IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cordell
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2011OK009022
  • User Pedon ID: S2011OK009022
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2011OK009022
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N0004
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 55382
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 35.3682709
  • Std. Longitude: -99.6168823
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 10 N
  • Range: 23 W
  • Section: 3
  • PLSS Details: 1,675 feet north and 1,600 feet west of the southeast corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Oklahoma
  • County: OK009—Beckham
  • MLRA: 78C—Central Rolling Red Plains, Eastern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OK009—Beckham County, Oklahoma
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 35099-C5—Doxey, Oklahoma

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Tyson G. Morley
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, thermic Lithic Haplustepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Cordell
  • PSC - 0 to 27 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/23/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cordell
  • Classificaton Date - 9/21/2011
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy residuum weathered from calcareous siltstone
  • Landscape: dissected plains
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: very strongly coherent siltstone, calcareous at 45cm with 10 to <45
  • Geology: Doxey Shale formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/21/2011 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • 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

    ARIST

    BOGR2

    OPUNT

    SPVA

    Aristida

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Opuntia

    Sporobolus vaginiflorus

    threeawn

    blue grama

    pricklypear

    poverty dropseed

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

    bedrock, paralithic

    bedrock, lithic

    weakly coherent

    very strongly coherent

    27 - 45

    45 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    paralithic contact

    lithic contact

    0—10

    10—27

    27—45

    45—

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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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    619.5

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    260

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), moist; silt loam; 12 percent sand; 62 percent silt; 26 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N00008; observed in pit, small
    Bw—10 to 27 centimeters (3.9 to 10.6 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), moist; silty clay loam; 11 percent sand; 60 percent silt; 29 percent clay; weak medium prismatic structure; moderately hard, firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 2-?-15 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N00009; observed in pit, small
    Cr—27 to 45 centimeters (10.6 to 17.7 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), moist; silt loam; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N00010; observed in pit, small
    R—45 centimeters (17.7 inches); fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 12N00011; observed in pit, small