IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Waurika
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2009OK071002
  • User Pedon ID: S2013OK071001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2009OK071002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 09N0980
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24556
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 36.6745796
  • Std. Longitude: -97.2109909
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 25N
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: about 2177 feet S and 130 feet W of the corner
  • Map Unit: Wa—Waurika silt loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes, occasionally ponded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Oklahoma
  • County: OK071—Kay
  • 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-F2—Ponca City NW, Oklahoma

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Steve Alspach, Jake Boyett, Jeremy Dennis, Chris Hobbs
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, thermic Vertic Argialbolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Waurika (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/18/2014
  • Classifier - J . Dennis
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Waurika
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, thermic Vertic Argialbolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/1997
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Landscape: alluvial plain
  • Landform: tread of paleoterrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Geology: Terrace Gravel formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/7/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    SOBIB

    TRAE

    Sorghum bicolor ssp. bicolor

    Triticum aestivum

    grain sorghum

    common wheat

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

    mollic epipedon

    abrupt textural change

    argillic horizon

    slickensides

    secondary carbonates

    0—78

    17—18

    18—220

    18—111

    78—143

    —78—

    —1—

    —202—

    —93—

    —65—
    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

    0.2

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    297

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    A/Ep—0 to 11 centimeters (0.0 to 4.3 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) crushed, grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; 10 percent sand; 70 percent silt; 20 percent clay; weak thin platy structure; 0.9 medium roots throughout and 0.9 fine roots throughout; 6.0 fine pores; 2 percent fine prominent reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N03691
    Ep—11 to 18 centimeters (4.3 to 7.1 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), gray (10YR 6/1), dry; silt loam; 9 percent sand; 69 percent silt; 21 percent clay; moderate medium platy structure; 0.6 medium roots throughout and 0.7 fine roots throughout; 0.5 medium and 0.8 fine pores; 1 percent fine iron-manganese masses in matrix and 1 percent medium manganese coatings in matrix and 3 percent medium distinct reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N03692
    Btss1—18 to 53 centimeters (7.1 to 20.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silty clay; 4 percent sand; 44 percent silt; 52 percent clay; strong medium prismatic parts to strong fine angular blocky structure; 0.1 very fine roots throughout and 0.3 fine roots between peds; 0.7 fine pores; 5 percent distinct silt coats on vertical faces of peds and 35 percent distinct slickensides (pedogenic) on all faces of peds and 95 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N03693
    Btss2—53 to 78 centimeters (20.9 to 30.7 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay; 3 percent sand; 47 percent silt; 49 percent clay; strong medium prismatic parts to strong fine angular blocky structure; 0.4 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots in cracks; 15 percent distinct silt coats on vertical faces of peds and 20 percent distinct slickensides (pedogenic) on all faces of peds and 80 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent fine distinct reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N03694
    Btkss—78 to 111 centimeters (30.7 to 43.7 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silty clay; 6 percent sand; 48 percent silt; 46 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; 0.2 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine pores; 1 percent distinct silt coats on vertical faces of peds and 5 percent distinct slickensides (pedogenic) on all faces of peds and 40 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine faint masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 10 percent coarse distinct carbonate masses in matrix and 5 percent medium distinct carbonate nodules in matrix; fragments; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N03695
    Btkssg—111 to 143 centimeters (43.7 to 56.3 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; 15 percent sand; 50 percent silt; 35 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak medium angular blocky structure; 0.5 fine pores; 5 percent slickensides (pedogenic) on all faces of peds and 5 percent distinct organic stains on surfaces along root channels and 20 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent medium distinct iron depletions in matrix and 5 percent fine manganese coatings and 15 percent medium prominent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 4 percent fine distinct carbonate, finely disseminated in matrix; fragments; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N03696
    Btssg—143 to 220 centimeters (56.3 to 86.6 inches); dark gray (7.5YR 4/1) silty clay loam; 18 percent sand; 46 percent silt; 36 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak coarse subangular blocky structure; 0.5 fine pores; 5 percent slickensides (pedogenic) and 10 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds and 10 percent distinct organic stains on surfaces along root channels; 10 percent fine manganese coatings in matrix and 15 percent medium distinct iron depletions in matrix and 20 percent medium prominent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments. Lab sample # 09N03697