IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Eram
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2011KS059001
  • User Pedon ID: 2011KS059001
  • User Site Association ID: Clinton Eram projectMLRA 112 - Eram Project
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N7605
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50862
  • 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: 38.6147250
  • Std. Longitude: -95.0811389
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 16
  • Range: 21
  • Section: 34
  • Map Unit: 8661—Clareson-Eram silty clay loams, 3 to 15 percent slopes
  • State: Kansas
  • MLRA: 112—Cherokee Prairies
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS059—Franklin 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 58 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 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    12

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    294

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    90

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    A—0 to 12 centimeters (0.0 to 4.7 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silty clay loam; moderate 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 # 12N00940
    AB—12 to 26 centimeters (4.7 to 10.2 inches); 70 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and 30 percent dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N00941
    Bt1—26 to 44 centimeters (10.2 to 17.3 inches); 70 percent dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) and 30 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 30 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; 10 percent by volume flat 2-30-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N00942
    BC—44 to 58 centimeters (17.3 to 22.8 inches); 60 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) and 40 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) silty clay loam; massive, and weak thin platy; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 15 percent faint grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) clay films on vertical faces of peds; 10 percent fine dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; 5 percent by volume flat 2-30-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N00943
    Cr—58 to 203 centimeters (22.8 to 79.9 inches); fragments.