IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bigheart
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2008OK037004
  • User Pedon ID: BSPSA-2008-OK037-04
  • Vegetation Plot ID: BSPSA-2008-OK037-04
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0537
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 20085
  • Print Date: 6/1/2024
  • 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: 35.6698761
  • Std. Longitude: -96.5426559
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 14N
  • Range: 7E
  • Section: 23
  • Map Unit: NBRE—Niotaze-Bigheart-Rock outcrop complex, 3 to 15 percent slopes, very stony
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Oklahoma
  • County: OK037—Creek
  • MLRA: 84A—North Cross Timbers
  • Regional Office: SC—South Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SC-STW—Stillwater, Oklahoma
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 35096-F5—Ritts Junction, Oklahoma
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jake Boyett
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, siliceous, active, thermic Lithic Eutrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bigheart
  • PSC - 0 to 40 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/31/2016
  • Classifier - Jerry Weinheimer
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bigheart
  • Classificaton Date - 2/19/2008
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from sandstone
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: low hillslope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent sandstone, unspecified at 40cm
  • Geology: Vamoosa Group Or Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/19/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, savanna
  • 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

    QUMA3

    QUST

    Quercus marilandica

    Quercus stellata

    blackjack oak

    post oak

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

    bedrock, lithic

    strongly coherent

    40 - 70

    - 30 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—10

    10—40

    40—70

    —-

    —10—

    —30—

    —30—

    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

    3

    261

    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) very fine sandy loam; 60 percent sand; 35 percent silt; 5 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary.; wet, non-satiated when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw—10 to 40 centimeters (3.9 to 15.7 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4) very fine sandy loam; 72 percent sand; 23 percent silt; 5 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt wavy boundary.; wet, satiated when described; observed in pit, small. In the Stillwater Soil Survey lab, using the Hach Soil and water Analysis kit. BS%=49
    R—40 to 70 centimeters (15.7 to 27.6 inches); bedrock; fragments.