Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the FROGCREEK soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of FROGCREEK, 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 FROGCREEK 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
90A01N0584S2000WI129024Frogcreek6Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties46.0608292,-91.6293259
90A01N0587S2000WI129032Frogcreek7Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties46.1402702,-91.6540527
90A01N0589S2000WI129035Frogcreek7Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties46.0758286,-91.6268311

Water Balance

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

Competing Series

Soil series competing with FROGCREEK 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 FROGCREEK 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 FROGCREEK 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.

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Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with FROGCREEK, 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 FROGCREEK 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
Frogcreek-Magroc-Stinnett complex, 0 to 15 percent slopes, rocky3424C535713835851hfqswi00720051:12000
Frogcreek-Stinnett-Wozny complex, 0 to 15 percent slopes, very stony853C1194782495v87swi00720051:12000
Rock outcrop-Frogcreek-Metonga complex, 2 to 45 percent slopes, very stony524E821782477v876wi00720051:12000
Frogcreek silt loam, 6 to 15 percent slopes, very stony857C128782498v87wwi00720051:12000
Frogcreek silt loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes, very stony857B126782497v87vwi00720051:12000
Frogcreek-Magroc-Stinnett complex, 0 to 15 percent slopes, very stony, rocky3424C390613859861hj77wi03120051:12000
Frogcreek-Stinnett-Wozny complex, 0 to 15 percent slopes, very stony853C817781501v76qwi03120051:12000
Rock outcrop-Frogcreek-Metonga complex, 2 to 45 percent slopes, very stony524E726781316v70rwi03120051:12000
Frogcreek silt loam, 6 to 15 percent slopes, very stony857C71781504v76twi03120051:12000
Frogcreek silt loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes, very stony857B63781503v76swi03120051:12000
Frogcreek silt loam, 6 to 15 percent slopes, very stony857C2069626789p170wi11320061:12000
Frogcreek silt loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes, very stony857B2037626788p16zwi11320061:12000
Frogcreek-Stinnett-Wozny complex, 0 to 15 percent slopes, very stony853C770626786p16xwi11320061:12000
Frogcreek-Stinnett-Wozny complex, 0 to 15 percent slopes, very stony853C8142449050h28hwi12920021:12000
Frogcreek silt loam, 6 to 15 percent slopes, very stony857C5927449053h28lwi12920021:12000
Frogcreek-Magroc-Stinnett complex, 0 to 15 percent slopes, very stony, rocky3424C3942723606s8z4wi12920021:12000
Frogcreek silt loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes, very stony857B3573449052h28kwi12920021:12000
Rock outcrop-Frogcreek-Metonga complex, 2 to 45 percent slopes, very stony524E681449014h27bwi12920021:12000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the FROGCREEK 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 .