IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Plack
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • Local Phase: loam
  • User Site ID: S1999OK139001
  • User Pedon ID: S1999OK139001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 00P0179
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 11687
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 36.6179428
  • Std. Longitude: -101.5782776
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Oklahoma
  • County: OK139—Texas
  • MLRA: 77A—Southern High Plains, Northern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OK139—Texas County, Oklahoma
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36101-E5—Goodwell SE, Oklahoma

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: T. Craig Byrd
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic, shallow Petrocalcic Calciustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Plack
  • PSC - 25 to 41 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/22/2021
  • Classifier - Steven McGowen
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Plack
  • Classificaton Date - 12/13/1999
  • Classifier - T. Craig Byrd
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Neogene calcareous loamy eolian deposits
  • Landscape: high plains
  • Landform: loess plain
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: rise
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • 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
    R077AY013TX Very Shallow 16-22" PZ

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/13/1999 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: T. Craig Byrd
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    petrocalcic

    strongly coherent

    41 - 140

    - 99 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    petrocalcic horizon

    0—41

    41—140

    —41—

    —99—
    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

    3

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    1018

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    330

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    A1—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) rubbed, moist; loam; moderate fine prismatic parts to moderate medium granular structure; hard when dry; 21.0 very fine roots throughout and 21.0 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P01363. 3 percent angular strongly 2 to 20 mm calcrete fragments; pH 8.0 Hellige-Truog. Lab sample # 99P159S
    A2—23 to 41 centimeters (9.1 to 16.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) rubbed, moist; very gravelly loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to prismatic, and moderate medium granular structure; hard when dry; 21.0 very fine roots throughout and 21.0 fine roots throughout; 40 percent fine irregular carbonate concretions throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P01364. many fine moderate continuity irregular and many fine moderate continuity irregular pores; 25 percent angular strongly 2 to 20 mm calcrete fragments; pH 8.0, Hellige-Truog. Lab sample # 99P160S
    Bkkm—41 to 61 centimeters (16.1 to 24.0 inches); white (10YR 8/1) exterior cemented material; 0.5 very fine roots in cracks; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P01365. petrocalcic; pH 8.0, Hellige-Truog. Lab sample # 99P161G
    Bkkm—61 to 140 centimeters (24.0 to 55.1 inches); white (10YR 8/1) exterior cemented material; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 00P01365. petrocalcic; pH 8.0, Hellige-Truog. Lab sample # 99P161G