IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Eram
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1972KS019008
  • User Pedon ID: 1972KS019008
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory PedonsPedons to KSU 4/29/2011
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 72KS019008
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40944
  • Print Date: 11/13/2024

    • 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: 37.0543594
  • Std. Longitude: -96.1189117
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 34 S
  • Range: 12 E
  • Section: 29
  • PLSS Details: 210 feet north and 26 feet west of southwest corner of southeast quarter
  • Location Description: Approximately 2 miles south and 1 mile west of Peru, Kansas.
  • Map Unit: Ea—ERAM SILTY CLAY LOAM, 1 TO 3 PERCENT SLOPES
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS019—Chautauqua
  • MLRA: 84A—North Cross Timbers
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS019—Chautauqua County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37096-A1—Peru, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: E. Bell
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active, thermic Aquic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Eram
  • PSC - 20 to 50 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/4/2015
  • Classifier - JCP
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Eram
  • Classificaton Date - 3/1/1972
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from clayey shale
  • Landscape: plains
  • Landform: interfluve
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: weakly coherent shale, clayey at 81cm
  • Geology: Douglas Group formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/1/1972 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

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    81 -

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    paralithic materials

    paralithic contact

    0—30

    20—50

    50—81

    81—

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    —30—

    —31—

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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

    2

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    292.6

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    310

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior, dry; silty clay loam; moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable; 6.0 fine roots; 1 percent by volume 2-?-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4875
    Bt1—20 to 30 centimeters (7.9 to 11.8 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) exterior, brown (7.5YR 4/2) exterior, dry; silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 6.0 fine roots; 1 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4876
    Bt2—30 to 50 centimeters (11.8 to 19.7 inches);, brown (7.5YR 4/2) exterior and dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) exterior, dry; silty clay; moderate coarse angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; 1.0 fine roots; clay films on vertical faces of peds and organic stains on vertical faces of peds; 5YR 3/6 (5YR 3/6); fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4877. continuous - phpvsfiid 264593; continuous - phpvsfiid 264593
    BC—50 to 81 centimeters (19.7 to 31.9 inches);, reddish brown (2.5YR 5/3) exterior and brown (7.5YR 4/4) exterior, dry; silty clay loam; weak coarse angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; 1.0 fine roots; organic stains on vertical faces of peds; yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and very dark brown (10YR 2/2), dry, and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), dry,; fragments; diffuse irregular boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4878
    Cr—81 centimeters (31.9 inches); bedrock; fragments. weakly laminated shale; no roots; this horizon was originally described as an "R" horizon, it is weakly cemented and does not slake on rewetting so should be considered a paralthic contact and a Cr horizon