Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the GELDERMAN soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of GELDERMAN, and applied along 1-cm thick depth slices. Solid lines are the slice-wise median, bounded on either side by the interval defined by the slice-wise 5th and 95th percentiles. The median is the value that splits the data in half. Five percent of the data are less than the 5th percentile, and five percent of the data are greater than the 95th percentile. Values along the right hand side y-axis describe the proportion of pedon data that contribute to aggregate values at this depth. For example, a value of "90%" at 25cm means that 90% of the pedons correlated to GELDERMAN were used in the calculation. Source: KSSL snapshot . Methods used to assemble the KSSL snapshot used by SoilWeb / SDE

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Pedons used in the lab summary:

MLRALab IDPedon IDTaxonnameCINSSL / NASIS ReportsLink To SoilWeb GMap
206N1050S2006OR071010Gelderman7Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties45.1608582,-123.3000031
209N0798S2008OR047002Gelderman6Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties44.870945,-123.0769196

Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the GELDERMAN soil series. Monthly precipitation (PPT) and potential evapotranspiration (PET) have been estimated from the 50th percentile of gridded values (PRISM 1981-2010) overlapping with the extent of SSURGO map units containing each series as a major component. Monthly PET values were estimated using the method of Thornthwaite (1948). These (and other) climatic parameters are calculated with each SSURGO refresh and provided by the fetchOSD function of the soilDB package. Representative water storage values (“AWC” in the figures) were derived from SSURGO by taking the 50th percentile of profile-total water storage (sum[awc_r * horizon thickness]) for each soil series. Note that this representation of “water storage” is based on the average ability of most plants to extract soil water between 15 bar (“permanent wilting point”) and 1/3 bar (“field capacity”) matric potential. Soil moisture state can be roughly interpreted as “dry” when storage is depleted, “moist” when storage is between 0mm and AWC, and “wet” when there is a surplus. Clearly there are a lot of assumptions baked into this kind of monthly water balance. This is still a work in progress.

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Sibling Summary

Siblings are those soil series that occur together in map units, in this case with the GELDERMAN series. Sketches are arranged according to their subgroup-level taxonomic structure. Source: SSURGO snapshot , parsed OSD records and snapshot of SC database .

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Select annual climate data summaries for the GELDERMAN series and siblings. Series are sorted according to hierarchical clustering of median values. Source: SSURGO map unit geometry and 1981-2010, 800m PRISM data .

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Geomorphic description summaries for the GELDERMAN series and siblings. Series are sorted according to hierarchical clustering of proportions and relative hydrologic position within an idealized landform (e.g. top to bottom). Most soil series (SSURGO components) are associated with a hillslope position and one or more landform-specific positions: hills, mountain slopes, terraces, and/or flats. Proportions can be interpreted as an aggregate representation of geomorphic membership. The values printed to the left (number of component records) and right (Shannon entropy) of stacked bars can be used to judge the reliability of trends. Small Shannon entropy values suggest relatively consistent geomorphic association, while larger values suggest lack thereof. Source: SSURGO component records .

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There are insufficient data to create the 3D flats position figure.

Competing Series

Soil series competing with GELDERMAN share the same family level classification in Soil Taxonomy. Source: parsed OSD records and snapshot of the SC database .

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Select annual climate data summaries for the GELDERMAN series and competing. Series are sorted according to hierarchical clustering of median values. Source: SSURGO map unit geometry and 1981-2010, 800m PRISM data .

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Geomorphic description summaries for the GELDERMAN series and competing. Series are sorted according to hierarchical clustering of proportions and relative hydrologic position within an idealized landform (e.g. top to bottom). Proportions can be interpreted as an aggregate representation of geomorphic membership. Most soil series (SSURGO components) are associated with a hillslope position and one or more landform-specific positions: hills, mountain slopes, terraces, and/or flats. The values printed to the left (number of component records) and right (Shannon entropy) of stacked bars can be used to judge the reliability of trends. Shannon entropy values close to 0 represent soil series with relatively consistent geomorphic association, while values close to 1 suggest lack thereof. Source: SSURGO component records .

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There are insufficient data to create the 3D terrace figure.

There are insufficient data to create the 3D flats position figure.

Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with GELDERMAN, arranged according to family differentiae. Hovering over a series name will print full classification and a small sketch from the OSD. Source: snapshot of SC database .

Block Diagrams

No block diagrams are available.

Map Units

Map units containing GELDERMAN as a major component. Limited to 250 records.

Map Unit Name Symbol Map Unit Area (ac) Map Unit Key National Map Unit Symbol Soil Survey Area Publication Date Map Scale
Jory-Gelderman complex, 12 to 30 percent slopes9820155852462vpwor00320041:24000
Gelderman-Jory complex, 2 to 12 percent slopes7135612585nkftor00320041:24000
Jory-Gelderman complex, 12 to 30 percent slopes2759E16914045851j4l6or05319771:20000
Gelderman-Jory complex, 12 to 20 percent slopes2748D3927111601j8bzor05319771:20000
Gelderman-Jory complex, 20 to 30 percent slopes2748E427111711j8c0or05319771:20000
Gelderman-Jory complex, 2 to 12 percent slopes2748C127111471j8byor05319771:20000
Jory-Gelderman silt loams, 2 to 12 percent slopes2782C4027111181j8d5or06719751:20000
Jory-Gelderman silty clay loams, 2 to 12 percent slopes2780C239427113781j8d0or07119671:24000
Gelderman-Jory complex, 2 to 12 percent slopes2748C59427112681j8byor07119671:24000
Gelderman-Jory complex, 12 to 20 percent slopes2748D54127113731j8bzor07119671:24000
Jory-Gelderman silt loams, 2 to 12 percent slopes2782C43227113181j8d5or07119671:24000
Gelderman-Jory complex, 20 to 30 percent slopes2748E3427314321j8c0or07119671:24000
Jory-Gelderman silt loams, 2 to 12 percent slopes2782C1727110821j8d5or61019821:20000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the GELDERMAN soil series. To learn more about how this distribution was mapped, or to compare this soil series extent to others, use the Series Extent Explorer (SEE) application. Source: generalization of SSURGO geometry .