IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Eram
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2011KS121001
  • User Pedon ID: 2011KS121001
  • User Site Association ID: Clinton Eram projectMLRA 112 - Eram Project
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N7607
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50864
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 38.4607667
  • Std. Longitude: -94.8702694
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 18
  • Range: 23
  • Section: 28
  • Map Unit: 8735—Eram silty clay loam, 3 to 7 percent slopes
  • State: Kansas
  • MLRA: 112—Cherokee Prairies
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS121—Miami 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 - 19 to 69 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: backslope
  • 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 - 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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    4

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    268

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    Ap—0 to 19 centimeters (0.0 to 7.5 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silty clay loam; weak fine prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 6.0 very fine roots throughout and 6.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N00949
    Bt1—19 to 42 centimeters (7.5 to 16.5 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 20 percent faint clay films on vertical faces of peds; 15 percent fine strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N00950
    Bt2—42 to 64 centimeters (16.5 to 25.2 inches); 70 percent brown (10YR 4/3) and 30 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay; strong medium prismatic parts to weak fine wedge structure; very firm; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 30 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds and 30 percent pressure faces on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent medium dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron and 1 percent fine iron-manganese concretions; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N00951
    Bt3—64 to 84 centimeters (25.2 to 33.1 inches); 50 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and 30 percent olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) and 20 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1) silty clay; strong medium prismatic parts to moderate fine wedge structure; very firm; 2.0 very fine roots throughout; 20 percent slickensides (pedogenic) and 30 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds and 30 percent pressure faces on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent medium iron-manganese concretions and 2 percent fine dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N00952
    BC—84 to 97 centimeters (33.1 to 38.2 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silty clay; moderate medium prismatic, and weak thin platy structure; very firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 10 percent slickensides (pedogenic) and 20 percent pressure faces on vertical faces of peds and 30 percent faint clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent fine iron-manganese concretions and 10 percent fine dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N00953
    Cr—97 to 203 centimeters (38.2 to 79.9 inches); fragments.