LOCATION PEEKSVILLE WIEstablished Series
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Coarse-loamy, isotic, frigid Alfic Epiaquods
TYPICAL PEDON: Peeksville fine sandy loam, on a linear, west-facing 2 percent slope, in a hardwood forest, at an elevation of about 1,483 feet. (Colors are for moist soil unless otherwise stated.)
A--0 to 5 inches; very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) fine sandy loam, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) dry; weak fine granular structure; friable; many fine and common medium roots; 1 percent cobbles and 4 percent gravel; strongly acid; abrupt wavy boundary. (0 to 6 inches thick)
E--5 to 8 inches; brown (10YR 5/3) fine sandy loam, very pale brown (10YR 7/3) dry; weak fine platy structure; friable; common fine and medium roots; 1 percent cobbles and 4 percent gravel; strongly acid; abrupt wavy boundary. (0 to 6 inches thick)
Bs1--8 to 12 inches; dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; common fine and few medium roots; 1 percent cobbles and 4 percent gravel; strongly acid; clear wavy boundary.
Bs2--12 to 17 inches; brown (7.5YR 4/4) fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; few fine roots; few medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) masses of iron accumulation; 1 percent cobbles and 5 percent gravel; strongly acid; clear wavy boundary. (Combined thickness of the Bs horizon ranges from 4 to 16 inches.)
2E/B--17 to 30 inches; 70 percent brown (10YR 5/3) sandy loam (E), very pale brown (10YR 7/3) dry; weak medium platy structure; friable; surrounds remnants of brown (7.5YR 4/4) sandy loam (Bt); weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; few fine roots; common coarse faint brown (7.5YR 5/2) iron depletions and common medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) masses of iron accumulation; 1 percent cobbles and 9 percent gravel; strongly acid; clear wavy boundary. (glossic horizon ranges from 4 to 20 inches thick)
2Bt--30 to 33 inches; brown (7.5YR 4/4) sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; few distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) clay films on faces of peds; friable; few fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of iron accumulation; 1 percent cobbles and 9 percent gravel; moderately acid; clear wavy boundary. (3 to 12 inches thick)
2BCd--33 to 48 inches; brown (7.5YR 4/4) sandy loam; massive, tending to part along horizontal cleavage planes inherited from the parent material; firm; few fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) masses of iron accumulation in fracture planes; 1 percent cobbles and 9 percent gravel; moderately acid; gradual wavy boundary. (0 to 30 inches thick)
3Cd--48 to 80 inches; reddish brown (5YR 4/4) loamy sand, with pockets or seams of sandy loam; massive, tending to part along horizontal cleavage planes inherited from the parent material; firm; 1 percent cobbles and 7 percent gravel; slightly acid.
TYPE LOCATION: Price County, Wisconsin; about 3 miles west of Fifield; 300 feet north and 100 feet west of the southeast corner of sec. 4, T. 39 N., R. 1 W.; USGS Park Falls, Wis. topographic quadrangle; lat. 45 degrees 52 minutes 54.5 seconds N. and long. 90 degrees 29 minutes 30.5 seconds W., NAD 83.
RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS: Depth to the dense sandy or loamy till ranges from 24 to 40 inches. Content of clay averages from 3 to 7 percent in the particle-size control section and the content of sand coarser than very fine averages 35 to 70 percent. Coarse fragments are dominantly of igneous origin and are of mixed lithology. Total volume of rock fragment ranges from 0 to 15 percent in the loamy alluvium, 0 to 25 percent in the loamy till, and 5 to 35 percent in the dense till. Volume of gravel ranges from 0 to 15 percent in the loamy alluvium and 5 to 25 percent in the loamy till and from 5 to 30 percent in the dense till. Volume of cobbles ranges from 0 to 7 percent and volume of stones ranges from 0 to 3 percent throughout. Surface stones have coverage ranging from 0 to 3 percent. Reaction ranges from very strongly acid to moderately acid in the loamy alluvium and loamy till and from strongly acid to slightly acid in the dense till. Redoximorphic features and aquic conditions occur within 20 inches of the mineral soil surface in the albic or spodic horizons.
A horizon
Hue: 7.5YR or 10YR
Value: 2 or 3
Chroma: 1 or 2
Texture: fine sandy loam
Cultivated pedons have an Ap horizon
Hue: 7.5YR or 10YR
Value: 2 or 3
Chroma: 1 or 2
Texture: fine sandy loam
E horizon
Hue: 7.5YR or 10YR
Value: 4 or 5
Chroma: 2 or 3
(Colors of 4/3 or 5/3 have value dry of 6 or more)
Texture: fine sandy loam or sandy loam
Bs horizon
Hue: 7.5YR
Value: 3 to 5
Chroma: 4
Texture: fine sandy loam or sandy loam
Peeksville soils have a glossic horizon. Horizonation has a wide range depending on the thickness of the loamy alluvium and degree to which eluviation has occurred. Therefore, there can be E/B, B/E, 2E/B, or 2B/E horizons singularly or in combination. The E part of the E/B or B/E horizon has hue of 7.5YR or 10YR, value of 4 to 6, and chroma of 3. Colors of 4/3 or 5/3 have value, dry of 7 or more. The Bt part of the E/B or B/E horizon has hue of 5YR or 7.5YR, value of 4 or 5, and chroma of 3 or 4. Texture is fine sandy loam or sandy loam. The E part of the 2E/B or 2B/E horizons has colors similar to the E described above. The Bt part has colors similar to those of the 2Bt horizon described below. Texture for the 2E/B or 2B/E is sandy loam or gravelly sandy loam. Bulk density ranges from 1.65 to 1.80 gm/cc in the glossic. The B/E or 2B/E horizon does not have the clay increase to meet the requirements for an argillic horizon.
2Bt horizon
Hue: 5YR or 7.5YR
Value: 4 or 5
Chroma: 3 or 4
Texture: sandy loam or gravelly sandy loam
2BCd horizon
Hue: 5YR or 7.5YR
Value: 4
Chroma: 3 or 4
Texture: sandy loam or gravelly sandy loam
Moist bulk density--1.80 to 2.00 gm/cc
3BCd and 3Cd horizons
Hue: 5YR or 7.5YR
Value: 4
Chroma: 3 or 4
Texture: predominantly loamy sand or gravelly loamy sand, but some pedons have sandy loam or gravelly sandy loam textures
Clay content in the dense till--2 to 7 percent
Moist bulk density--1.85 to 2.00 gm/cc
COMPETING SERIES: This is the Torch series. Torch soils have a loess cap 12 to 30 inches thick that averages more than 50 percent silt.
GEOGRAPHIC SETTING:
Parent material: loamy alluvium and in loamy till underlain by dense loamy and mostly sandy lodgement till
Landform: drumlins
Slope: 0 to 4 percent
Elevation: 1100 to 1650 feet
Mean annual air temperature: 39 to 45 degrees F
Mean annual precipitation: 28 to 33 inches
Frost-free period: 90 to 120 days
GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS: These are the Butternut, Cable, Shanagolden, and Torch soils. The moderately well drained Shanagolden soils and the very poorly drained Cable soils form a hydrosequence with the Peeksville soils. The moderately well drained Butternut soils and the somewhat poorly drained Torch soils are associated in areas where there is a silty mantle.
DRAINAGE AND PERMEABILITY: Somewhat poorly drained. Potential for surface runoff is negligible or medium. Permeability is moderate in the loamy alluvium, moderate or moderately slow in the loamy till, and slow in the dense till. Peeksville soils have a seasonal perched water table at a depth of 0.5 to 2 feet for at some time during the period October to June in most years.
USE AND VEGETATION: These soils are mostly in woodland. Common trees are red maple, sugar maple, eastern hemlock, paper birch, and northern red oak with eastern hophornbeam, bigtooth aspen, white ash and yellow birch as associates in most stands. Some areas are cleared and used for pastureland or cropland. Corn, small grains, and hay are the common crops.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Northwestern Wisconsin; LRR K and MLRA 90A. The soil is of small extent.
MLRA SOIL SURVEY REGIONAL OFFICE (MO) RESPONSIBLE: St. Paul, Minnesota; MLRA SSO 10-9 (Rhinelander, Wisconsin).
SERIES ESTABLISHED: Price County, Wisconsin, 2005. Source of the name is a township in southern Ashland County.
REMARKS: Diagnostic horizons and features recognized in this pedon are:
Particle-size control section--the zone from 10 to 40 inches;
Ochric horizon--0 to 5 inches (A);
Albic horizon--5 to 8 inches (E), and 17 to 30 inches (E part of E/B);
Spodic horizon--8 to 17 inches (Bs1, Bs2);
Glossic horizon--17 to 30 inches (E/B);
Argillic horizon--30 to 33 inches (2Bt) - he 2Bt is considered argillic because of the lithologic discontinuity;
Aquic feature--redoximorphic features within 20 inches of the mineral soil surface in an albic or spodic horizon;
Densic feature--the contact with dense till (BCd and 2Cd) at 33 inches;
Lithologic discontinuity--at the upper boundary of the 2Cd horizon at 48 inches.
These soils may be in the early stages of fragipan development. A decision was made to recognize these dense layers (BCd, 2Cd) as densic material at this time.
Only series status, responsibility, and scrivener's errors changed - 4/09.
ADDITIONAL DATA: Refer to soil survey sample numbers S03WI-099-006 for NSSL data on a similar pedon.