IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Eram
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2011KS125001
  • User Pedon ID: 2011KS125001
  • User Site Association ID: Clinton Eram projectMLRA 112 - Eram Project
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N7608
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50865
  • 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: 37.3260806
  • Std. Longitude: -95.6561000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 31
  • Range: 16
  • Section: 27
  • Map Unit: 8733—Eram silty clay loam, 1 to 3 percent slopes
  • State: Kansas
  • MLRA: 112—Cherokee Prairies
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS125—Montgomery County, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Gene Campbell
  • 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 - 10/19/2011
  • 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: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/19/2011 (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

    3

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    256

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    A—0 to 26 centimeters (0.0 to 10.2 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 6.0 very fine roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N00954
    Bt1—26 to 45 centimeters (10.2 to 17.7 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 10 percent faint clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N00955
    Bt2—45 to 66 centimeters (17.7 to 26.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silty clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 2.0 very fine roots throughout; 30 percent faint dark gray (10YR 4/1) clay films on vertical faces of peds; 10 percent fine dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N00956
    Bt3—66 to 86 centimeters (26.0 to 33.9 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) silty clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 25 percent faint very dark gray (10YR 3/1) clay films on vertical faces of peds; 10 percent medium yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N00957
    Cr—86 to 203 centimeters (33.9 to 79.9 inches); fragments.