IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kirkland
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2011OK053021
  • User Pedon ID: S2011OK053024
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S11OK053021-1
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N7738
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 69295
  • 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: 36.8964844
  • Std. Longitude: -97.5093307
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 28N
  • Range: 3W
  • Section: 22
  • PLSS Details: 525 feet and 2130 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Location Description: Kirkland soil series Dynamic Soil Properties project pedon Grant County, Oklahoma
  • Map Unit: KrdB—Kirkland silt loam, 1 to 3 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Oklahoma
  • County: OK053—Grant
  • MLRA: 80A—Central Rolling Red Prairies
  • Regional Office: SC—South Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SC-STW—Stillwater, Oklahoma
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36097-H5—Medford NE, Oklahoma

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jeremy Dennis, Steve Alspach
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, superactive, thermic Udertic Paleustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Kirkland
  • PSC - 30 to 80 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/21/2016
  • Classifier - Jerry Weinheimer
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kirkland
  • Classificaton Date - 9/29/2011
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Litter Cover % - 100
  • RaCA Information:
  • Soil Replicate # - 4
  • Rectangular Plot Line # - 10
  • Distance From Baseline - 19
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from shale
  • Landscape: alluvial plain
  • Landform: paleoterrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Ksat Class Upper: low
  • Ksat Class Lower: very low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • RaCA Soil Group ID - 4
  • DSP Plot ID - R5
  • Plot Baseline Length - 20
  • Plot Width - 20
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Dennis, Alspach
  • Rectangular Plot Line # - 10
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Dennis, Alspach

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    R080AY010OK Claypan Upland (North)

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/29/2011 (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

    AMPS

    BOLAT

    BUDA

    CYDA

    SOEL

    Ambrosia psilostachya

    Bothriochloa laguroides ssp. torreyana

    Buchloe dactyloides

    Cynodon dactylon

    Solanum elaeagnifolium

    Cuman ragweed

    silver beardgrass

    buffalograss

    Bermudagrass

    silverleaf nightshade

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

    mollic epipedon

    abrupt textural change

    argillic horizon

    0—69

    29—31

    30—200

    —69—

    —2—

    —170—
    Pedon Soil Stability
    Depth Sample Collector Data Collector Test Date First Rep Second Rep Third Rep Predominant Class
    cm

    0

    2

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    class 5

    class 6

    class 4

    class 5

    class 5

    class 5

    class 5

    class 5
    Pedon Horizon Bulk Density
    Horizon Depth to Top Depth to Bottom Method Data Collector Field Moist Volume Field Moist Sample Wt. Air Dry Sample Wt. Field Moist Co. Fragment Wt. Air Dry Fragment Wt. Fragment Density Coarse Fragment Volume Air Dry Subsample Wt. Oven Dry Subsample Wt. Grav Soil Moist % Whole Soil Grav Soil Moist % Fine Earth Bulk Density FM Fine Soil Bulk Density FM Whole Soill Bulk Density OD fINE Earth Bulk Density OD Fine Earth Bulk Density Satiated
    cm cm3 g g/cm3 cm3 g % g/cm3

    A1

    A2

    Bt

    0

    2

    30

    2

    30

    69

    hydraulic probe

    hydraulic probe

    hydraulic probe

    Jeremy Dennis, Steve Alspach

    Jeremy Dennis, Steve Alspach

    Jeremy Dennis, Steve Alspach

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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

    2

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    A1—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches);, very dark gray (7.5YR 3/1), moist; silt loam; 16 percent sand; 65 percent silt; 19 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; hard, firm; fragments; 3.6 percent of Organic Carbon Lab estimate; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 12N01612
    A2—2 to 30 centimeters (0.8 to 11.8 inches);, very dark gray (7.5YR 3/1), moist; silt loam; 19 percent sand; 60 percent silt; 21 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; hard, firm; fragments; 1.5 percent of Organic Carbon Lab estimate; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N01613
    Bt—30 to 69 centimeters (11.8 to 27.2 inches);, dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; silty clay; 16 percent sand; 43 percent silt; 41 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; 70 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; 0.8 percent of Organic Carbon Lab estimate; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N01614. continuous - phpvsfiid 800935; continuous - phpvsfiid 800935