IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Vanoss
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1953OK117035
  • User Pedon ID: S1953OK117035
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A4736
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41438
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 36.5325012
  • Std. Longitude: -96.7458344
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 24N
  • Range: 5E
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: 1300 feet N of the E quarter corner
  • Location Description: 2 mi. NW of Ralston.
  • Map Unit: VanA—Vanoss silt loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Oklahoma
  • County: OK117—Pawnee
  • MLRA: 80A—Central Rolling Red Prairies
  • Regional Office: SC—South Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SC-STW—Stillwater, Oklahoma
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36096-E6—Fairfax, Oklahoma

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: H. M. Galloway
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, thermic Udic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 35
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Vanoss
  • PSC - 69 to 104 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/17/2016
  • Classifier - Jerry Weinheimer
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Vanoss
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/1953
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium
  • Landscape: alluvial plain
  • Landform: paleoterrace
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/1/1953 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - close-grown crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—51

    69—104

    —51—

    —35—
    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

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/2) interior, brown (7.5YR 4/2) interior, moist; silt loam; 19 percent sand; 65 percent silt; 16 percent clay; weak fine and medium granular structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 40A35971. porous and permeable; grades shortly to horizon below
    A—15 to 51 centimeters (5.9 to 20.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2) interior, dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) interior, moist; silt loam; 11 percent sand; 66 percent silt; 23 percent clay; moderate fine and medium granular structure; fine worm casts; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 40A35972. porous and permeable; fine root hairs abundant; grades to horizon below.
    AB—51 to 69 centimeters (20.1 to 27.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/3) interior, brown (7.5YR 4/2) interior, moist; silty clay loam; 8 percent sand; 62 percent silt; 30 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 40A35973. porous and permeable; pin holes, root holes and worm casts abundant; grades through a short transition to horizon below.
    Bt1—69 to 84 centimeters (27.2 to 33.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/3) interior, brown (7.5YR 4/3) interior, moist; silty clay; 7 percent sand; 53 percent silt; 40 percent clay; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) fine distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky, and weak medium granular structure; friable; 5.5 fine tubular pores; 1 percent fine dark concretions; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 40A35974. few fine dark concretions concentrations; few fine distinct 10YR54 mottles
    Bt2—84 to 104 centimeters (33.1 to 40.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, moist; silty clay loam; 8 percent sand; 53 percent silt; 40 percent clay; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) fine distinct mottles; strong medium blocky structure; firm; 1 percent fine dark concretions; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 40A35975. slowly permeable; sides of blocks dark grayish brn and weakly shiny; grades to horizon below.; few fine dark concretions concentrations; few fine distinct 10YR54 mottles
    BC—104 to 119 centimeters (40.9 to 46.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/3) interior, brown (7.5YR 4/2) interior, moist; silty clay loam; 12 percent sand; 56 percent silt; 33 percent clay; 11 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) coarse distinct mottles; moderate medium granular, and weak medium blocky structure; firm; 15 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 40A35976. permeable; faint reddish brn specks and fine black concretions few.; few clay films surface features on faces of peds; common coarse distinct 7.5YR56 mottles
    C1—119 to 152 centimeters (46.9 to 59.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/2) interior, brown (7.5YR 4/2) interior, moist; silty clay loam; 14 percent sand; 56 percent silt; 30 percent clay; 11 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium distinct and 11 percent brown (7.5YR 4/2) medium distinct mottles; moderate medium granular structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 40A35977. some pores as large as 1/32" in diameter; occasional spots of light brn; black concretions and accretions few; grades through a 6 to 10" transition to horizon below.; common medium distinct 7.5YR56 mottles; common medium distinct 7.5YR42 mottles
    C2—152 to 239 centimeters (59.8 to 94.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior, dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) interior, moist; silty clay loam; 16 percent sand; 54 percent silt; 30 percent clay; weak medium granular structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 40A35978. has a few brn streaks from 1/8 to 1/4" in thickness. Continues with only a slight increase in reddish hue to greatest depth sampled.