LOCATION MAYES OK+AR KS MO

Established Series
Rev. ELC-JWF-RGC
09/2015

MAYES SERIES

The Mayes series consists of very deep, somewhat poorly drained soils that formed in material weathered from loamy and clayey sediments of Pennsylvanian and Mississippi age. These nearly level soils are on broad, smooth uplands in the Cherokee Prairie. Slope ranges from 0 to 1 percent. Mean annual precipitation is 1092 mm (43 inches), and mean annual temperature is 14.4 degrees C (58 degrees F).

TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine, smectitic, thermic Aquertic Argiudolls

TYPICAL PEDON: Mayes silty clay loam - in hayland on a paleoterrace, at an elevation of 195 meters (640 feet) above mean sea level. (Colors are for moist soil unless otherwise stated.)

A-- 0 to 23 cm (0 to 9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silty clay loam, gray (10YR 5/1) dry; moderate medium granular structure; hard, friable; neutral; gradual smooth boundary. [18 to 31 cm (7 to 12 inches) thick]

AB-- 23 to 36 cm (9 to 14 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silty clay loam, gray (10YR 5/1) dry; moderate medium granular structure; hard, friable; neutral; gradual smooth boundary. [0 to 20 cm (0 to 8 inches) thick]

Btg1-- 36 to 86 cm (14 to 34 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) clay, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) dry; moderate medium blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm; common shiny surfaces on faces of peds; few fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) redoximorphic concentrations; few fine iron-manganese concretions; moderately acid; gradual smooth boundary. [28 to 51 cm (11 to 20 inches) thick]

Btg2-- 86 to 109 cm (34 to 43 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) clay, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) dry; moderate medium blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm; common shiny surfaces on faces of peds; few fine gypsum crystals; few medium distinct dark gray (10YR 4/1) redoximorphic depletions; few iron-manganese concretions; neutral; diffuse smooth boundary. [18 to 46 cm (7 to 18 inches) thick]

BCg-- 109 to 152 cm (43 to 60 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) clay, grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) dry; weak medium blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm; few fine calcium carbonate concretions; few fine gypsum crystals; few fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) redoximorphic concentrations and few medium distinct gray (10YR 5/1) redoximorphic depletions; few iron-manganese concretions; slightly alkaline.

TYPE LOCATION: Mayes County, Oklahoma; about 3.2 kilometers (2 miles) northeast of Pryor; 244 meters (800 feet) east of the northwest corner of sec. 3, T. 21 N., R. 19 E. USGS Pryor, Oklahoma topographic quadrangle; lat. 36 degrees 20 minutes 11.08 seconds N and long. 95 degrees 16 minutes 16, 85 seconds W; UTM Zone 15; 296146.00 easting and 4023660.00 northing; NAD 83.

RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS:
Solum thickness: 102 to more than 152 cm (40 to 60 inches)
Cracks: 1 cm or more in width; 50 cm or more in depth
Mollic epipedon: 0 to 147 cm (0 to 58 inches)
Depth to argillic horizon: 31 to 51 cm (12 to 20 inches)
Depth to redox concentrations: 31 to 56 cm (12 to 22 inches)
Particle-size control section: (weighted average) 35 to 50 percent clay

A horizon:
Hue: 10YR or 2.5Y
Value: 2 or 3
Chroma: 0 to 2
Texture: silt loam, clay loam, or silty clay loam
Clay content: 12 to 35 percent
Reaction: strongly acid to neutral

AB horizon: (where present)
Hue: 10YR or 2.5Y
Value: 2 or 3
Chroma: 0 to 2
Texture: silt loam, clay loam, or silty clay loam
Clay content: 12 to 35 percent
Reaction: strongly acid to neutral

Btg horizons:
Hue: 10YR or 2.5Y
Value: 2, 3, or 4
Chroma: 0 to 2
Texture: clay loam, silty clay loam, clay, or silty clay
Clay content: 35 to 50 percent
Redoximorphic features: masses of reduced iron
Reaction: moderately acid to neutral

BCg horizon:
Hue: 10YR to 5Y
Value: 3 to 5
Chroma: 1 to 4
Texture: clay loam, silty clay loam, clay, or silty clay
Clay content: 35 to 50 percent
Concentrations: few or common carbonate concretions
Reaction: neutral to moderately alkaline

Cg or C horizon: (where present)
Hue: 10YR or 2.5Y
Value: 4 or 5
Chroma: 1 to 4
Texture: clay or silty clay
Clay content: 35 to 50 percent
Concentrations: few or common carbonate concretions
Reaction: neutral to moderately alkaline

COMPETING SERIES: There are no competing series. Similar soils include the Bernard, Carwile, Muldrow, Santee, and Woodson soil series. Bernard soils have an A horizon 8 cm (3 inches) or less and a soil temperature higher than 16.7 degrees C (62 degrees F). Carwile, Muldrow, and Santee soils have no cracks to depths of 51 cm (20 inches) when dry. Woodson soils contain an abrupt textural change between the A and Bt horizon

GEOGRAPHIC SETTING: Mayes soils are on paleoterraces on plains. Slope ranges from 0 to 1 percent. The soils formed in clayey and loamy alluvium. Mean annual precipitation ranges from 813 to 1219 mm (32 to 48 inches). Mean annual temperature ranges from 11.1 to 17.2 degrees C (52 to 63 degrees F). Elevation is 175 to 350 meters (574 to 1148 feet) above mean sea level. Annual Thornthwaite P-E Index is 64 to 80.

GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS: These are the Choteau, Dennis, Lenapah, Lula, Okemah, Parsons, Summit, and Taloka soils. Choteau and Dennis soils occur on slightly higher landscape positions, do not contain smectitic (montmorillonitic) mineralogy, and contain no aquic moisture regime. Parsons and Taloka soils occur on similar landscape positions, have an abrupt texture change from the albic horizon to the argillic horizon, do not have mollic epipedon, and do not contain smectitic (montmorillonitic) mineralogy. Lenapah soils are well drained and are shallow to limestone and occur on slightly lower landscape positions. Okemah soils occur on similar landscape positions, contain no aquic moisture regime, and do not contain smectitic (montmorillonitic) mineralogy. Lula soils are moderately well drained and moderately deep to limestone and occur on slightly lower landscape positions. Summit soils occur on similar landscape positions and contain no aquic moisture regime. Apperson soils occur on interfluves on plains and do not contain smectitic (montmorillonitic) mineralogy.

DRAINAGE AND SATURATED HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY: Somewhat poorly drained. Depth to the top of a perched seasonal high water table ranges from 31 to 61 cm (1 to 2 feet) between December and April in normal years. Potential for surface runoff is very slow. Saturated hydraulic conductivity is low. Permeability is very slow.

USE AND VEGETATION: Mainly used for cultivated crops such as wheat, corn, soybeans, and grain sorghum. Some areas are used for tame pasture or rangeland. Native vegetation is tall grass prairie.

DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: MLRA 112 in Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma. The series is moderately extensive.

MLRA SOIL SURVEY REGIONAL OFFICE (MO) RESPONSIBLE: Indianapolis, Indiana

SERIES ESTABLISHED: Mayes County, Oklahoma; 1972.

REMARKS:
Diagnostic horizons and features in this pedon are:
Mollic epipedon -0 to 109 cm (0 to 43 inches). (A, AB, Btg1, Btg2 horizons)
Argillic horizon - (36 to 109 cm (14 to 43 inches). (Btg1, Btg2 horizons)

ADDITIONAL DATA:
Taxonomic Version: Keys to Soil Taxomony, Twelfth Edition, 2014

TABULAR SERIES DATA:

NASIS:  Data mapunit ID 757475 represents MLRA 112 - Mayes silty clay loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes

Vertic Argiaquolls - soils with an aquic moisture regime; the lower part of the mollic epipedon (Btg2 horizon) has distinct or prominent mottles; have an argillic horizon; have cracks at some period in most years that are 1 cm or more wide at a depth of 51 cm (20 inches), that are at least 30 cm (12 inches) long in some part, that extend upward to the surface or to the base of the Ap horizon, and have COLE of 0.09 or more in the Btg1 horizon and a potential linear extensibility of 6 cm or more in the soil to a depth of 102 cm (40 inches); and have more than 35 percent clay content in the Btg1 horizon.

Supporting NSSC Soil Characterization Lab data pedons:
S2012MO217001
S2012OK115003
1965AR007002
1980AR08702

Supporting User Pedons:
1965AR00702
1972OK097016
1974KS0030011
1980AR08702
1998MO217014
2012MO217001
2012OK115003
S2012MO217001
S2012OK115003

National Cooperative Soil Survey
U.S.A.