IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kirkland
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • Local Phase: eroded
  • User Site ID: S2011OK103011
  • User Pedon ID: S2011OK103014
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 4
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N7758
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 70724
  • User Project ID: 2021-DSP-001
  • Project Name: MLRA 80A - Compaction and soil aggregate stability of Kirkland series
  • Print Date: 4/27/2025

    • 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: 36.3773100
  • Std. Longitude: -97.2799200
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 22N
  • Range: 1W
  • Section: 14
  • PLSS Details: 300 feet E and 209 feet N of the SW corner
  • Location Description: Kirkland soil series Dynamic Soil Properties project pedon Noble County, Oklahoma
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Oklahoma
  • County: OK103—Noble
  • 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-D3—Ceres, 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 - 10 to 60 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 - 10/28/2011
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Residue Description - Crop residue
  • RaCA Information:
  • Soil Replicate # - 4
  • Rectangular Plot Line # - 10
  • 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: low
  • 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 - CT3
  • 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)
    R080AY065OK Clay Prairie PE 44-64

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/28/2011 (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

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    abrupt textural change

    0—69

    10—200

    25—27

    —69—

    —190—

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    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 2

    class 3

    class 2

    class 3

    class 3

    class 3

    class 2

    class 3
    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

    Ap1

    Ap2

    Bt

    Btk

    0

    2

    10

    26

    2

    10

    26

    69

    hydraulic probe

    hydraulic probe

    hydraulic probe

    hydraulic probe

    Jeremy Dennis, Steve Alspach

    Jeremy Dennis, Steve Alspach

    Jeremy Dennis, Steve Alspach

    Jeremy Dennis, Steve Alspach

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    1.01

    0.86

    1.65

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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

    0.6

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    Ap1—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches);, dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist; silty clay loam; 17 percent sand; 55 percent silt; 28 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; loose, loose; 1 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-5-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by weighed method; 1.4 percent of Organic Carbon Lab estimate; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 12N01672
    Ap2—2 to 10 centimeters (0.8 to 3.9 inches);, dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist; silty clay loam; 16 percent sand; 55 percent silt; 29 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; loose, loose; 35 percent clay films on all faces of peds; , 2 percent by weight nonflat rounded indurated 2-5-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by weighed method; 1.3 percent of Organic Carbon Lab estimate; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N01673
    Bt—10 to 26 centimeters (3.9 to 10.2 inches);, dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; 15 percent sand; 55 percent silt; 30 percent clay; moderate very thick platy parts to weak coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 55 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 4 percent carbonate masses in matrix; 1 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-5-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by weighed method; 1.1 percent of Organic Carbon Lab estimate; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N01674
    Btk—26 to 69 centimeters (10.2 to 27.2 inches);, dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; silty clay; 8 percent sand; 46 percent silt; 46 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse prismatic structure; very hard, very firm; fragments; 0.4 percent of Organic Carbon Lab estimate; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N01675