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1 <br /> _ . � <br /> KILKENNY SERIES <br /> Ttie Kilkenny series consists of very deep, moderately well drained soils that formed in a ' <br /> - mantle of c[ayey glacial till or flow titl and t�nderlying loamy glacia! till on moraines. <br /> These soils have moderately slow permeability. Their slopes range from 2 to 35 percent. <br /> The mean annual precipitation is about 28 inches. Mean annual air temperature is about <br /> - 48 degrees F. <br /> TA,XONOMIC CL.ASS: Fine, smectitic, mesic�x a uic Vert' <br /> Y q ic Hapludalfs <br /> TXPICAL PEDON: Kilkenny clay loam with a 15 percent linear sidestope on a glacial <br /> moraine in a pastured field. (Colors are for tnoist soil unless otherwise nated.) <br /> Ap--O to 9 inches; very dazk brown (lOYR 2/2) clay loam, dark grayish brown (lOYR <br /> 4/2) dry; weak fine granuIar structure; friable; common very fine roots; about 2 percent <br /> gravel; moderately acid{pH 5.6); abrupt smooth boundayr. (6 to 10 inches thick) <br /> Btl--9 to 19 inches; brown (lOYR�/3) silty clay loam; moderately medium subang�lar <br /> blocky structnre parting to moderately fine subangular blocky; firm; common fine and <br /> very fzne roots; few distinct very dark brown (iOYR 2/2) clay films on faces of Qeds; <br /> about 3 percent gravel; strongly acid; gradual wavy boundary. <br /> Bt2--19 to 38 inches; brown (lOYR 4/3) clay loam; moderate mediam prismatic structure <br /> parting to moderate rnedium subang�lar blocky;�rrri; common very fine roots; common <br /> distinct very dazk brown (lOYR 2/2)clay films on faces of peds; about 5 percent gravel; <br /> strongly acid; gradual wavy boundary. <br /> , <br /> ` Bt3--38 to S3 inches; brown (lOYR 4/3) ciay loam; weak medium sabangular blocky ' <br /> structure parting to weak fine subangular blocky; firm; common distict very dark.brown <br /> (lOYR 2/2)clay flms on faces of peds; about 5 percent gravel; few fine distict brown <br /> {7.SYR 4/4) Fe concentrations;moderately acid; gradual smooth boundary. (Combined <br /> thicicness of tFie Bt horizons is 20 to 40 inches.) <br /> � . � . <br /> • 2BC--53 to 65 inc:hes; light olive brown (2.SY S/4) loam; wealc fine subangular blocicy <br /> structure; few dis�tinct dark brown (lOYR 3/3) clay films on faces of peds; friable; about 8 <br /> percent gravel; ahout 2 percent cobbles; few�ne distinct brown (7.SYR 4/4)Fe deletions; <br /> slightly effervescent; slightly alkaline; gradual wavy boundary. <br /> 2C--65 to 84 inches;light olive brown {2.SY S/4) loam; massive; friable; few <br /> concentcations of light gray (2.SY 7/2) calcium carbonates in pares; brown {7.5YR 4/4} <br /> soft masses of iron-manganese in nodules; about 8 percent gravel; about 2 percent <br /> cobbles; corrimon medium prominent dark yellowish brown{1 QYR 4/6) Fe <br /> concentrations and common mediunn distinct gray(2.SY 5/1) Fe depletions; strongly . <br /> effervescent; moderately alkaline. <br /> TYPE LOCATION: Lz Sueur County, Minnesota; about 3 miles west and 3 miles south <br /> of Montgornery;�about 30Q feet east and 800 feet north of the southwest corner of Sec. <br />