IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cordell
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2016OK149016
  • User Pedon ID: S2016OK149016
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 16N0515
  • User Project ID: OAES_011_NEON
  • Project Name: Klemme Range Research Station
  • Print Date: 12/10/2025

    • 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: 35.4107111
  • Std. Longitude: -99.0692889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 15.6;230; 40X40 center marker
  • State: Oklahoma
  • County: OK149—Washita
  • MLRA: 78C—Central Rolling Red Plains, Eastern Part

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Tyson Morley
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, active, thermic Lithic Haplustepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cordell
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, active, thermic Lithic Haplustepts
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 0 to 28 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/16/2016
  • Classifier - ALTUS SSO STAFF
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 3
  • QA Status: level 3


    • SITE

  • Geology: Doxey formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • Plot #: 16
  • RaCA Information:
  • RaCA Site ID - OAES_016
  • DSP Plot ID - SW
  • Plot Baseline Azimuth - 230
  • Plot Baseline Length - 15
  • Plot Width - 40
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Center marker
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Tyson Morley

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/9/2016 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Tyson Morley
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    strongly coherent

    28 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—8

    8—28

    28—

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    —20—

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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
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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), moist; silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable; many very fine roots throughout and many fine roots throughout; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 2-15-25 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 16N02147; observed in pit, small
    Bw—8 to 28 centimeters (3.1 to 11.0 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable; many very fine roots throughout and common fine roots throughout; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 2-15-25 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 16N02148; observed in pit, small
    R—28 to 200 centimeters (11.0 to 78.7 inches); red (2.5YR 5/6), red (2.5YR 4/6), moist; bedrock; few fine roots top of horizon; fragments; very slight effervescence.; observed in pit, small