IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bigheart
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2002OK113004
  • User Pedon ID: S2002OK113004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: OK-02-113-4
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 03N0234
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 14990
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 36.8041667
  • Std. Longitude: -96.2027780
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 27N
  • Range: 10E
  • Section: 23
  • PLSS Details: 1100 feet east and 2,350 feet south of the NW corner
  • Location Description: Bigheart soil series OSD pedon location
  • Map Unit: BBgC—Bartlesville-Bigheart complex, 1 to 5 percent slopes, very rocky
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Oklahoma
  • County: OK113—Osage
  • MLRA: 84A—North Cross Timbers
  • Regional Office: SC—South Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SC-STW—Stillwater, Oklahoma
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36096-G2—Herd, Oklahoma

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: G Scott, J Dennis
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, siliceous, active, thermic Lithic Eutrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bigheart (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 0 to 38 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/10/2016
  • Classifier - Jerry Weinheimer
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Darnell
  • Taxonomic Class - Thermic Lithic Quartzipsamments
  • PSC - 0 to 38 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/14/2002
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • 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: residuum weathered from sandstone
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent moderate weathered sandstone, unspecified at 38cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/14/2002 (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
  • Current Weather - partly cloudy
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ANGE

    PAVI2

    QUMA3

    QUST

    SCSC

    SONU2

    TRFL2

    Andropogon gerardii

    Panicum virgatum

    Quercus marilandica

    Quercus stellata

    Schizachyrium scoparium

    Sorghastrum nutans

    Tridens flavus

    big bluestem

    switchgrass

    blackjack oak

    post oak

    little bluestem

    Indiangrass

    purpletop tridens

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

    bedrock, lithic

    strongly coherent

    38 - 63

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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—13

    13—38

    38—63

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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

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    300

    940

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    15.2

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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) crushed, dry; fine sandy loam; 73 percent sand; 22 percent silt; 6 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 6.0 fine roots throughout and 3.0 coarse roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and 5.0 fine pores; 5 percent worm casts throughout; , 4 percent by weight nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-5-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by weighed method; moderately acid, pH 5.7, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N01200; observed in trench
    Bw1—13 to 28 centimeters (5.1 to 11.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) crushed, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) crushed, dry; fine sandy loam; 75 percent sand; 20 percent silt; 5 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 6.0 fine roots throughout and 3.0 coarse roots throughout; 3.0 very fine pores; 5 percent worm casts throughout; , 3 percent by weight nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-5-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by weighed method; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N01201; observed in trench
    Bw2—28 to 38 centimeters (11.0 to 15.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) crushed, reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) crushed, dry; fine sandy loam; 76 percent sand; 17 percent silt; 7 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 4.0 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 5.0 very fine and 3.0 fine pores; 5 percent worm casts throughout; , 4 percent by weight nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-5-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by weighed method; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 03N01202; observed in trench
    R—38 to 63 centimeters (15.0 to 24.8 inches); bedrock; extremely hard, very rigid; 0.5 coarse roots around fragments; fragments.; observed in trench