IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Alowood
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2008OK007002
  • User Pedon ID: S2008OK007002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 09N0016
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24541
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 36.7793732
  • Std. Longitude: -100.5583344
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 4N
  • Range: 23E
  • Section: 26
  • PLSS Details: 385 meters north and 118 meters east of the southwest corner
  • Location Description: Beaver County, Oklahoma; approximately 3.2 kilometers west and 3.2 kilometers south of Beaver, Oklahoma
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Oklahoma
  • County: OK007—Beaver
  • MLRA: 77E—Southern High Plains, Breaks
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OK007—Beaver County, Oklahoma
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36100-G5—Beaver, Oklahoma

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Steven L McGowen, Jacob T Bushong, Chris P Hobbs, Troy L Collier, Tyson G Morley
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, thermic Aridic Calciustepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Alowood (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 25 to 94 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/13/2016
  • Classifier - Steven McGowen
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Alowood
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, thermic Aridic Calciustepts
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 24 to 69 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/30/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Tertiary loamy alluvium over Permian clayey residuum weathered from mudstone
  • Landscape: alluvial plain remnant
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent moderate weathered mudstone at 94cm with 10 to <45
  • Geology: Cloud Cheif formation of the Permian group.
  • Surface Fragments: 1.00 percent 2- to 5-millimeter quartz, 1.00 percent 20- to 76-millimeter quartz, 1.00 percent 5- to 20-millimeter quartz, 0.50 percent 76- to 250-millimeter quartz,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/30/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 1
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID Data Collector Total Clay CaCO3 Clay Total Silt Fine Silt Co. Silt Total Sand Total Sand Method VC Sand Co. Sand Med. Sand Fine Sand VF Sand VF Sand Method Texture Class - Field Lab Rubbed Fiber Unrubbed Fiber pH H2O
    cm cm % % % % % % % % % % % % %

    Ap

    Bk1

    Bk2

    Bk3

    2BCk

    2Cdk

    0

    17

    28

    49

    69

    69

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    49

    69

    115

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 2
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID pH CaCl2 pH NaF pH Ox Delta pH LL PL PI Atter. Samp. Cond. COLE Pot. Acidity Ca + Mg - Meh 2 K Ca + Mg - Sat. Paste KCl Extract. Acidity Base Sat. - Meh 2 CEC-7 CEC-8.2
    cm cm % % % cm/cm meq/100g cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg mmol(+)/l cmol(+)/kg % cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg

    Ap

    Bk1

    Bk2

    Bk3

    2BCk

    2Cdk

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    28

    49

    69

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 3
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID ECEC Phosphate P NO3-N EC EC Method EC 1:5 by volume CaCO3 Equiv. Equiv. Gypsum Na SAR Gypsum Req. Humic Color Fulvic Color Humic + Fulvic Color Al PI Pyro. Hue PyrO. Value Pyro. Chroma
    cm cm cmol(+)/kg mg/kg mg/kg dS/m dS/m % % mmol(+)/l % L-pcu/g L-pcu/g L-pcu/g %

    Ap

    Bk1

    Bk2

    Bk3

    2BCk

    2Cdk

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    28

    49

    69

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    115

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

    bedrock, paralithic

    moderately coherent

    94 - 115

    - 21 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    calcic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    paralithic contact

    0—17

    28—94

    69—115

    94—115

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    —46—

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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

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    Ap—0 to 17 centimeters (0.0 to 6.7 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face, brown (7.5YR 4/3) broken face, moist; clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; moderately hard, friable; 7.0 medium roots and 7.0 fine roots; 1 percent by volume nonflat well rounded indurated 2-?-5 millimeter quartzite fragments and 2 percent by volume nonflat well rounded indurated 5-?-20 millimeter quartzite fragments and 2 percent by volume nonflat well rounded indurated 20-?-75 millimeter quartzite fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary.; observed in trench
    Bk1—17 to 28 centimeters (6.7 to 11.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) broken face, brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face, moist; clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable; 3.0 medium roots and 7.0 fine roots; 1 percent fine faint threadlike noncoherent cemented carbonate masses throughout and 1 percent medium distinct spherical noncoherent cemented carbonate masses throughout; 1 percent by volume nonflat well rounded indurated 2-?-5 millimeter quartzite fragments and 1 percent by volume nonflat well rounded indurated 5-?-20 millimeter quartzite fragments and 1 percent by volume nonflat well rounded indurated 20-?-75 millimeter quartzite fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary.; observed in trench
    Bk2—28 to 49 centimeters (11.0 to 19.3 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 7/6) broken face, reddish yellow (7.5YR 7/6) broken face, moist; clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable; 0.5 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; carbonate, finely disseminated throughout and 1 percent fine spherical noncoherent cemented carbonate masses throughout; 1 percent by volume nonflat well rounded indurated 2-?-5 millimeter quartzite fragments and 1 percent by volume nonflat well rounded indurated 5-?-20 millimeter quartzite fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary.; observed in trench
    Bk3—49 to 69 centimeters (19.3 to 27.2 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) broken face, strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) broken face, moist; clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable; 0.5 fine roots; 1 percent fine noncoherent cemented carbonate masses on surfaces along root channels; 1 percent by volume nonflat well rounded indurated 2-?-5 millimeter quartz fragments and 1 percent by volume nonflat angular moderately coherent cemented 2-?-5 millimeter shale, calcareous fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt wavy boundary.; observed in trench
    2BCk—69 to 94 centimeters (27.2 to 37.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) broken face, dark red (2.5YR 3/6) broken face, moist; clay; strong medium prismatic parts to strong medium angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; 0.5 fine roots between peds; 15 percent prominent reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds and 45 percent prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, carbonate coats on vertical faces of peds; 10 percent distinct irregular iron-manganese masses in matrix; 10 percent irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses on horizontal faces of peds; 1 percent by volume nonflat angular moderately coherent cemented 2-?-5 millimeter shale, calcareous fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; observed in trench. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 427602; continuous - phpvsfiid 427601; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 427602; continuous - phpvsfiid 427601
    2Cdk—94 to 115 centimeters (37.0 to 45.3 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) interior, dark red (2.5YR 3/6) interior, moist; bedrock; structureless massive; very hard, extremely firm; few fine roots between peds; 5 irreversible trans-horizon cracks per meter at a depth of 21 cm with a width of 0.5 cm; 5 percent prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, carbonate coats on rock fragments; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n.; observed in trench. continuous - phpvsfiid 1393666; continuous - phpvsfiid 1393666