IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Parsons
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2012OK115001
  • User Pedon ID: S2012OK115001
  • User Site Association ID: MLRA 112 - Natric Project
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 13N0445
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 72586
  • 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: 36.7890222
  • Std. Longitude: -94.8940917
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: S 25, T 27N, R 22E
  • Map Unit: PaA—Parsons silt loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes
  • State: Oklahoma
  • County: OK115—Ottawa
  • MLRA: 112—Cherokee Prairies
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OK115—Ottawa County, Oklahoma
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36094-G8—Miami SW, Oklahoma

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: G. Campbell, S. Paine, JR Perkins
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active, thermic Mollic Albaqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Parsons
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, active, thermic Mollic Albaqualfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 43 to 93 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/30/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess over residuum weathered from shale
  • Landscape: plains
  • Landform: paleoterrace
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Geology: Mississippian group .
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/2/2012 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: G. Campbell, S. Paine, 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

    albic horizon

    argillic horizon

    redox concentrations

    reduced matrix

    gypsum accumulations

    0—74

    20—43

    43—203

    43—203

    74—178

    124—178

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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

    0.5

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    244.8

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N01867
    E—20 to 43 centimeters (7.9 to 16.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N01868
    Bt1—43 to 74 centimeters (16.9 to 29.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silty clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 30 percent distinct clay films; 10 percent fine prominent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent medium prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N01869
    Btg2—74 to 124 centimeters (29.1 to 48.8 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) silty clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 30 percent distinct clay films; 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese concretions and 10 percent fine prominent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron and 25 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear smooth boundary.
    Btg3—124 to 178 centimeters (48.8 to 70.1 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) silty clay; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 30 percent distinct clay films; 25 percent coarse prominent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) masses of oxidized iron; 5 percent fine light gray (10YR 7/1) gypsum masses throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary.
    Bt4—178 to 203 centimeters (70.1 to 79.9 inches); silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 15 percent faint clay films; 10 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese masses and 15 percent medium prominent gray (10YR 6/1) masses of reduced iron; fragments. Lab sample # 13N01872