IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Niotaze
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2008OK03703
  • User Pedon ID: S2008OK03703
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2008-OK037-03
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0535
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 20083
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 35.8719177
  • Std. Longitude: -96.2070847
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 16N
  • Range: 10E
  • Section: 12
  • PLSS Details: about 860 feet E and 230 feet N of the SW corner
  • Map Unit: NBRE—Niotaze-Bigheart-Rock outcrop complex, 3 to 15 percent slopes, very stony
  • 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-G2—Kiefer SW, Oklahoma

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jeremy Dennis, Jake Boyett
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, thermic Albaquic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Niotaze
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/26/2016
  • Classifier - Jerry Weinheimer
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Niotaze
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, thermic Albaquic Hapludalfs
  • Classificaton Date - 1/2/2005
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • 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: clayey residuum weathered from shale
  • Landform: cuesta, hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Bedrock: weakly coherent shale, unspecified at 105cm
  • Geology: Nelly Bly And Hogshooter formation.
  • Surface Fragments: 3.00 percent 250- to 600-millimeter sandstone, unspecified, 8.00 percent 76- to 250-millimeter sandstone, unspecified,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/2/2005 (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

    PLANT

    QUMA3

    QUST

    RHUS

    SCSC

    Andropogon virginicus

    Plantago

    Quercus marilandica

    Quercus stellata

    Rhus

    Schizachyrium scoparium

    broomsedge bluestem

    plantain

    blackjack oak

    post oak

    sumac

    little bluestem

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

    densic material

    moderately coherent

    105 - 130

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

    ochric epipedon

    abrupt textural change

    argillic horizon

    slickensides

    densic contact

    0—7

    25—30

    48—105

    79—105

    105—130

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    —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

    5

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    249

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    A—0 to 7 centimeters (0.0 to 2.8 inches); black (7.5YR 2.5/1) crushed loam; 45 percent sand; 46 percent silt; 9 percent clay; weak fine granular parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 2.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots; , 5 percent by weight nonflat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 2-15-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by weighed method; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary.
    EBt—7 to 25 centimeters (2.8 to 9.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face extremely paragravelly loam; 48 percent sand; 42 percent silt; 10 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots and 1.0 coarse roots; 1 percent fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 1 percent medium distinct masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 1 percent fine distinct very dark gray (7.5YR 3/1), moist, iron-manganese masses in matrix; , 78 percent by weight nonflat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 2-15-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by weighed method; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary.
    2Bt1—25 to 48 centimeters (9.8 to 18.9 inches); 65 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) broken face and 35 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face silty clay; 3 percent sand; 42 percent silt; 55 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic structure; hard, firm; 1.0 very fine roots and 1.0 fine roots; , 1 percent by weight nonflat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 2-15-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by weighed method; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary.
    2Bt2—48 to 79 centimeters (18.9 to 31.1 inches); 75 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) broken face and 25 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) broken face clay; 2 percent sand; 39 percent silt; 60 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 1.0 very fine roots and 1.0 fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary.
    2Btss—79 to 105 centimeters (31.1 to 41.3 inches); olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6) broken face silty clay; 2 percent sand; 42 percent silt; 57 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; 0.1 very fine roots and 0.1 fine roots; 10 percent dark gray (2.5Y 4/1) organic stains; 25 percent medium distinct yellowish red (5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 35 percent coarse distinct gray (2.5Y 6/1) iron depletions in matrix; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary.
    Cd—105 to 130 centimeters (41.3 to 51.2 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) broken face clay; 2 percent sand; 38 percent silt; 60 percent clay; massive; very hard, very firm; 1.0 fine roots in cracks; 2 percent fine yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 5 percent fine dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, iron-manganese masses in matrix; , 3 percent by weight nonflat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 2-15-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by weighed method.