Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

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

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Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the KISKY 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 KISKY 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 KISKY 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 KISKY 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 terrace figure.

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Competing Series

Soil series competing with KISKY 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 KISKY 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 KISKY 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 KISKY, 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 KISKY 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
Shimo-Kisky-Schiller complex, 35 to 90 percent slopes5034251625192532162xid00120121:24000
Roney-Kisky-Olaton complex, 25 to 65 percent slopes5029106325192492162tid00120121:24000
Shimo-Kisky complex, 35 to 90 percent slopes5051935251925721630id00120121:24000
Kisky-Whisk-Roney complex, 35 to 90 percent slopes5058833251926021632id00120121:24000
Shimo-Kisky-Olaton complex, 35 to 90 percent slopes5061457251926121633id00120121:24000
Kisky-Shimo-Brownlee complex, 35 to 90 percent slopes5056450251925921631id00120121:24000
Deerrun-Kisky-Drybuck complex, 35 to 90 percent slopes7022525191472qskid00120121:24000
Deerrun-Kisky-Drybuck complex, 35 to 90 percent slopes7021570225198082qskid68320121:24000
Roney-Kisky-Olaton complex, 25 to 65 percent slopes5291074725196562qtwid68320121:24000
Shimo-Kisky-Schiller complex, 35 to 90 percent slopes5341011725196642qtzid68320121:24000
Garval-Kisky complex, 35 to 90 percent slopes726981425197802qvkid68320121:24000
Garval-Kisky-Rock outcrop complex, 35 to 90 percent slopes750466625196822qw2id68320121:24000
Kisky-Shimo-Roney complex, 35 to 90 percent slopes56232692519828p4swid68320121:24000
Drybuck-Deerrun-Kisky complex, 25 to 65 percent slopes720318425198032qvhid68320121:24000
Shimo-Kisky complex, 35 to 90 percent slopes551263125196512qwmid68320121:24000
Kisky-Whisk-Roney complex, 35 to 90 percent slopes558204325197272qwkid68320121:24000
Kisky-Shimo-Brownlee complex, 35 to 90 percent slopes556158825197542qwhid68320121:24000
Shimo-Kisky-Olaton complex, 35 to 90 percent slopes561156525197422qwnid68320121:24000
Roney-Kisky complex, 8 to 35 percent slopes5412822519758tdxnid68320121:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the KISKY 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 .