IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Eram
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2011KS031001
  • User Pedon ID: 2011KS031001
  • User Site Association ID: Clinton Eram projectMLRA 112 - Eram Project
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N7604
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50861
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 38.2748694
  • Std. Longitude: -95.5994111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 20
  • Range: 16
  • Section: 25
  • Map Unit: 8731—Eram silt loam, 3 to 7 percent slopes
  • State: Kansas
  • MLRA: 112—Cherokee Prairies
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS031—Coffey County, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Gene Campbell & 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 - 26 to 76 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/10/2011
  • 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: backslope
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/10/2011 (actual site observation 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
    • 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
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    A1—0 to 12 centimeters (0.0 to 4.7 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; very friable; 6.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N00935
    A2—12 to 26 centimeters (4.7 to 10.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; very friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 2 percent by volume flat 2-20-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N00936
    Bt1—26 to 50 centimeters (10.2 to 19.7 inches); 70 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and 30 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay; moderate fine prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 15 percent faint clay films on vertical faces of peds; 10 percent fine iron-manganese masses and 30 percent fine red (2.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N00937
    Bt2—50 to 78 centimeters (19.7 to 30.7 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) silty clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 15 percent pressure faces and 25 percent distinct brown (10YR 5/3) clay films on vertical faces of peds; 35 percent fine yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N00938
    BC—78 to 99 centimeters (30.7 to 39.0 inches); 80 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) and 20 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) silty clay; weak medium prismatic, and massive; very firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 30 percent distinct grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) clay films on vertical faces of peds; 10 percent gypsum masses in matrix; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N00939
    Cr—99 to 203 centimeters (39.0 to 79.9 inches); fragments.