Soil Data Explorer - FRISITE

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

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

Pedons used in the lab summary:

MLRA	Lab ID	Pedon ID	Taxonname	CI	NSSL / NASIS Reports	Link To SoilWeb GMap
32	98P0453	S1998WY013006	FRISITE	8	Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties	43.0550556,-108.7828333

Water Balance

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

Geomorphic description summaries for the FRISITE 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 3D mountains figure.

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

Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with FRISITE, 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

Click a link below to display the diagram. Note that these diagrams may be from multiple survey areas.

1. WY-2012-03-23-01 | Fremont County, East Part and Dubois Area - July 1993

   Soils and their landscape positions as they relate to parent material, precipitation zones, and temperature regimes (Soil Survey of Fremont County, East Part and Dubois Area, WY; 1993).

Map Units

Map units containing FRISITE 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
Saddle-Frisite complex, 4 to 15 percent slopes	5531		3356656	2z9gy	wy043	1976	1:24000
Saddle-Frisite complex, 4 to 15 percent slopes	5331		3253316	2z9gy	wy603		1:24000
Frisite clay loam, 1 to 3 percent slopes	B108		3367239	30dkr	wy603		1:24000
Frisite loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes	11A		152460	53n2	wy629		1:24000
Persayo-Chipeta-Frisite complex, 4 to 25 percent slopes	5390		3171017	2zyb5	wy629		1:24000
Saddle-Frisite complex, 4 to 15 percent slopes	5331		3195834	2z9gy	wy629		1:24000
Uffens-Muff-Frisite loams, 1 to 12 percent slopes	007	26846	157427	58t9	wy647		1:24000
Frisite-Fivemile complex, 1 to 6 percent slopes	016	9059	157435	58tk	wy647		1:24000
Fivemile-Frisite loams, 0 to 6 percent slopes	071	7072	157628	590s	wy647		1:24000
Frisite-Youngston complex, 1 to 8 percent slopes	302	1210	637782	pdnm	wy647		1:24000
Frisite-Youngston complex, 1 to 8 percent slopes	151	33240	503016	jwfb	wy713	1986	1:24000
Uffens-Muff-Frisite loams, 1 to 12 percent slopes	216	32732	503093	jwht	wy713	1986	1:24000
Frisite-Emblem loams, 1 to 8 percent slopes	150	5737	503015	jwf9	wy713	1986	1:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the FRISITE 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).