IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Okemah
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1962OK111001
  • User Pedon ID: 1962OK111001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A4718
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41420
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024
  • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 35.7372222
  • Std. Longitude: -96.1750000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15N
  • Range: 11E
  • Section: 31
  • PLSS Details: about 1350 feet S and 100 feet W of the NE corner
  • Map Unit: OkB—Okemah silt loam, 1 to 3 percent slopes
  • State: Oklahoma
  • County: OK111—Okmulgee
  • MLRA: 112—Cherokee Prairies
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OK111—Okmulgee County, Oklahoma
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 35096-F2—Nuyaka, Oklahoma
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Earl C. Nance, W.A. Sparwasser
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, thermic Aquic Paleudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Okemah (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 53 to 103 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/30/2008
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Okemah (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 53 to 103 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1962
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium or colluvium derived from shale
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: paleoterrace
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: limestone and shale
  • Geology: Pennsylvanian member of the Wann And Iola Formation formation in the Kc Group group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    R112XY059OK Loamy prairie (Northeast) PE 62-80
  • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1962 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
  • Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    1

    227.1

    1041

    15

    A1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) interior, dark gray (10YR 4/1) interior, dry; silt loam; strong fine subangular blocky parts to moderate medium and coarse granular structure; slightly hard, friable; 15 percent worm casts; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A35829. moderately acid Horizon was previously referred to as A1
    A2—10 to 30 centimeters (3.9 to 11.8 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior, dark gray (10YR 4/1) interior, dry; silt loam; strong fine subangular blocky parts to moderate medium and coarse granular structure; slightly hard, friable; 15 percent worm casts; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A35830. moderately acid Horizon was previously referred to as A2
    AB—30 to 53 centimeters (11.8 to 20.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior, dark gray (10YR 4/1) interior, dry; silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate medium and coarse granular structure; hard, firm; 1 percent fine iron-manganese concretions and 1 percent fine distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions and 1 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A35831. moderately acid Horizon was previously referred to as A3
    Bt1—53 to 74 centimeters (20.9 to 29.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior and reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior and olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) interior silty clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; clay films on all faces of peds and 1 percent slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent fine iron-manganese concretions; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A35832. slightly acid Horizon was previously referred to as Bt1
    Bt2—74 to 109 centimeters (29.1 to 42.9 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) interior and olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) interior and grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior and reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine iron-manganese concretions; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A35833. neutral Horizon was previously referred to as Btg
    Bt3—109 to 157 centimeters (42.9 to 61.8 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior and olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) interior and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior and dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) interior clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A35834. moderately alkaline Horizon was previously referred to as Bt3
    BC—157 to 201 centimeters (61.8 to 79.1 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) interior and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior clay; structureless massive; very hard, very firm; 1 percent iron concretions and 1 percent medium prominent gray (N 5/), moist, iron depletions and 1 percent medium prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent fine carbonate concretions; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 40A35835. moderately alkaline