smooth boundary. (0 to 5 inches thick)
Bs1--9 to 14 inches; dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) gravelly sandy loam; weak fine subangular block structure; very friable; many fine and few medium roots; many fine irregular pores; common medium and few fine tubular pores; few fine prominent dark reddish brown (2.5YR 2/4) masses of iron accumulation in the matrix; few fine prominent very dusky red (2.5YR 2/2) concretions (iron and manganese oxides); 16 percent gravel and about 9 percent cobbles; very strongly acid; clear wavy boundary.
Bs2--14 to 22 inches; brown (7.5YR 4/4) sandy loam; weak medium subangular block structure; friable; many fine and few medium roots; many fine irregular pores; few fine and medium tubular pores; few fine prominent dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) and common medium prominent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) masses of iron accumulation in the matrix; few fine prominent dark reddish brown (5YR 2/2) concretions (iron and manganese oxides); 9 percent gravel and about 3 percent cobbles; very strongly acid; clear wavy boundary. (Combined thickness of the Bs horizon ranges from 4 to 16 inches.)
E/B--22 to 33 inches; 70 percent brown (10YR 5/3) loamy sand and sandy loam (E), very pale brown (10YR 7/3) dry; weak medium platy structure; very friable; surrounds remnants of brown (7.5YR 4/4) sandy loam (Bt); weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; few prominent dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) clay films on faces of peds; few fine and medium roots; many fine irregular pores; few fine and medium tubular pores; common medium faint and prominent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) iron depletions in the matrix; common fine prominent dark red (2.5YR 3/6) and common medium prominent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) masses of iron accumulation in the matrix; 11 percent gravel and about 3 percent cobbles; strongly acid; abrupt wavy boundary.
B/E--33 to 53 inches; 60 percent brown (7.5YR 4/3) gravelly sandy loam (Bt); moderate very fine angular blocky structure; friable; tends to break to moderate medium plates along horizontal cleavage planes inherited from the parent material; few distinct reddish brown (5YR 4/3) clay films on faces of peds; penetrated by tongues of brown (7.5YR 5/3) sandy loam (E), pink (7.5YR 7/3) dry; weak medium platy structure; very friable; few fine roots; few fine and medium tubular pores; common coatings of brown (10YR 5/3) clean sand grains on faces of plates; few medium distinct brown (10YR 5/3) iron depletions in the matrix; common coarse prominent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) masses of iron accumulation in the matrix; few thin (1-3 inch) discontinuous lenses of weak red (2.5YR 5/2) and brown (7.5YR 5/3) sandy loam bordered by 0.25 inch of dark red (2.5YR 3/6) sandy loam; 17 percent gravel and about 5 percent cobbles; moderately acid; gradual wavy boundary. (Glossic horizon - 10 to 40 inches thick)
Bt--53 to 73 inches; brown (7.5YR 4/3) gravelly sandy loam; moderate very fine angular blocky structure; friable; tends to break to moderate medium plates along horizontal cleavage planes inherited from the parent material; common distinct reddish brown (5YR 4/3) clay films on faces of peds; common coatings of brown (10YR 5/3) clean sand grains on faces of plates; few medium prominent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) masses of iron accumulation in the matrix; 23 percent gravel and about 5 percent cobbles; slightly acid; gradual wavy boundary. (0 to 20 inches thick)
C--73 to 95 inches; brown (7.5YR 4/3) gravelly sandy loam; massive; friable; 23 percent gravel and about 10 percent cobbles; slightly acid.
TYPE LOCATION: Lincoln County, Wisconsin; about 1 mile north and 5 miles west of Bradley; 990 feet south and 550 feet west of the northeast corner, sec. 4, T. 35 N., R. 5 E. USGS Bradley, Wis. Quad. Latitude 45 degrees 33 minutes 9 seconds N. Longitude 89 degrees 51 minutes 36 seconds W. NAD 27.
RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS: Depth to the base of the argillic horizon ranges from 40 to more than 80 inches. The particle-size control section averages between 5 and 17 percent clay and from 45 to 75 percent fine sand or coarser. Volume of rock fragments averages less than 35 percent in the particle-size control section . Volume of gravel ranges from 2 to 35 percent and volume of cobbles ranges from 0 to 15 percent throughout. Reaction typically ranges from extremely acid to strongly acid in the upper part of the solum, but ranges to neutral in the Ap horizon, where the soil is limed. Reaction ranges from strongly acid to slightly acid in the lower part of the subsoil and in the substratum. Redox concentrations are in the albic or spodic horizons within a depth of 20 inches. Saturation occurs within 20 inches at some time in most years.
The A horizon has hue of 5YR, 7.5YR, or 10YR; value of 2 or 3; and chroma of 1 or 2. Some pedons have an Ap horizon with similar hues, value of 3 or 4, and chroma of 2 or 3. Texture is sandy loam or fine sandy loam.
The E horizon has hue of 5YR, 7.5YR, or 10YR; value of 4 to 6; and chroma of 2 or 3. Colors of 4/3 and 5/3 have value dry of 7 or more. Typically texture is loam, fine sandy loam, sandy loam or the gravelly analogs but in some pedons it is loamy sand or gravelly loamy sand.
The Bhs horizon has hue of 2.5YR, 5YR, or 7.5YR and value and chroma of 2 or 3. Texture is sandy loam, fine sandy loam, loam, or the gravelly analogs.
The Bs horizon has hue of 2.5YR or 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. It has texture like the Bhs horizon above.
Some pedons have an E' horizon with hue of 5YR, 7.5YR, or 10YR; value of 4 to 6; and chroma of 2 or 3. Texture is sandy loam, fine sandy loam, loam, loamy sand, or the gravelly analogs.
Moodig soils have a glossic horizon (E/B or B/E horizons, or both). The E' part of these horizons has color and texture like the E' horizon described above. The Bt part has hue of 2.5YR, 5YR, 7.5YR, or 10YR; value of 4 or 5; and chroma of 3 or 4. Texture is sandy loam, fine sandy loam, loam, or the gravelly analogs.
The Bt horizon has colors like the Bt part described above. Typically, texture is sandy loam, fine sandy loam or the gravelly analogs but thin subhorizons of loamy sand or gravelly loamy sand are in some pedons. Some pedons with a B/E horizon do not have a Bt horizon.
The C horizon has hue of 2.5YR, 5YR, 7.5YR, or 10YR; value of 4 or 5; and chroma of 3 or 4. Typically, texture is sandy loam or gravelly sandy loam. In some pedons, loamy sand or gravelly loamy sand occurs below 40 inches.
COMPETING SERIES: These are the Belding, Mudlake, Parkfalls, Pesabic, and Worwood series. A similar soil is the Monico series. Belding, Parkfalls, and Pesabic soils have a densic contact in the lower part of the series control section. Mudlake soils have more than 50 percent silt in the upper 12 to 40 inches of the series control section. Worwood soils have more than 85 percent sand (stratified sandy outwash) within a depth of 40 inches and have stratified loamy and sandy textures within 60 inches. Monico soils do not have an argillic horizon.
GEOGRAPHIC SETTING: Moodig soils are in depressions and drainageways on moraines and drumlins. Slopes range from 0 to 4 percent. These soils formed in till which is mostly sandy loam. Mean annual precipitation ranges from 28 to 33 inches. Mean annual air temperature ranges from 39 to 45 degrees F. The frost free period ranges from about 90 to 135 days. Elevation ranges from 700 to 1950 feet.
GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS: These are the Sarona, Sarwet, Keweenaw, and Capitola soils. The well-drained Keweenaw soils, the moderately well drained Sarwet soils, and the well drained Sarona soils are on higher landscape positions. The poorly drained Capitola soils are in lower landscape positions.
DRAINAGE AND PERMEABILITY: Somewhat poorly drained. The potential for surface runoff ranges from negligible to low. Permeability is moderate in the solum and moderate or moderately rapid in the substratum. A perched seasonal high water table is at a depth of 0.5 to 2 feet for 1 month or more per year at some time during the period September to June in 6 or more out of 10 years years.
USE AND VEGETATION: Most areas are used for woodland. Common trees are sugar maple, red maple, yellow birch, balsam fir, quaking aspen, white ash, eastern hemlock, and paper birch. Some areas are used for cropland. Corn, small grain, and hay are common crops.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Northern Wisconsin. This series is of moderate extent.
MLRA SOIL SURVEY REGIONAL OFFICE (MO) RESPONSIBLE: St. Paul, Minnesota
SERIES ESTABLISHED: Lincoln County, Wisconsin, 1993.
REMARKS: Diagnostic horizons and features recognized in this soil: ochric epipedon - 0 to 5 inches (A, E); albic horizon - 3 to 5 inches (E); spodic horizon - 5 to 22 inches (Bhs, Bs1, Bs2); glossic horizon - 22 to 53 inches (E/B, B/E); argillic horizon - 33 to 73 inches (B/E, Bt); aquic feature - mottles in the spodic horizon within a depth of 20 inches and saturation within 20 inches.
ADDITIONAL DATA: Refer to soil survey sample number S91WI-069-285 for NSSL data on the typical pedon.