IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bucyrus
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2007OK097112
  • User Pedon ID: S2007OK097112
  • User Site Association ID: MLRA 112 Bucyrus Newtonia project
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0026
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19514
  • Print Date: 4/26/2025

    • 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: 36.2797470
  • Std. Longitude: -95.1809464
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 21 N
  • Range: 20 E
  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: 500 feet north and 1050 feet east of the southwest corner
  • Location Description: Grand River Hardwoods, Virgil Tipton
  • Map Unit: LuB—Lula silt loam, 1 to 3 percent slopes
  • State: Oklahoma
  • County: OK097—Mayes
  • MLRA: 112—Cherokee Prairies
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OK097—Mayes County, Oklahoma
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36095-C2—Salina, Oklahoma

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Mark Abney, Sheila Staton-Clifton, Katie Philbrick, Wm. Wehmueller, R. McCright
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, thermic Vertic Paleudolls
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 112
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bucyrus
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, thermic Vertic Paleudolls
  • PSC - 37 to 87 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/11/2007
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess over residuum weathered from cherty limestone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated limestone, cherty at 185cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/11/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    185 - 200

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    redox concentrations

    lithologic discontinuity

    slickensides

    lithic contact

    0—37

    37—185

    94—185

    121—

    163—185

    185—200

    —37—

    —148—

    —91—

    —-

    —22—

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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

    2

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    215

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    0

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    Ap1—0 to 7 centimeters (0.0 to 2.8 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) broken face loam; 26 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 8.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 08N00148; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Ap2—7 to 22 centimeters (2.8 to 8.7 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) broken face loam; 27 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 8.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 08N00149; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    AB—22 to 37 centimeters (8.7 to 14.6 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) broken face clay loam; 30 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 very fine roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 08N00150; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—37 to 63 centimeters (14.6 to 24.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) broken face clay loam; 35 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 10 percent faint brown (7.5YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 08N00151; moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 392298; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 392298
    Bt2—63 to 94 centimeters (24.8 to 37.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) broken face clay loam; 36 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.1 very fine roots throughout; 10 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00152; moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 392299; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 392299
    Bt3—94 to 121 centimeters (37.0 to 47.6 inches); 60 percent reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8) broken face and 40 percent brown (7.5YR 5/4) broken face clay loam; 38 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 15 percent prominent brown (10YR 5/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries throughout and 15 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, manganese masses with clear boundaries on faces of peds; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 5-20-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00153; moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 392300; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 392300
    2Bt4—121 to 163 centimeters (47.6 to 64.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face silty clay; 45 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 50 percent distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine prominent spherical moderately coherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions with sharp boundaries throughout and 4 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, manganese masses with clear boundaries on faces of peds and 7 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-140-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00154; moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 392301; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 392301
    2Btss—163 to 185 centimeters (64.2 to 72.8 inches); 50 percent brown (7.5YR 5/3) broken face and 50 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face silty clay; 50 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 70 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent coarse prominent irregular noncoherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, manganese masses with clear boundaries on faces of peds and 15 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, manganese masses with clear boundaries on faces of peds; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 5-20-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00155; moist when described; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 392302; continuous - phpvsfiid 392302
    2R—185 to 200 centimeters (72.8 to 78.7 inches); bedrock; fragments.