IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Palermo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 97KS043002l
  • User Pedon ID: 97KS043002l
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 97KS043002l
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41123
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 7 S
  • Range: 22 E
  • Section: 9
  • PLSS Details: 500 feet south and 540 feet east of the northwest corner
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS043—Doniphan
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS043—Doniphan County, Kansas

    • 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: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Palermo
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • PSC - 15 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/5/1997
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/5/1997 (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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—15

    15—124

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    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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    150

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) interior silty clay loam; weak fine granular structure; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 6.9, pH meter. Lab sample # KSUSS1335
    Bt1—15 to 46 centimeters (5.9 to 18.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) interior silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; 6 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly acid, pH 6.4, pH meter. Lab sample # KSUSS1336. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 32964; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 32964
    Bt2—46 to 124 centimeters (18.1 to 48.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior silty clay loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; 10 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 6.6, pH meter. Lab sample # KSUSS1337. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 32917; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 32917
    C—124 to 152 centimeters (48.8 to 59.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior silty clay loam; massive; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly acid, pH 6.3, pH meter. Lab sample # KSUSS1338