IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dale
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1956OK003002
  • User Pedon ID: S1956OK003002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A4706
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41408
  • Print Date: 4/27/2025

    • 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: 36.7249985
  • Std. Longitude: -98.3777771
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 26N
  • Range: 11W
  • Section: 15
  • PLSS Details: 0.3 mile E and 100 feet N of the SW corner
  • Location Description: Alfalfa County, OK.
  • Map Unit: GrB—Grant silt loam, 1 to 3 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Oklahoma
  • County: OK003—Alfalfa
  • MLRA: 80A—Central Rolling Red Prairies
  • Regional Office: SC—South Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SC-STW—Stillwater, Oklahoma
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36098-F4—Lambert, Oklahoma

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Louis E Derr
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, thermic Pachic Haplustolls
  • 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 #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Dale
  • PSC - 25 to 102 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/25/2013
  • Classifier - Jerry Weinheimer
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Grant
  • Classificaton Date - 6/6/1956
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Landscape: alluvial plain
  • Landform: paleoterrace
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1956 (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

    secondary carbonates

    0—71

    51—86

    86—183

    —71—

    —35—

    —97—
    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 (10YR 4/3) interior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, moist; silt loam; 39 percent sand; 50 percent silt; 11 percent clay; weak very fine granular structure; , 2 percent by weight nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-10-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by weighed method; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 40A35741. Tillage or shear line
    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; loam; 38 percent sand; 44 percent silt; 18 percent clay; moderate very fine granular structure; very friable; , 4 percent by weight nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-10-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by weighed method; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A35742. thoroughly reworked by insects.
    Bw1—51 to 71 centimeters (20.1 to 28.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2) interior, dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) interior, moist; loam; 38 percent sand; 40 percent silt; 22 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; friable; , 2 percent by weight nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-10-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by weighed method; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A35743. No clay skins; neutral
    Bw2—71 to 86 centimeters (28.0 to 33.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior, yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior, moist; coarse sandy loam; 61 percent sand; 25 percent silt; 14 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; friable; , 10 percent by weight nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-10-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by weighed method; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 40A35744. structure not visible when moisture conditons approximate field capacity.
    BCk—86 to 183 centimeters (33.9 to 72.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/8) interior, yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior, moist; gravelly coarse sandy loam; 71 percent sand; 21 percent silt; 9 percent clay; structureless granular structure; friable; , 13 percent by weight nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-10-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by weighed method and , 5 percent by weight nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-5-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by weighed method. Lab sample # 40A35745. a small percent of fine and medium quartz gravels are present; this is not weakly consolidated sandstone that makes up the C horizons of many of the Grant soils.