IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Eram
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2011KS205001
  • User Pedon ID: 2011KS205001
  • User Site Association ID: Clinton Eram projectMLRA 112 - Eram Project
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N7611
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50868
  • 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: 38.2748694
  • Std. Longitude: -95.5994111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 20
  • Range: 16
  • Section: 25
  • Map Unit: 8729—Eram silt loam, 1 to 3 percent slopes
  • State: Kansas
  • MLRA: 112—Cherokee Prairies
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS205—Wilson 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 - 15 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/16/2011
  • 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: 11/16/2011 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • 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

    2

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    300

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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 6.0 very fine roots throughout and 6.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N00965
    Bt1—15 to 37 centimeters (5.9 to 14.6 inches); 60 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) and 40 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay; moderate fine prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 6.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 30 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) clay films on vertical faces of peds; 10 percent fine iron-manganese masses and 10 percent fine yellowish red (5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N00966
    Bt2—37 to 54 centimeters (14.6 to 21.3 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silty clay; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 25 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) clay films on vertical faces of peds; 10 percent fine strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N00967
    BC—54 to 68 centimeters (21.3 to 26.8 inches); 60 percent dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) and 40 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) silty clay; massive, and weak thin platy; very firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 20 percent faint clay films on vertical faces of peds; 10 percent carbonate masses in matrix; 5 percent by volume flat 2-30-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N00968
    Cr—68 to 203 centimeters (26.8 to 79.9 inches); fragments.