IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ochiltree
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • Local Phase: very gravelly
  • User Site ID: S2009OK007002
  • User Pedon ID: S2009OK007002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 09N0916
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24704
  • 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: 36.6503258
  • Std. Longitude: -100.5977478
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2N
  • Range: 23E
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: approximately 558 meters north and 230 meters west of the southeast corner
  • Location Description: Beaver County, Oklahoma; approximately 3.2 kilometers (2 miles) north of Elmwood, Oklahoma on U.S. Highway 270 and 6.4 kilometers (4 miles) west on a county road.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Oklahoma
  • County: OK007—Beaver
  • MLRA: 77E—Southern High Plains, Breaks
  • Regional Office: SC—South Central
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OK007—Beaver County, Oklahoma
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36100-F5—Balko NE, Oklahoma

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Steven L McGowen, Jacob T Bushong, Chris P Hobbs
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, thermic, shallow Petrocalcic Calciustepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ochiltree (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 0 to 21 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/8/2017
  • Classifier - Steven McGowen
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ochiltree
  • Classificaton Date - 4/22/2009
  • Classifier - Steven McGowen
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: calcareous Neogene loamy residuum weathered from arenaceous limestone
  • Landscape: dissected high plains
  • Landform: escarpment on hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Kimball member of the Ogallala formation in the Neogene group.
  • Surface Fragments: 8.00 percent 2- to 5-millimeter petrocalcic fragments, 2.00 percent 20- to 76-millimeter petrocalcic fragments, 5.00 percent 5- to 20-millimeter petrocalcic fragments,
  • 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

    • 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 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 % % % % % % % % % % % % %

    Ak

    Bkkm

    Bk

    BCk

    0

    21

    49

    93

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    49

    93

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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

    Ak

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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 %

    Ak

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

    petrocalcic

    very strongly coherent

    21 - 49

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

    ochric epipedon

    petrocalcic horizon

    calcic horizon

    0—21

    21—49

    49—180

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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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    Ak—0 to 21 centimeters (0.0 to 8.3 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) rubbed, moist; very gravelly fine sandy loam; moderate medium granular structure; soft, friable, extremely weakly coherent; moderate excavation difficulty; 0.5 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; fragments; 16 percent by weight of rock fragments 76 to 250mm; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9; diffuse wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bkkm—21 to 49 centimeters (8.3 to 19.3 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4) broken face, brown (7.5YR 5/3) broken face, moist; cemented material; moderate very coarse prismatic structure; rigid, rigid, very strongly coherent by carbonates; extremely high excavation difficulty; 0.1 fine roots in cracks; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.3; diffuse wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bk—49 to 93 centimeters (19.3 to 36.6 inches); pink (7.5YR 7/3) broken face, light brown (7.5YR 6/3) broken face, moist; extremely cobbly fine sandy loam; moderate very coarse prismatic structure; extremely hard, slightly rigid, strongly coherent; very high excavation difficulty; fragments; 46 percent by weight of rock fragments 76 to 250mm; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; diffuse wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    BCk—93 to 180 centimeters (36.6 to 70.9 inches); pink (7.5YR 8/3) broken face, light brown (7.5YR 6/4) broken face, moist; extremely cobbly fine sandy loam; moderate very coarse prismatic structure; very hard, extremely firm, moderately coherent; high excavation difficulty; 15 percent fine threadlike noncoherent cemented carbonate masses throughout and 10 percent medium threadlike noncoherent cemented carbonate masses throughout; fragments; 39 percent by weight of rock fragments 76 to 250mm; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2.; observed in pit, small