IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bigheart
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2008-OK037-01
  • User Pedon ID: S2008-OK037-01
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2008-OK037-01
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0531
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 20079
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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: 35.6697400
  • Std. Longitude: -96.5425000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 14 N
  • Range: 7E
  • Section: 23
  • PLSS Details: about 1550 feet E and 615feet N of the SW corner
  • Map Unit: BNRD—Bigheart-Niotaze-Rock outcrop complex, 1 to 8 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Oklahoma
  • County: OK037—Creek
  • MLRA: 84A—North Cross Timbers
  • Regional Office: SC—South Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SC-STW—Stillwater, Oklahoma
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 35096-F5—Ritts Junction, Oklahoma

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jeremy Dennis, Jake Boyett
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, siliceous, active, thermic Lithic Eutrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bigheart
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, siliceous, active, thermic Lithic Eutrudepts
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 1/1/2005
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: very strongly coherent slight weathered sandstone, unspecified at 29cm with 10 to <45
  • Geology: Vamoosa Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/1/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, savanna
  • 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

    ANVI2

    COCA5

    PLANT

    QUMA3

    QUST

    SCSC

    SONU2

    SYOR

    Andropogon virginicus

    Conyza canadensis

    Plantago

    Quercus marilandica

    Quercus stellata

    Schizachyrium scoparium

    Sorghastrum nutans

    Symphoricarpos orbiculatus

    broomsedge bluestem

    Canadian horseweed

    plantain

    blackjack oak

    post oak

    little bluestem

    Indiangrass

    coralberry

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    very strongly coherent

    32 - 57

    - 25 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    albic horizon

    lithic contact

    3—12

    12—32

    32—57

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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

    4.5

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    Oe—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; fragments.
    A—3 to 12 centimeters (1.2 to 4.7 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) crushed very fine sandy loam; 61 percent sand; 32 percent silt; 7 percent clay; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable; 2.0 very fine roots and 2.0 fine roots; , 2 percent by weight nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-10-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by weighed method; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary.
    Bw—12 to 32 centimeters (4.7 to 12.6 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face very fine sandy loam; 64 percent sand; 29 percent silt; 7 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable; 1 percent fine faint iron depletions on surfaces along root channels; , 2 percent by weight nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-10-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by weighed method; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary.; wet when described;
    R—32 to 57 centimeters (12.6 to 22.4 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) broken face bedrock; fragments.