IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Eram
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2011MO037001
  • User Pedon ID: 2011MO037001
  • User Site Association ID: Clinton Eram projectMLRA 112 - Eram Project
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N7614
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50871
  • Print Date: 4/3/2025

    • 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: 38.5410806
  • Std. Longitude: -94.1220528
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 43 N
  • Range: 29 W
  • Section: 4
  • Map Unit: 40064—Eram silty clay loam, 5 to 14 percent slopes
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO037—Cass
  • MLRA: 112—Cherokee Prairies
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO037—Cass County, Missouri

    • 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 - 28 to 78 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/20/2011
  • 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: 10/20/2011 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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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    Ap—0 to 11 centimeters (0.0 to 4.3 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume subangular 2-5-75 millimeter chert fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N00977
    A—11 to 28 centimeters (4.3 to 11.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume subangular 2-5-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N00978
    Bt1—28 to 54 centimeters (11.0 to 21.3 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 30 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; 5 percent fine yellowish red (5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent medium yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron; 10 percent by volume subangular 2-5-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N00979
    Bt2—54 to 89 centimeters (21.3 to 35.0 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) silty clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 30 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; 25 percent medium light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N00980
    Cr—89 to 203 centimeters (35.0 to 79.9 inches); 60 percent gray (2.5Y 5/1) and 40 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6); fragments.