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D11 OAES Megapit Soils Description

PEDON DESCRIPTION

Print Date: Jul 22 2015	Country: United States
Description Date: Feb 19 2013	State: Oklahoma
Describer: Tyson G. Morley	County: Washita
Site ID: S2013OK149001	MLRA: 78C -- Central Rolling Red Plains, Eastern Part
Site Note:	Soil Survey Area: OK149 -- Washita County, Oklahoma
Pedon ID: S2013OK149001	Map Unit:
Pedon Note:	Quad Name:
Lab Source ID: SSL	Std Latitude: 35.4105883
Lab Pedon #: 13N2558	Std Longitude: -99.0604367
User Transect ID:
Soil Name as Described/Sampled:
Classification:	Latitude: 35 degrees 24 minutes 38.12 seconds north
Soil Name as Correlated:	Longitude: 99 degrees 3 minutes 37.57 seconds west
Classification:	Datum: WGS84
Pedon Type:	UTM Zone: 14
Pedon Purpose: research site	UTM Easting: 494513 meters
Taxon Kind:	UTM Northing: 3918579 meters
Associated Soils:
Physiographic Division:	Primary Earth Cover: Grass/herbaceous cover
Physiographic Province:	Secondary Earth Cover: Savanna rangeland
Physiographic Section:	Existing Vegetation: broom snakeweed, curlycup gumweed, plantain, prairie threeawn, pricklypear
State Physiographic Area:	Parent Material:
Local Physiographic Area:	Bedrock Kind: siltstone
Geomorphic Setting: on backslope of None Assigned	Bedrock Depth:
Upslope Shape: convex	Bedrock Hardness: very strongly cemented
Cross Slope Shape: convex	Bedrock Fracture Interval:
Particle Size Control Section: 0 to 20 cm.	Surface Fragments:
Description origin:	Description database: KSSL

Diagnostic Features:

ochric epipedon 0 to 8 cm.
paralithic contact 20 to 46 cm.
lithic contact 46 to cm.

Top Depth (cm)	Bottom Depth (cm)	Restriction Kind	Restriction Hardness
20	46	bedrock, paralithic	moderately cemented
46		bedrock, lithic	very strongly cemented

Cont. Site ID: S2013OK149001

Pedon ID: S2013OK149001

Slope (%)	Elevation (meters)	Aspect (deg)	MAAT (C)	MSAT (C)	MWAT (C)	MAP (mm)	Frost-Free Days	Drainage Class	Slope Length (meters)	Upslope Length (meters)
4.5	515.0	320	15.0				211

A--0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) silt loam, reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), dry; 14 percent sand; 58 percent silt; 18 percent clay; strong fine granular structure; loose, loose, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; many very fine roots throughout and common fine roots throughout; 2 percent nonflat angular weakly cemented 2 to 25-millimeter siltstone fragments; very slight effervescence, by HCl, 1 normal; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N03208

Bw--8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) extremely gravelly silt loam, reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), dry; 14 percent sand; 58 percent silt; 18 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; loose, loose, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; many very fine roots throughout and common fine roots throughout; 90 percent nonflat angular weakly cemented 2 to 20-millimeter siltstone fragments; slight effervescence, by HCl, 1 normal; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N03209

Cr1--20 to 31 centimeters (7.9 to 12.2 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6), red (2.5YR 4/6), dry; many very fine roots in cracks; strong effervescence, by HCl, 1 normal; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N03210

Cr2--31 to 46 centimeters (12.2 to 18.1 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6), red (2.5YR 4/6), dry; many very fine roots in cracks; strong effervescence, by HCl, 1 normal; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N03211

R--46 centimeters (18.1 inches); strong effervescence, by HCl, 1 normal.

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