IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bigheart
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2008-OK037-05
  • User Pedon ID: S2008-OK037-05
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2008-OK037-05
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0538
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 20086
  • 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: 35.9493866
  • Std. Longitude: -96.0950775
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 17N
  • Range: 11E
  • Section: 13
  • PLSS Details: about 1750 feet N and 1750 feet E of the SW corner
  • Location Description: Creek County, Oklahoma, location verified using Web Soil Survey 2015, pedon is in a BNRD published mapunit.
  • 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-H1—Sapulpa South, Oklahoma

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jeremy Dennis, Jake Boyett
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy, siliceous, active, thermic Lithic Eutrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bigheart
  • PSC - 0 to 40 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/31/2016
  • Classifier - Jerry Weinheimer
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bigheart
  • Classificaton Date - 5/12/2008
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from sandstone
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: very strongly coherent sandstone, unspecified at 40cm
  • Geology: Coffeyville And Checkerboard formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/12/2008 (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

    QUMA3

    QUST

    RUBUS

    SCSC

    Quercus marilandica

    Quercus stellata

    Rubus

    Schizachyrium scoparium

    blackjack oak

    post oak

    blackberry

    little bluestem

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

    bedrock, lithic

    very strongly coherent

    40 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    lithic contact

    0—12

    40—65

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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

    3

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    A—0 to 12 centimeters (0.0 to 4.7 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) fine sandy loam; 77 percent sand; 20 percent silt; 3 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; 3.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots; , 6 percent by weight nonflat rounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-25-76 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by weighed method; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described;
    E1—12 to 27 centimeters (4.7 to 10.6 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) fine sandy loam; 78 percent sand; 19 percent silt; 3 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 1.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; , 14 percent by weight nonflat rounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-25-76 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by weighed method; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; clear irregular boundary.; moist when described;
    E/B—27 to 40 centimeters (10.6 to 15.7 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) gravelly fine sandy loam; 81 percent sand; 16 percent silt; 3 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; loose, loose; 1.0 medium roots and 0.9 fine roots and 1.0 coarse roots; , 19 percent by weight nonflat rounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-25-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by weighed method; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; abrupt irregular boundary.; moist when described;
    R—40 centimeters (15.7 inches); bedrock; fragments.