LOCATION MOSEL WIEstablished Series
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Aquollic Hapludalfs
TYPICAL PEDON: Mosel loam - on a 2 percent slope in a cultivated field at an elevation of about 915 feet above mean sea level. (Colors are for moist soil unless otherwise stated.)
Ap--0 to 8 inches; very dark brown (10YR 2/2) loam, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) dry; moderate medium and fine granular structure; friable; moderately acid; abrupt smooth boundary. (7 to 9 inches thick)
E--8 to 15 inches; brown (10YR 5/3) sandy loam; weak medium platy structure; friable; tongues of very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) or very dark gray (10YR 3/1) penetrate this horizon; few fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of iron accumulation; slightly acid; clear smooth boundary. (0 to 7 inches thick)
BE--15 to 22 inches; brown (7.5YR 4/4) sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; common fine and medium distinct and prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/6 and 5/8) masses of iron accumulation in the matrix; few medium distinct brown (7.5YR 5/2) iron depletions; slightly acid; clear smooth boundary. (0 to 7 inches thick)
Bt1--22 to 30 inches; brown (7.5YR 4/4) and reddish brown (5YR 5/3) sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; few faint clay films; common medium distinct and prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/6 and 5/8) masses of iron accumulation in the matrix; common medium distinct reddish gray (5YR 5/2) iron depletions; neutral; clear smooth boundary. (4 to 10 inches thick)
2Bt2--30 to 36 inches; reddish brown (5YR 4/4) and yellowish red (5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; few faint clay films on faces of peds; many fine distinct reddish gray (5YR 5/2) and common fine distinct brown (7.5YR 5/2) iron depletions; slightly alkaline; gradual smooth boundary. (4 to 7 inches thick)
2C--36 to 60 inches; brown (7.5YR 5/4) silty clay loam with thin (0.1 to 1 inch) strata of silt loam and silt at intervals of 2 to 10 inches; massive breaking to weak medium to very thick plates along depositional cleavage planes; few medium prominent reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8) masses of iron accumulation; strongly effervescent; moderately alkaline.
TYPE LOCATION: Marquette County, Wisconsin; about 3 miles north of Westfield; 2,125 feet north and 1,785 feet east of the southwest corner of sec. 23, T. 17 N., R. 8 E. USGS Westfield West, Wisconsin Topographic quadrangle; lat. 43 degrees 55 minutes 44 seconds N., and long. 89 degrees 30 minutes 57 seconds W., NAD 27.
RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS: Thickness of the loamy outwash mantle ranges from 20 to 36 inches. Depth to the base of the argillic horizon and depth to carbonates both range from 20 to 40 inches but do not always coincide. The particle-size control section averages 18 to 35 percent clay and 20 to 50 percent fine sand or coarser. Volume of coarse fragments ranges from 0 to 20 percent in the loamy outwash. The underlying lacustrine deposits contain no rock fragments. Reaction ranges from medium acid to slightly alkaline in the upper part of the soil and is slightly alkaline or moderately alkaline in the lower part. Redox accumulations are throughout the soil below the A horizon and redox depletions with chroma of 2 or less are within the upper 10 inches of the argillic horizon.
The Ap or A horizon has hue of 10YR, value of 2 or 3, and chroma of 1 to 3. Texture is fine sandy loam, loam, or silt loam.
The E horizon has hue of 10YR, value of 4 or 5, and chroma of 2 or 3. Texture is sandy loam, fine sandy loam, loam or silt loam.
The BE horizon has hue of 7.5YR or 10YR, value of 4 or 5, and chroma of 3 or 4. Texture is sandy loam, sandy clay loam, clay loam, or loam.
The Bt horizon has hue of 7.5YR or 10YR value of 4 or 5, and chroma of 3 or 4. Texture is sandy loam, sandy clay loam, or clay loam.
The 2Bt horizon has hue of 10YR or 7.5YR, value of 4 or 5, and chroma of 3 to 6. It typically is silty clay loam, but some pedons have thin strata of silt loam, silty clay, or clay.
The 2C horizon has hue of 10YR, 7.5YR, or 5YR; value of 4 to 6; and chroma of 3 to 6. Texture typically is silty clay loam with thin strata of finer or coarser textures.
COMPETING SERIES: These are the Doolyville(T),
Kasson,
Lineville,
Newry, and
Oran series. None of these soils have stratification in the lower part of the series control section. In addition, Doolyville(T), Kasson, Newry, and Oran soils have rock fragments in the lower part of the series control section and
Linville soils do not have carbonate within the series control section.
GEOGRAPHIC SETTING: Mosel soils are on glacial lake basins and stream terraces. Slope ranges from 0 to 3 percent. The soils formed in a mantle of of loamy outwash and in the underlying mostly clayey and silty stratified lacustrine deposits. Mean annual precipitation ranges from 26 to 35 inches. Mean annual air temperature ranges from 45 to 51 degrees F.
GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS: The well drained and moderately well drained Hebron and very poorly drained Navan soils form a drainage sequence with Mosel soils and most commonly are associated in the nearly level or gently undulating landscapes. Mosel and Kibbie soils are in many places associated in the landscape, but they cannot be identified with or separated from each other by specific relief. All reflect the varying influences of stratification and overwash. Kibbie soils formed in thinly stratified silty and very fine sandy deposits.
DRAINAGE AND PERMEABILITY: Somewhat poorly drained. The potential for surface runoff is low. Permeability is moderate in the loamy outwash mantle and moderately slow in the stratified lacustrine deposit. These soil have a perched seasonal high water table at a depth of 1 to 2.5 feet.
USE AND VEGETATION: Most areas of this soil are used for cropland. Native vegetation is mixed woodland and prairie grass vegetation.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Principally in southeastern Wisconsin. The Mosel soils are of moderate extent.
MLRA OFFICE RESPONSIBLE: Indianapolis, Indiana
SERIES ESTABLISHED: Marquette County, Wisconsin, 1969.
REMARKS:
7/04 This revision redefines the series concept to include only those soils formed in a loamy outwash mantle and in the underlying silty and clayey stratified lacustrine deposits. Soils correlated as Mosel that formed in loamy outwash and clayey till are excluded. This includes at least some of the acreage in the Winnebago survey and possibly some in the Calumet-Manitowoc and Kewaunee surveys. These areas need to be correlated to another (new?) series when the surveys are updated.
Diagnostic horizons and feature recognized in the pedon are: ochric epipedon - 0 to 22 inches (Ap, E, BE); argillic horizon - 22 to 36 inches (Bt1, 2Bt2); aquic feature redoxomorphic depeletions with chroma of 2 or less and saturation within the upper 10 inches of the argillic horizon; mollic subgroup - Ap horizon with color value and chroma, moist, less than 4 and color value, dry, less than 6.