IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Shalowood
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • Local Phase: loam
  • User Site ID: S2009OK007001
  • User Pedon ID: S2009OK007001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 09N0915
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24703
  • 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: 36.7837917
  • Std. Longitude: -100.5596111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 4N
  • Range: 23E
  • Section: 26
  • PLSS Details: approximately 721 meters south and 2 meters east of the northwest corner
  • Location Description: Beaver County, Oklahoma; 1 mile (1.6 kilometers) south of the town of Beaver, Oklahoma on U.S. Highway 270 and 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) west on a county road and 0.4 mile (0.6 kilometers) south on lease road; profile described in cut on east side of road.
  • 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
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic, shallow Aridic Calciustepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Shalowood (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 0 to 34 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/28/2020
  • Classifier - Steven McGowen
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Shalowood
  • Classificaton Date - 4/22/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: calcareous Neogene loamy alluvium and/or calcareous Neogene loamy colluvium over Permian sandy residuum
  • Landscape: dissected high plains
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent moderate weathered sandstone, calcareous at 34cm
  • Geology: Whitehorse formation of the Permian group.
  • Surface Fragments: 2.00 percent 2- to 5-millimeter quartzite, 1.00 percent 5- to 76-millimeter quartzite,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    R077EY068TX Very Shallow 16-24" PZ Sep 19 2022 Steven McGowen

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/22/2009 (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 Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    moderately coherent

    34 - 240

    - 206 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    calcic horizon

    secondary carbonates

    lithologic discontinuity

    paralithic contact

    paralithic materials

    0—18

    18—34

    18—240

    34—

    34—

    34—240

    —18—

    —16—

    —222—

    —-

    —-

    —206—
    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

    —

    —

    763.6

    —

    0

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    A—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) crushed, brown (7.5YR 4/4) rubbed, moist; loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; soft, friable, noncoherent; low excavation difficulty; 3.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 10 percent worm casts; 2 percent by volume 2-?-5 millimeter quartzite fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary.; observed in cut
    Bk—18 to 34 centimeters (7.1 to 13.4 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4) broken face, reddish brown (5YR 4/4) broken face, moist; loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, noncoherent; low excavation difficulty; 0.5 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 1 percent worm casts and 1 percent fine noncoherent cemented carbonate masses throughout and 1 percent medium weakly coherent cemented carbonate nodules throughout; 1 percent by volume 5-?-76 millimeter quartzite fragments and 2 percent by volume 2-?-5 millimeter sandstone, calcareous fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-?-5 millimeter quartzite fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in cut
    2CBrk—34 to 68 centimeters (13.4 to 26.8 inches); red (2.5YR 5/8) broken face, red (2.5YR 4/8) broken face, moist; very fine sandy loam; moderate medium platy parts to structureless massive; moderately hard, friable, extremely weakly coherent; moderate excavation difficulty; 0.1 very fine roots in cracks; 5 percent threadlike carbonate masses on horizontal faces of peds; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary.; observed in cut
    2Crk—68 to 240 centimeters (26.8 to 94.5 inches); red (2.5YR 5/8) broken face, red (2.5YR 4/8) broken face, moist; bedrock; structureless massive; moderately hard, firm, very weakly coherent; high excavation difficulty; 0.1 very fine roots in cracks; 5 percent threadlike carbonate masses along lamina or strata surfaces; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n.; observed in cut