Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the SOAPCREEK soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of SOAPCREEK, 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 SOAPCREEK 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
4488P034387MT031017Soapcreek6Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties46.0333328,-111.4169464

Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the SOAPCREEK 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 SOAPCREEK 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 SOAPCREEK 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 SOAPCREEK 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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Competing Series

Soil series competing with SOAPCREEK 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 SOAPCREEK series and competing. Series are sorted according to hierarchical clustering of median values. Source: SSURGO map unit geometry and 1981-2010, 800m PRISM data .

There are insufficient data to create the annual climate figure.

Geomorphic description summaries for the SOAPCREEK 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 .

There are insufficient data to create the 2D hillslope position figure.

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

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 SOAPCREEK, 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 SOAPCREEK 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
Nesda, occasionally flooded-Birchfield-Soapcreek, rarely flooded complex, 0 to 8 percent slopes105B26946671ndrymt02719791:24000
Soapcreek silty clay loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes514A87515555756vzmt62219971:24000
Soapcreek-Bonebasin complex, 0 to 2 percent slopes507A54915554656vmmt62219971:24000
Nesda, occasionally flooded-Birchfield-Soapcreek, rarely flooded complex, 0 to 8 percent slopes105B207225232391ndrymt62420211:24000
Fairway-Meadowcreek-Soapcreek complex, 0 to 2 percent slopes, rarely flooded135A177219126282267pmt62420211:24000
Soapcreek clay loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, rarely flooded409A79519143982282smt62420211:24000
Soapcreek silty clay, 0 to 2 percent slopes508A17781478384ytzmt63019911:24000
Soapcreek-Fairway complex, 0 to 2 percent slopes3A18221480254z10mt63720141:24000
Soapcreek-Fairway complex, 0 to 2 percent slopes, foothills33A81025230222q9zzmt63720141:24000
Soapcreek-Clunton complex, 0 to 4 percent slopes, occasionally flooded501A1523778052kt9dmt63720141:24000
Soapcreek, moderately saline-Adger complex, 0 to 2 percent slopes, rarely flooded500A423778042kt9cmt63720141:24000
Soapcreek clay loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes249B209814980950wkmt63920001:24000
Soapcreek-Absher family complex, 0 to 4 percent slopes461B60714962150phmt63920001:24000
Soapcreek-Lallie family complex, 0 to 8 percent slopes396C1401499565119mt63920001:24000
Nesda, occasionally flooded-Birchfield-Soapcreek, rarely flooded complex, 0 to 8 percent slopes105B9115316151ndrymt66620081:24000
Soapcreek-Clunton complex, 0 to 4 percent slopes, occasionally flooded501A93381569275895mt6691:24000
Soapcreek, moderately saline-Absay complex, 0 to 2 percent slopes, rarely flooded500A14581569265894mt6691:24000
Soapcreek clay loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, rarely flooded56A1116156824585vmt6691:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the SOAPCREEK 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 .