LOCATION NEWLANG WIEstablished Series
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Siliceous, mesic Humaqueptic Psammaquents
TYPICAL PEDON: Newlang muck - on a plane 1 percent north-facing slope in a sparse stand of red maple and aspen at an elevation of about 970 feet. (Colors are for moist soil unless otherwise stated.)
Oa--0 to 3 inches; black (10YR 2/1) muck, black (10YR 2/1) dry; weak coarse granular structure; very friable; many very fine and fine roots; few clean sand grains; very strongly acid; clear wavy boundary. (0 to 7 inches thick)
A--3 to 6 inches; black (10YR 2/1) loamy sand, black (10YR 2/1) dry; weak medium granular structure; very friable; many very fine to coarse roots; many clean sand grains; extremely acid; clear wavy boundary. (1 to 5 inches thick.)
Bg--6 to 22 inches; dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) sand; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; common very fine to coarse roots; many faint very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) organic coatings on faces of peds; few fine prominent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) masses of iron accumulation along root channels; very strongly acid; clear wavy boundary. (6 to 30 inches thick)
C--22 to 63 inches; pale brown (10YR 6/3) sand; single grain; loose; the color is that of the uncoated sand grains; slightly acid.
TYPE LOCATION: Jackson County, Wisconsin; about 2.5 miles south and 5 miles east of Taylor; 2640 feet south and 940 feet west of the northeast corner of sec. 20, T. 21 N., R. 5 W.
RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS: (Unless otherwise stated, thickness and depth in the following paragraph are measured from the top of the mineral soil.) Thickness of the solum ranges from 15 to 40 inches. The control section has more than 50 percent medium, coarse, and very coarse sand and less than 25 percent coarse and very coarse sand. The soil has less than 10 percent weatherable minerals throughout (0.02 to 2 mm fraction). Base saturation (by NH4OAc) is less than 50 percent in some part within 40 inches. Volume of chert or sandstone gravel or channers ranges from 0 to 5 percent throughout the pedon. Reaction ranges from extremely acid to moderately acid in the upper part of the solum and from moderately acid to neutral in the lower part of the solum and in the substratum. Redox accumulations are in or below the A horizon, or both, in some pedons. Redox depletions with chroma of 2 or less are typically 50 percent or more of the matrix below the A horizon and within 20 inches. Aquic conditions occur within a depth of 1 foot for long periods in most years.
The Oa horizon has hue of 10YR or it is neutral in hue. Value is 2 or 3; and chroma is 0 or 1.
The A horizon has hue of 7.5YR, 10YR or 2.5 or it is neutral in hue. Value is 2 or 3 and chroma is 0 to 2. It is mucky sand, mucky loamy sand, sand, or loamy sand.
The Bg horizon has hue of 10YR, 2.5Y, or 5Y; value of 4 to 6; and chroma of 1 or 2. It is the color of the uncoated sand grains with some organic staining.
Some pedons have a BCg or BC horizon with hue of 10YR, 2.5Y or 5Y; value of 5 or 6; and chroma of 1 to 6. The color is that of the uncoated sand grains.
The C or Cg horizon has hue of 5YR, 7.5YR, 10YR, or 2.5Y; value of 4 to 8; and chroma of 2 to 6. The color is that of the uncoated sand grains.
COMPETING SERIES: There are no competing series. Similar soils are the Ponycreek and Newson series. Ponycreek soils are frigid. Newson soils have mixed mineralogy.
GEOGRAPHIC SETTING: Newlang soils are on flood plains. Slope gradients range from 0 to 2 percent. Newlang soils formed in siliceous sandy alluvium. Mean annual precipitation ranges from 28 to 33 inches. Mean annual temperature ranges from 46 to 50 degrees F. The frost free period ranges from about 120 to 150 days. Elevation ranges from 700 to 1200 feet.
GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS: These are the Adder and Majik series. The very poorly drained Adder soils are nearby where there is an organic layer 16 to 51 inches thick over the sand. The somewhat poorly drained Majik soils are on nearby stream terraces.
DRAINAGE AND PERMEABILITY: Poorly drained. Runoff is very slow or ponded. Permeability is rapid. These soils are subject to occasional flooding of brief duration. The most likely period is March to June but flooding can occur at any time after heavy rains. Newlang soils have an apparent seasonal high water table from 1 foot above to 1 foot below the surface for 1 month or more per year at some time during the period October to June in 6 or more out of 10 years.
USE AND VEGETATION: Most areas are in woodland or marsh vegetation. Common trees are paper birch, quaking aspen, and eastern white pine. Some areas are used for unimproved pastureland. A few areas have been drained and are used for cropland.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: West-central Wisconsin. The soil is of small extent.
MLRA SOIL SURVEY REGIONAL OFFICE (MO) RESPONSIBLE: St. Paul, Minnesota
SERIES ESTABLISHED: Jackson County, Wisconsin, 1994.
REMARKS: Diagnostic features recognized in this pedon are: siliceous feature - less than 10 percent weatherable minerals in the particle-size control section (0.02 to 2 mm fraction); humaqueptic feature - the upper soil to a depth of 6 inches or more, after mixing, has value moist of 3 or less and value dry of 5 or less and the soil has base saturation (by NH4OAc) of less than 50 percent in some part within 40 inches; aquic feature - dominant chroma of 2 or less in the matrix with redox features and aquic conditions at a depth of 16 to 20 inches.
ADDITIONAL DATA: Soil Interpretation Record - WI0472. Refer to soil survey sample number S90WI-053-3 for NSSL data on the typical pedon.