IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bigheart
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2008OK03717
  • User Pedon ID: BSPSA-2008-OK037-17
  • Vegetation Plot ID: BSPSA-2008-OK037-17
  • Transect:
  • Transect Stop Number - 1
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0543
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 20091
  • Print Date: 1/29/2025

    • 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: 35.8718987
  • Std. Longitude: -96.2069397
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 16N
  • Range: 10E
  • Section: 12
  • PLSS Details: SW 1/2
  • Map Unit: NBRE—Niotaze-Bigheart-Rock outcrop complex, 3 to 15 percent slopes, very stony
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Oklahoma
  • County: OK037—Creek
  • MLRA: 84A—North Cross Timbers
  • Regional Office: SC—South Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SC-STW—Stillwater, Oklahoma
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 35096-G2—Kiefer SW, Oklahoma

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jake Boyett
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, siliceous, active, thermic Lithic Eutrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 17
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bigheart
  • PSC - 0 to 25 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/31/2016
  • Classifier - Jerry Weinheimer
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bigheart
  • Classificaton Date - 1/10/2008
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from sandstone
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: low hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent moderate weathered sandstone and shale at 10cm with 10 to <45
  • Surface Fragments: 1.00 percent flat 75- to 250-millimeter sandstone, unspecified,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/10/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ANGE

    QUST

    SCSC

    Andropogon gerardii

    Quercus stellata

    Schizachyrium scoparium

    big bluestem

    post oak

    little bluestem

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    moderately coherent

    25 - 50

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    paralithic contact

    0—

    25—50

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    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

    5

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    251

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    270

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) very fine sandy loam; 53 percent sand; 40 percent silt; 8 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; fragments; clear boundary.; observed in shovel slice
    Bw—8 to 25 centimeters (3.1 to 9.8 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) fine sandy loam; 60 percent sand; 35 percent silt; 6 percent clay; 20 percent by volume moderately coherent cemented 76 - 250-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume weakly coherent cemented 5 - 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; gradual boundary.; observed in shovel slice
    Cr—25 to 50 centimeters (9.8 to 19.7 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) bedrock; fragments.