LOCATION LUCIEN OK+KS

Established Series
Rev. EGF:GFS:JLD
01/2016

LUCIEN SERIES

The Lucien series consists of shallow, well drained soils on the summits and shoulders of low hills that formed in material weathered from sandstone, interbedded with clay, siltstone, or sandy shale of Permian age. These soils are in the Central Rolling Red Prairies (MLRA-80A). Slopes are 1 to 30 percent. Mean annual precipitation is 840 mm (33 in), and mean annual temperature is 15.6 degrees C (60 degrees F).

TAXONOMIC CLASS: Loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic, shallow Udic Haplustolls

TYPICAL PEDON: Lucien very fine sandy loam-rangeland, at an elevation of 335 m (1100 ft). (Colors are for dry soil unless otherwise stated.)

A--0 to 10 cm (0 to 4 in); brown (7.5YR 4/2) very fine sandy loam, dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) moist; moderate fine and medium granular structure; slightly hard, very friable; many very fine and fine roots throughout; common irregular worm casts; few very fine constricted tubular, and common fine and medium constricted tubular pores; slightly acid; clear smooth boundary. (Thickness of the A horizon is 10 to 25 cm [4 to 10 in])

BA--10 to 20 cm (4 to 8 in); brown (7.5YR 4/2) very fine sandy loam; dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) moist; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable; common very fine and fine roots throughout; common irregular worm casts; many very fine and few fine constricted tubular pores; neutral; clear smooth boundary. (Thickness of the BA horizon is 0 to 20 cm [0 to 8 in])

Bw--20 to 36 cm (8 to 14 in); brown (7.5YR 4/4) very fine sandy loam; dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) moist; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable; common very fine and fine roots throughout; common irregular worm casts; common very fine constricted tubular pores; 10 percent sandstone pebbles, noncalcareous having a yellowish red (5YR 5/6) weathering rind 1/4 inch to 1/2 inch thick, interior is strong brown (7.5YR 5/6); neutral; abrupt wavy boundary. (Thickness of the Bw horizon is 8 to 33 cm [3 to 13 in])

Cr--36 to 51 cm (14 to 20 in); 75 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), and 25 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) weathered bedrock; 75 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), and 25 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) moist; few very fine and fine roots in cracks; neutral.

TYPE LOCATION: Noble County, Oklahoma; about 6 mile east and 8 miles north of Perry; 3,000 feet east and 2,450 feet south of the northwest corner of sec. 2, T. 22 N., R. 1 E. North

USGS topographic quadrangle: Red Rock, OK
Latitude: 36 degrees, 24 minutes, 48 seconds N
Longitude: 97 degrees, 9 minutes, 54 seconds W
Datum: NAD 83

Decimal degrees:
Latitude: 36.413200
Longitude: -97.1646800

UTM Northing: 4031380.00
UTM Easting: 6645553.00
UTM Zone: 14N

RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS:
Depth of soil: 25 to 51 cm (10 to 20 in)
Thickness of the mollic epipedon: 18 cm (7 in) or more thick
Rock fragments: sandstone fragments, 0 to 30 percent by volume. About 0 to 10 percent by volume is less than 76 mm (3 in) in diameter and 0 to 20 percent by volume is more than 76 mm (3 in) in diameter in all horizons
Effervescence: noneffervescent in all horizons

A horizon:
Hue: 2.5YR to 7.5YR
Value: 4 or 5 dry, 3 or 4 moist
Chroma: 2 or 3 dry or moist
Texture: loam, fine sandy loam, or very fine sandy loam and their gravelly or stony phases
Reaction: slightly acid

BA horizon:
Hue: 2.5YR to 7.5YR
Value: 4 or 5 dry or moist
Chroma: 3 to 6 dry or moist
Texture: loam, fine sandy loam, or very fine sandy loam and their gravelly or stony phases
Reaction: slightly acid to neutral

Bw horizon:
Hue: 2.5YR to 7.5YR
Value: 4 to 6 dry or moist
Chroma: 4 to 8 dry or moist
Texture: loam, fine sandy loam, or very fine sandy loam and their gravelly or stony phases
Reaction: neutral

Cr horizon:
Hue: 2.5YR or 5YR
Value: 4 to 6
Chroma: 4 to 8
Other features: It is rippable sandstone interbedded with clay, siltstone, or sandy shale. This material is paralithic with a high excavation difficulty. Fractures are greater than 10 cm (4 in) apart. The material is dense enough to be root restrictive. Most of this material slakes in water within 15 hours.
Reaction: moderately acid to slightly alkaline

COMPETING SERIES: There are no series in the same family. Similar soils in MLRA 80A are Highview, Ironmound, and Masham series; and Darnell in MLRA 84A.
Highview and Masham soils: are clayey, and weathered from shale
Ironmound soils: do not have a mollic epipedon
Darnell soils: do not have a mollic epipedon, and have siliceous mineralogy

GEOGRAPHIC SETTING:
Parent material: material weathered from sandstone interbedded with clay, siltstone, or sandy shale of Permian age
Landscape: Low hills of the Central Rolling Red Prairies (MLRA 80A)
Landform: summits and shoulders of low hills
Slope: 1 to 30 percent
Climate: Udic-Ustic
Mean Annual Precipitation: 660 to 1041 mm (26 to 41 in)
Mean Annual Temperature: 13.9 to 17.2 degrees C (57 to 63 degrees F)
Frost-free period: 181 to 240 days
Elevation: 213 to 457 m (700 to 1500 ft)
Thornthwaite Annual P-E indices: 44 to 64

GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS: These are the competing series and Coyle, Grainola, Kingfisher, Nash, Shidler, Steedman, Stoneburg, and Zaneis series.
Coyle, Grainola, Kingfisher, Nash, Steedman, Stoneburg, and Zaneis soils: usually occur on adjacent hill slopes
Coyle, Grainola, Kingfisher, Nash, and Steedman soils: have a solum more than 20 in thick
Coyle, Grainola, Kingfisher, Steedman, Stoneburg, and Zaneis soils: have argillic horizons
Shidler soils: occur on summits and shoulders over limestone

DRAINAGE AND PERMEABILITY:
Drainage: Well drained
Runoff: very high
Permeability: high

USE AND VEGETATION: Mainly in rangeland and used for grazing for livestock. Some of the less sloping areas in complexes with deeper soils are cultivated to small grains or tame pasture. Native vegetation consists of mid and tall prairie grasses.

DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Oklahoma, Kansas, and Texas; Land Resource Region H; Central Rolling Red Prairies, MLRA 80A; moderately extensive.

MLRA SOIL SURVEY REGIONAL OFFICE (MO) RESPONSIBLE: Temple, Texas

SERIES ESTABLISHED: Noble County, Oklahoma; 1947 by E.G Fitzgerald.

REMARKS:
Updated competing series, taxonomic version, saturated hydraulic conductivity, and formatting (JLD 01/2016).

Diagnostic horizons and features recognized in this pedon are:
Mollic epipedon: 0 to 20 cm (8 in) (A and BA horizons)
Cambic horizon: 20 to 36 cm (8 to 14 in) (Bw horizon)
Paralithic contact: 36 cm (14 in) (Cr horizon)

ADDITIONAL DATA: Lab sample 76-OK-103-2 by Oklahoma State University. NSSL sample S91OK-103-001, complete characterization.

Taxonomic Version: Keys to Soil Taxonomy, Twelfth Edition, 2014

National Cooperative Soil Survey
U.S.A.