IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Eram
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2011KS011001
  • User Pedon ID: 2011KS011001
  • User Site Association ID: Clinton Eram projectMLRA 112 - Eram Project
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N7603
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50860
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 37.9413000
  • Std. Longitude: -94.7166583
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 24
  • Range: 24
  • Section: 24
  • Map Unit: 8749—Eram-Collinsville complex, 5 to 15 percent slopes
  • State: Kansas
  • MLRA: 112—Cherokee Prairies
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS011—Bourbon County, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Gene Campbell and Sheila Staton-Clifton
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active, thermic Aquic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Eram
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, active, thermic Aquic Argiudolls
  • PSC - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/18/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from shale
  • Landscape: plains
  • Landform: interfluve
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/18/2011 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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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    285

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silty clay loam; moderate fine prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 6.0 very fine roots throughout and 6.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N00931
    Bt1—18 to 39 centimeters (7.1 to 15.4 inches); 60 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1) and 40 percent brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 10 percent faint 10YR 2 (10YR2) clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N00932
    Bt2—39 to 57 centimeters (15.4 to 22.4 inches); 60 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and 40 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silty clay loam; strong medium prismatic parts to moderate fine prismatic structure; very firm; 2.0 very fine roots throughout; 30 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3) clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N00933
    BC—57 to 69 centimeters (22.4 to 27.2 inches); 70 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) and 30 percent dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) silty clay loam; weak thick platy, and strong medium prismatic structure; very firm; 2.0 very fine roots throughout; 30 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) clay films on vertical faces of peds; 10 percent medium black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese masses; 7 percent by volume flat 2-10-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N00934
    Cr—69 to 203 centimeters (27.2 to 79.9 inches); fragments.