Soil Data Explorer - ABERNATHY

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the ABERNATHY soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of ABERNATHY, 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 ABERNATHY were used in the calculation. Source: KSSL snapshot (updated 2020-03-18). Methods used to assemble the KSSL snapshot used by SoilWeb / SDE

There are insufficient data to create the lab data summary figure.

Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the ABERNATHY 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.

Sibling Summary

Siblings are those soil series that occur together in map units, in this case with the ABERNATHY series. Sketches are arranged according to their subgroup-level taxonomic structure. Source: SSURGO snapshot (updated 2024-02-21), parsed OSD records (updated 2023-10-06) and snapshot of SC database (updated 2023-10-02).

Select annual climate data summaries for the ABERNATHY series and siblings. Series are sorted according to hierarchical clustering of median values. Source: SSURGO map unit geometry and 1981-2010, 800m PRISM data (updated 2023-10-09).

Geomorphic description summaries for the ABERNATHY 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 (updated 2023-10-04).

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

Competing Series

Soil series competing with ABERNATHY share the same family level classification in Soil Taxonomy. Source: parsed OSD records (updated 2023-10-06) and snapshot of the SC database (updated 2023-10-02).

Select annual climate data summaries for the ABERNATHY series and competing. Series are sorted according to hierarchical clustering of median values. Source: SSURGO map unit geometry and 1981-2010, 800m PRISM data (updated 2023-10-09).

There are insufficient data to create the annual climate figure.

Geomorphic description summaries for the ABERNATHY 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 (updated 2023-10-04).

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 ABERNATHY, 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 (updated 2023-10-02).

Block Diagrams

No block diagrams are available.

Map Units

Map units containing ABERNATHY 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
Abernathy-Emory silt loams, 0 to 2 percent slopes	Aa	1000	329113	2sr8q	al049	1953	1:20000
Emory-Abernathy silt loams, 0 to 6 percent slopes	Asu	2098	522816	2sr8r	al071	1943	1:24000
Abernathy-Emory silt loams, 0 to 2 percent slopes	Asv	1379	522817	2sr8q	al071	1943	1:24000
Abernathy-Emory fine sandy loams, 0 to 2 percent slopes	Af	853	522812	2sr8s	al071	1943	1:24000
Abernathy-Emory silt loams, 0 to 2 percent slopes	Ac	8300	330072	2sr8q	al079	1950	1:20000
Emory-Abernathy silt loams, 0 to 6 percent slopes	Ad	3479	330073	2sr8r	al079	1950	1:20000
Abernathy fine sandy loam, undulating phase	Ab	2055	330071	c2gg	al079	1950	1:20000
Abernathy-Emory fine sandy loams, 0 to 2 percent slopes	Aa	1214	330070	2sr8s	al079	1950	1:20000
Abernathy-Emory silt loams, 0 to 2 percent slopes	Asv	14255	522718	2sr8q	al083	1953	1:20000
Emory-Abernathy silt loams, 0 to 6 percent slopes	Asu	2178	522717	2sr8r	al083	1953	1:20000
Abernathy-Emory fine sandy loams, 0 to 2 percent slopes	Af	431	522716	2sr8s	al083	1953	1:20000
Abernathy-Emory silt loams, 0 to 2 percent slopes	Ad	30170	523063	2sr8q	al089	1958	1:24000
Abernathy-Emory fine sandy loams, 0 to 2 percent slopes	Ac	3770	523062	2sr8s	al089	1958	1:24000
Abernathy cherty silt loam	Ab	1189	523061	kk8y	al089	1958	1:24000
Abernathy-Emory silt loams, 0 to 2 percent slopes	Ab	5125	331020	2sr8q	al103	1949	1:15840
Abernathy-Emory fine sandy loams, 0 to 2 percent slopes	Aa	2983	331019	2sr8s	al103	1949	1:15840

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the ABERNATHY 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 (updated 2023-10-04).