IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Palma
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1969UT053006
  • User Pedon ID: S1969UT053006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 69C0182
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43755
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 37.0861130
  • Std. Longitude: -113.1055527
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 42S
  • Range: 11W
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: about 1/8 mile north of stock pond, 1,000 feet north and 200 feet east of the southwest corner
  • Location Description: about 1/8 mile north of stock pond.
  • State: Utah
  • County: UT053—Washington
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: UT641—Washington County Area, Utah

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Vear Mortensen
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Palma
  • PSC - 28 to 71 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/23/1969
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: alluvial fan
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/23/1969 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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

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    1472

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    330

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    12.8

    20.6

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    Ap—0 to 28 centimeters (0.0 to 11.0 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), reddish brown (2.5YR 5/4), dry; sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular and 0.5 coarse pores; fragments; noneffervescent; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 69C00935
    B21t—28 to 48 centimeters (11.0 to 18.9 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6), red (2.5YR 5/6), dry; sandy clay loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 21.0 very fine and 0.5 medium and coarse and 3.0 fine pores; 30 percent clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 69C00936. lime is disseminated.
    B22tca—48 to 71 centimeters (18.9 to 28.0 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6), reddish brown (2.5YR 5/4), dry; sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine and 0.5 fine and medium pores; 30 percent clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine gypsum threads; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 69C00937. lime is disseminated and some is segregated in veins.
    C1—71 to 114 centimeters (28.0 to 44.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6), light reddish brown (2.5YR 6/4), dry; loamy sand; massive; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine and medium pores; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 69C00938. lime is disseminated.
    C2—114 to 150 centimeters (44.9 to 59.1 inches); red (2.5YR 5/6), light reddish brown (2.5YR 6/4), dry; sand; massive; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, unspecified. Lab sample # 69C00939. lime is disseminated.