IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cordell
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2011OK149018
  • User Pedon ID: S2011OK149018
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2011OK149018
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N0008
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 55386
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024
  • 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: 35.3116684
  • Std. Longitude: -99.3572540
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 10 N
  • Range: 20 W
  • Section: 30
  • PLSS Details: 2,130 feet north and 2,130 feet east of the southeast 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 Lithic Haplustepts
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Cordell
  • PSC - 25 to 40 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/23/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cordell
  • Classificaton Date - 9/20/2011
  • 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: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • 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 40cm with 10 to <45
  • Geology: Doxey Shale 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 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    ACGR

    ARIST

    BOGR2

    OPUNT

    SPVA

    Acacia greggii

    Aristida

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Opuntia

    Sporobolus vaginiflorus

    catclaw acacia

    threeawn

    blue grama

    pricklypear

    poverty dropseed

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

    bedrock, lithic

    very strongly coherent

    40 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—11

    11—40

    40—

    —-

    —-

    —-

    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

    568.5

    135

    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; silt loam; 10 percent sand; 64 percent silt; 26 percent clay; moderate 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 # 12N00022; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—11 to 28 centimeters (4.3 to 11.0 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), moist; silt loam; 11 percent sand; 62 percent silt; 27 percent clay; weak medium prismatic structure; moderately hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-?-15 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N00023; observed in pit, small
    Bw2—28 to 40 centimeters (11.0 to 15.7 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), moist; silt loam; 10 percent sand; 63 percent silt; 27 percent clay; weak fine prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-?-15 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N00024; observed in pit, small
    R—40 centimeters (15.7 inches); fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 12N00025; observed in pit, small