Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the REMUS soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of REMUS, 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 REMUS 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
98S79MI-81-3S1979MI081003Remus7Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties43.0991944,-85.4159722
98S79MI-107-2S1979MI107002Remus5Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties43.5245833,-85.1309444
98S80MI-73-1S1980MI073001Remus5Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties43.6238056,-85.0451667

Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the REMUS 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 REMUS 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 REMUS 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 REMUS 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 mountains figure.

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Competing Series

Soil series competing with REMUS 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 REMUS 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 REMUS 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 mountains figure.

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 REMUS, 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

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  1. MI-2012-02-06-47 | Oceana County - April 1996

    Typical pattern of soils and underlying material in the Spinks-Remus-Fern association (Soil Survey of Oceana County, Michigan; April 1996).

Map Units

Map units containing REMUS 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
Remus-Spinks complex, 1 to 6 percent slopes63B17578186576684lmi07319831:15840
Remus-Spinks complex, 6 to 12 percent slopes63C9811186577684mmi07319831:15840
Remus sandy loam, 1 to 6 percent slopes67B5195186584684vmi07319831:15840
Remus-Spinks complex, 12 to 18 percent slopes63D2454186578684nmi07319831:15840
Remus sandy loam, 6 to 12 percent slopes67C1809186585684wmi07319831:15840
Remus-Spinks complex, 18 to 35 percent slopes63E464186579684pmi07319831:15840
Remus sandy loam, 12 to 18 percent slopes67D416186586684xmi07319831:15840
Remus-Spinks complex, 6 to 12 percent slopes38C19161925536gcdmi10519921:15840
Remus-Spinks complex, 0 to 6 percent slopes38B17901925526gccmi10519921:15840
Remus-Spinks complex, 12 to 18 percent slopes38D8741925546gcfmi10519921:15840
Remus fine sandy loam, 1 to 6 percent slopes16B7311924686g8nmi10519921:15840
Remus fine sandy loam, 6 to 12 percent slopes16C7161924696g8pmi10519921:15840
Remus fine sandy loam, 12 to 18 percent slopes16D6351924706g8qmi10519921:15840
Remus-Spinks complex, 18 to 30 percent slopes38E3181925556gcgmi10519921:15840
Remus-Spinks complex, 18 to 30 percent slopes, lake moderated102E29132236802zdhfmi10519921:15840
Remus sandy loam, 0 to 6 percent slopes16B2065718771569bbmi10719821:15840
Remus sandy loam, 6 to 12 percent slopes16C699618771669bcmi10719821:15840
Remus sandy loam, 12 to 18 percent slopes16D149518771769bdmi10719821:15840
Remus sandy loam, 18 to 35 percent slopes16E85718771869bfmi10719821:15840
Spinks-Remus-Fern complex, 0 to 6 percent slopes42B58901890316bpsmi12719921:15840
Spinks-Remus-Fern complex, 6 to 12 percent slopes42C45941890326bptmi12719921:15840
Remus fine sandy loam, 1 to 6 percent slopes16B14401889386blsmi12719921:15840
Spinks-Remus-Fern complex, 12 to 18 percent slopes, lake moderated105D103732236872zdhvmi12719921:15840
Remus fine sandy loam, 6 to 12 percent slopes16C7431889396bltmi12719921:15840
Spinks-Remus-Fern complex, 18 to 35 percent slopes, lake moderated105E45432286312zdhwmi12719921:15840
Spinks-Remus-Fern complex, 12 to 18 percent slopes42D4161890336bpvmi12719921:15840
Remus fine sandy loam, 12 to 18 percent slopes16D2751889406blvmi12719921:15840
Spinks-Remus-Fern complex, 18 to 35 percent slopes42E2281890346bpwmi12719921:15840
Mollineaux-Remus complex, 18 to 35 percent slopes139E746894104z0d2mi61420051:12000
Remus-Spinks complex, 6 to 12 percent slopes38C583894066z0bvmi61420051:12000
Remus-Spinks complex, 0 to 6 percent slopes38B547894067z0bwmi61420051:12000
Mollineaux-Remus complex, 12 to 18 percent slopes139D530894105z0d3mi61420051:12000
Remus-Spinks complex, 18 to 35 percent slopes38E497894062z0bqmi61420051:12000
Fern-Remus complex, 0 to 6 percent slopes36B477894065z0btmi61420051:12000
Remus-Spinks complex, 12 to 18 percent slopes38D321894063z0brmi61420051:12000
Fern-Remus complex, 6 to 12 percent slopes36C318894064z0bsmi61420051:12000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the REMUS 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 .