IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Irene
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • Local Phase: silt loam
  • User Site ID: S2004OK007005
  • User Pedon ID: S2004OK007005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N1157
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16914
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 36.6538048
  • Std. Longitude: -100.6100006
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2N
  • Range: 23E
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: NW1/4
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Oklahoma
  • County: OK007—Beaver
  • MLRA: 77E—Southern High Plains, Breaks
  • Regional Office: SC—South Central
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OK007—Beaver County, Oklahoma
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36100-F5—Balko NE, Oklahoma

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Steven McGowen, Jim Ford, Troy Collier, Charles Cail, Richard Gelnar, Tyson Morley, T. Craig Byrd
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, thermic Pachic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Irene (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 28 to 78 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/21/2008
  • Classifier - Steven McGowen
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Irene
  • Classificaton Date - 9/15/2004
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Pleistocene or Holocene silty alluvium
  • Landscape: dissected high plains
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/15/2004 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 100
  • 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
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    secondary carbonates

    0—77

    28—149

    55—190

    —77—

    —121—

    —135—
    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

    2

    —

    —

    818

    —

    180

    530

    —

    188

    14

    —

    —

    15

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    Ap—0 to 28 centimeters (0.0 to 11.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) rubbed, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) rubbed, moist; silt loam; moderate medium granular, and moderate fine granular structure; soft; many very fine roots and many medium roots and many fine roots; few medium and few fine pores; 25 percent worm casts; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in trench
    Bt—28 to 55 centimeters (11.0 to 21.7 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) broken face, moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard; many very fine roots and common fine roots; many very fine and common fine pores; 15 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 25 percent worm casts; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary.; observed in trench. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1730705; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1730705
    Btk1—55 to 77 centimeters (21.7 to 30.3 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to strong medium subangular blocky structure; hard; common very fine roots and few medium roots and common fine roots; few very fine and few fine pores; 15 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent worm casts and 1 percent fine threadlike carbonate masses on surfaces along root channels; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary.; observed in trench. Some areas have slight effervescence - root channels have slight effervescence.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 269199; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 269199
    Btk2—77 to 109 centimeters (30.3 to 42.9 inches); 10YR 5/5 (10YR 5/5) broken face and brown (10YR 5/3) exterior, brown (10YR 4/3) broken face and dark brown (10YR 3/3) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; strong medium prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; hard; few very fine roots and few fine roots; few very fine pores; 20 percent distinct organic stains on vertical faces of peds and 35 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine threadlike carbonate masses on surfaces along root channels and 1 percent medium irregular carbonate nodules in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; observed in trench. Few coarse sand grains. Organic stains on ped faces. Exterior colors are for the organic stained ped surfaces.; continuous - phpvsfiid 269200; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 269201; continuous - phpvsfiid 269200; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 269201
    Btk3—109 to 149 centimeters (42.9 to 58.7 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) broken face, brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, moist; silty clay loam; strong medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard; few very fine roots; few very fine pores; 10 percent distinct organic stains on vertical faces of peds and 15 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds and 15 percent faint carbonate coats on vertical faces of peds; 10 percent fine irregular carbonate nodules in matrix and 5 percent fine threadlike carbonate masses on surfaces along root channels and 1 percent medium irregular carbonate nodules in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; observed in trench. Estimated 15% visable carbonates.; continuous - phpvsfiid 269203; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 269204; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 269205; continuous - phpvsfiid 269203; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 269204; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 269205
    BCk—149 to 190 centimeters (58.7 to 74.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face, moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to weak very thin platy structure; slightly hard; common very fine roots and few medium roots; common very fine and few fine pores; 3 percent faint carbonate coats on vertical faces of peds; 5 percent fine irregular carbonate nodules in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n.; observed in trench. Prismatic structure parts to relict bedding planes of stratified parent material. Thin 1/2" bedding planes of 5-20mm gravels adn carbonate particles with thin horizontal strata of silt.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 269206; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 269206