IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kirkland
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2011OK053026
  • User Pedon ID: S2011OK053026
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 6
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N7740
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 70831
  • User Project ID: 2021-DSP-001
  • Project Name: MLRA 80A - Compaction and soil aggregate stability of Kirkland series
  • 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: 36.9131203
  • Std. Longitude: -97.7802277
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 28N
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 7
  • PLSS Details: 4010 feet north and 1435 feet east of the southwest corner
  • Location Description: Kirkland soil series Dynamic Soil Properties project pedon Grant County, Oklahoma
  • Map Unit: 29—Kirkland silt loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes, cool
  • 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-G6—Medford, 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 - 26 to 76 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 - 12/5/2011
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Agronomic Feature - close grown annual crop, or crop-fallow
  • Current Crop - wheat, winter-fallow
  • Residue Description - wheat stubble
  • RaCA Information:
  • Soil Replicate # - 1
  • Rectangular Plot Line # - 1
  • Distance From Baseline - 1
  • 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: linear
  • 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 - 1
  • DSP Plot ID - CT5
  • Plot Baseline Length - 20
  • Plot Width - 20
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Dennis, Alspach
  • Rectangular Plot Line # - 1
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Dennis, Alspach, Hughes
  • 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: 12/1/2011 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - close-grown crop
  • 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

    TRAE

    Triticum aestivum

    common wheat

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

    mollic epipedon

    abrupt textural change

    argillic horizon

    secondary carbonates

    redox concentrations

    0—77

    25—27

    26—200

    77—163

    83—200

    —77—

    —2—

    —174—

    —86—

    —117—

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

    0

    2

    class 6

    class 5

    class 5

    class 4

    class 6

    class 5

    class 6

    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

    Bt1

    0

    2

    26

    2

    26

    77

    core, variable volume

    scoop

    scoop

    Jeremy Dennis, Steve Alspach

    Jeremy Dennis, Steve Alspach

    Jeremy Dennis, Steve Alspach

    1.23

    1.26

    1.27

    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

    0.8

    A1—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches);, dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist; silt loam; 9 percent sand; 65 percent silt; 26 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; hard, firm; fragments; 1 percent of Organic Carbon Lab estimate; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 12N01618
    A2—2 to 26 centimeters (0.8 to 10.2 inches);, dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist; silty clay loam; 7 percent sand; 58 percent silt; 35 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; hard, firm; fragments; 0.8 percent of Organic Carbon Lab estimate; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N01619
    Bt1—26 to 77 centimeters (10.2 to 30.3 inches);, dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; silty clay; 5 percent sand; 49 percent silt; 46 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; 0.6 percent of Organic Carbon Lab estimate; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N01620. continuous - phpvsfiid 800975; continuous - phpvsfiid 800975
    Btk1—77 to 83 centimeters (30.3 to 32.7 inches);, brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; silty clay; 8 percent sand; 44 percent silt; 48 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; 75 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine carbonate concretions and 3 percent medium carbonate masses; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. continuous - phpvsfiid 800976; continuous - phpvsfiid 800976
    Btk2—83 to 107 centimeters (32.7 to 42.1 inches);, reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; silty clay; 6 percent sand; 42 percent silt; 52 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; 10 percent distinct pressure faces on all faces of peds and 55 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent fine distinct reddish gray (5YR 5/2) iron depletions in matrix; 8 percent fine prominent carbonate masses in matrix and 5 percent medium carbonate concretions in matrix; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 800977; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 800977
    Btk3—107 to 163 centimeters (42.1 to 64.2 inches);, red (2.5YR 4/6), moist; silty clay; 8 percent sand; 42 percent silt; 50 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 6 percent medium weak red (2.5YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix; 6 percent medium carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary.
    Bt2—163 to 200 centimeters (64.2 to 78.7 inches);, red (2.5YR 4/6), moist; silty clay; 9 percent sand; 38 percent silt; 53 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 2 percent fine distinct weak red (2.5YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions on surfaces along root channels; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog.