IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Palermo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 97KS043002
  • User Pedon ID: 97KS043002
  • User Site Association ID: 2915Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - 10797KS043-7953-077
  • Transect Stop Number - 2
  • Transect Interval - 30.5
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 97KS043002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41122
  • Print Date: 4/23/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 4 S
  • Range: 21 E
  • Section: 30
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS043—Doniphan
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS043—Doniphan County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39094-F8—Halls, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Kacirek
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Palermo
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/7/1997
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty loess derived from mixed
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/7/1997 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 32
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—25

    25—76

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    —51—
    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

    8

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    220

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) interior silty clay loam; 31 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # KSUSS1219
    BA—13 to 25 centimeters (5.1 to 9.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) interior silty clay loam; 31 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; 1 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # KSUSS1220. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 32908; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 32908
    Bt1—25 to 38 centimeters (9.8 to 15.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) interior silty clay loam; 31 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; 4 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # KSUSS1221. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 32909; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 32909
    Bt2—38 to 76 centimeters (15.0 to 29.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) interior silty clay loam; 30 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; 10 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # KSUSS1222. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 32910; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 32910
    C1—76 to 109 centimeters (29.9 to 42.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; 28 percent clay; massive; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # KSUSS1223
    C2—109 to 193 centimeters (42.9 to 76.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior silt loam; 21 percent clay; massive; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # KSUSS1224