Abbie soil series
A representative soil profile of the Abbie series. (Soil Survey of Harper County, Oklahoma by Troy Collier and Steve Alspach, Natural Resources Conservation Service)
The Abbie series consists of very deep, well drained, moderately permeable soils that formed in calcareous loamy alluvium of Pleistocene age. These nearly level to moderately steep soils occur on stream terraces and stream terrace remnants emplaced over calcareous Ogallala sediments in the Southern High Plains, Breaks (MLRA 77E). Slope ranges from 0 to 8 percent. Mean annual temperature is 15 degrees C (59 degrees F), and mean annual precipitation is 530 mm (21 in).
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Aridic Argiustolls
RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS:
Solum thickness: more than 203 cm (80 in)
Thickness of mollic epipedon: 18 to 48 cm (7 to 19 in)
Thickness of argillic horizon: 20 to 178 cm (8 to 70 in
Depth to secondary carbonates: 18 to 76 cm (7 to 30 in)
Depth to calcic horizon: 105 to greater than 203 cm (49 to 80 in)
Depth to lithologic discontinuity (where present): below 100 cm (40 in)
Particle-size control section (weighted average--
Silicate clay: 18 to 35 percent
Coarse fragments: 0 to 5 percent
USE AND VEGETATION: Used mainly for rangeland, with some areas cultivated to wheat, grain sorghum, and feedstock. Some areas are irrigated. Climax native vegetation is dominantly short grasses with a few mid grasses and includes blue grama and buffalograss, with lesser amounts of vine-mesquite, western wheatgrass, sideoats grama, galleta, tobosa, silver bluestem, wild alfalfa, and prairie clover.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: LRR-H; Southern High Plains, Breaks (MLRA 77E) of the northwestern counties of Oklahoma, southwest Kansas, and the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles. This soil is moderately extensive.
Abbie soil series
A representative soil profile of the Abbie series. (Soil Survey of Harper County, Oklahoma by Troy Collier and Steve Alspach, Natural Resources Conservation Service)
The Abbie series consists of very deep, well drained, moderately permeable soils that formed in calcareous loamy alluvium of Pleistocene age. These nearly level to moderately steep soils occur on stream terraces and stream terrace remnants emplaced over calcareous Ogallala sediments in the Southern High Plains, Breaks (MLRA 77E). Slope ranges from 0 to 8 percent. Mean annual temperature is 15 degrees C (59 degrees F), and mean annual precipitation is 530 mm (21 in).
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Aridic Argiustolls
RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS:
Solum thickness: more than 203 cm (80 in)
Thickness of mollic epipedon: 18 to 48 cm (7 to 19 in)
Thickness of argillic horizon: 20 to 178 cm (8 to 70 in
Depth to secondary carbonates: 18 to 76 cm (7 to 30 in)
Depth to calcic horizon: 105 to greater than 203 cm (49 to 80 in)
Depth to lithologic discontinuity (where present): below 100 cm (40 in)
Particle-size control section (weighted average--
Silicate clay: 18 to 35 percent
Coarse fragments: 0 to 5 percent
USE AND VEGETATION: Used mainly for rangeland, with some areas cultivated to wheat, grain sorghum, and feedstock. Some areas are irrigated. Climax native vegetation is dominantly short grasses with a few mid grasses and includes blue grama and buffalograss, with lesser amounts of vine-mesquite, western wheatgrass, sideoats grama, galleta, tobosa, silver bluestem, wild alfalfa, and prairie clover.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: LRR-H; Southern High Plains, Breaks (MLRA 77E) of the northwestern counties of Oklahoma, southwest Kansas, and the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles. This soil is moderately extensive.