IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Pond Creek
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2001OK017001
  • User Pedon ID: S2001OK017001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2001OK017001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 01N1209
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 13641
  • Print Date: 1/30/2025

    • 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: 35.5572522
  • Std. Longitude: -98.0164136
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 13N
  • Range: 8W
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: about 2250 N and 1270 W of the SE corner
  • Location Description: Canadian County, Oklahoma
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Oklahoma
  • County: OK017—Canadian
  • MLRA: 80A—Central Rolling Red Prairies
  • Regional Office: SC—South Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SC-STW—Stillwater, Oklahoma

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, thermic Pachic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Pond Creek
  • PSC - 37 to 87 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/22/2013
  • Classifier - KSSL
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Pond Creek
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, nonacid, thermic Pachic Argiustolls
  • PSC - 53 to 103 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/11/2001
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty alluvium
  • Landscape: alluvial plain
  • Landform: paleoterrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Ksat Class Upper: moderately high
  • Ksat Class Lower: moderately low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • 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
    R080AY056OK Loamy Upland Feb 22 2013

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/22/2013 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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

    CYDA

    Cynodon dactylon

    Bermudagrass

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—53

    53—203

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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

    0.5

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    A1—0 to 21 centimeters (0.0 to 8.3 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; 4 percent sand; 80 percent silt; 17 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; common (4.0) very fine roots throughout and common (4.0) fine roots throughout; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01N06166
    A2—21 to 37 centimeters (8.3 to 14.6 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; 15 percent sand; 58 percent silt; 22 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; common (4.0) very fine roots throughout and common (4.0) fine roots throughout; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01N06167
    BA—37 to 53 centimeters (14.6 to 20.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; clay loam; 20 percent sand; 53 percent silt; 27 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; common (3.0) very fine roots throughout and common (2.0) fine roots throughout; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01N06168
    Bt1—53 to 85 centimeters (20.9 to 33.5 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; silty clay loam; 16 percent sand; 53 percent silt; 30 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; few (0.8) very fine roots throughout and few (0.7) fine roots throughout; 50 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01N06169
    Bt2—85 to 105 centimeters (33.5 to 41.3 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; silty clay loam; 19 percent sand; 48 percent silt; 33 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; few (0.6) very fine roots throughout and few (0.5) fine roots throughout; 45 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01N06170
    Bt3—105 to 128 centimeters (41.3 to 50.4 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; clay loam; 26 percent sand; 43 percent silt; 31 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; 45 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent threadlike carbonate masses throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01N06171
    Bt4—128 to 158 centimeters (50.4 to 62.2 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; clay loam; 28 percent sand; 41 percent silt; 31 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 1 percent medium distinct gypsum crystals, unspecified in matrix; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01N06172
    Bt5—158 to 203 centimeters (62.2 to 79.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6), yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist; clay loam; 28 percent sand; 40 percent silt; 32 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm; 1 percent fine prominent gypsum crystals, unspecified in matrix; fragments; neutral, pH 7.1. Lab sample # 01N06173