IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Parsons
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2012OK105002
  • User Pedon ID: S2012OK105002
  • User Site Association ID: MLRA 112 - Natric ProjectMLRA 116 A & B - Natric Project
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Print Date: 4/24/2025

    • 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: 36.6752833
  • Std. Longitude: -95.6285778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: S 5, T 25N, R 16E
  • Map Unit: PaB—Parsons silt loam, 1 to 3 percent slopes
  • State: Oklahoma
  • County: OK105—Nowata
  • MLRA: 112—Cherokee Prairies
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OK105—Nowata County, Oklahoma
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36095-F6—Nowata West, Oklahoma

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Gene Campbell, JR Perkins
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active, thermic Mollic Albaqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, brief description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Parsons
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, active, thermic Mollic Albaqualfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 50 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/20/2012
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess over residuum weathered from shale
  • Landscape: plains
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Geology: Marmaton Group formation of the Pennsylvanian group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/10/2012 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Gene Campbell, JR Perkins
  • 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    redox concentrations

    slickensides

    reduced matrix

    0—31

    50—194

    50—237

    50—194

    70—237

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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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    212.1

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    220

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    Ap1—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; fragments.
    Ap2—15 to 31 centimeters (5.9 to 12.2 inches); silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; fragments.
    BE—31 to 50 centimeters (12.2 to 19.7 inches); silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; 5 percent silt coats on all faces of peds; fragments.
    Btg1—50 to 70 centimeters (19.7 to 27.6 inches); clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; 5 percent slickensides (pedogenic) and 10 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1) clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine very dark gray (7.5YR 3/1) iron-manganese masses and 7 percent fine strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments.
    Btg2—70 to 90 centimeters (27.6 to 35.4 inches); clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; 5 percent slickensides (pedogenic) and 10 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1) clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine very dark gray (7.5YR 3/1) iron-manganese masses and 1 percent fine iron-manganese concretions and 5 percent fine strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments.
    Btg3—90 to 137 centimeters (35.4 to 53.9 inches); clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; 5 percent slickensides (pedogenic) and 10 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1) clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine gray (2.5Y 6/1) masses of reduced iron and 2 percent fine very dark gray (7.5YR 3/1) iron-manganese masses and 10 percent fine yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments.
    Btg4—137 to 194 centimeters (53.9 to 76.4 inches); clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; 5 percent slickensides (pedogenic) and 10 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1) clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine iron-manganese concretions and 2 percent fine very dark gray (7.5YR 3/1) iron-manganese masses and 15 percent fine yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) and masses of oxidized iron; fragments.
    2BC—194 to 237 centimeters (76.4 to 93.3 inches); clay; massive; 5 percent gray (2.5Y 5/1) clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent fine yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 5 percent fine very dark gray (7.5YR 3/1) iron-manganese masses; fragments.