IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Pixlee
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2011OK149017
  • User Pedon ID: S2011OK149017
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2011OK149017
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N0007
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 55385
  • 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: 35.3448906
  • Std. Longitude: -99.2663803
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 10 N
  • Range: 20 W
  • Section: 13
  • PLSS Details: 1,675 feet south and 2,360 feet west of the northeast corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Oklahoma
  • County: OK149—Washita
  • MLRA: 78C—Central Rolling Red Plains, Eastern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OK149—Washita County, Oklahoma
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 35099-C3—Elk City SE, Oklahoma

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Tyson G. Morley
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, thermic, shallow Typic Haplustepts
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Pixlee
  • PSC - 25 to 41 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/23/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Quinlan
  • Classificaton Date - 9/20/2011
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy residuum weathered from sandstone
  • Landscape: dissected plains
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent sandstone, unspecified at 41cm with 10 to <45
  • Geology: Elk City Sandstone formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/20/2011 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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

    CIRSI

    CRTE4

    EUPHO

    GUSA2

    Cirsium

    Croton texensis

    Euphorbia

    Gutierrezia sarothrae

    thistle

    Texas croton

    spurge

    broom snakeweed

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

    bedrock, paralithic

    moderately coherent

    41 -

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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

    0—11

    11—41

    41—

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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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    589

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    160

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    A—0 to 11 centimeters (0.0 to 4.3 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), moist; very fine sandy loam; 68 percent sand; 15 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N00018; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—11 to 25 centimeters (4.3 to 9.8 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6), dark red (2.5YR 3/6), moist; very fine sandy loam; 67 percent sand; 14 percent clay; moderate fine prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1.0 very coarse roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N00019; observed in pit, small
    Bw2—25 to 41 centimeters (9.8 to 16.1 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6), dark red (2.5YR 3/6), moist; very fine sandy loam; 65 percent sand; 13 percent clay; weak medium prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N00020; observed in pit, small
    Cr—41 centimeters (16.1 inches); fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 12N00021; observed in pit, small