Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the VADNAIS soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of VADNAIS, 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 VADNAIS 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 VADNAIS 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 VADNAIS 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 VADNAIS 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 VADNAIS 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 VADNAIS 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 VADNAIS 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 VADNAIS 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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Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with VADNAIS, 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

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Map Units

Map units containing VADNAIS 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
Hopburn-Vadnais-Rock outcrop complex, 1 to 12 percent slopes11231043415038751h6id75819981:24000
Katseanes-Rock outcrop-Vadnais complex, 1 to 12 percent slopes46-B5544202366925xsnid75819981:24000
Vadnais-Rock outcrop complex, 1 to 12 percent slopes104636815038251h1id75819981:24000
Vadnais-Katseanes-Sadorus loams, 2 to 8 percent slopes142170202367525xsvid75819981:24000
Hagenbarth-Vadnais silt loams, 1 to 12 percent slopes3254202366825xsmid75819981:24000
Vadnais-Chickenridge-Rock outcrop complex, 1 to 12 percent slopes138054491623942142lccqid76120181:24000
Chickenridge-Stoneman-Vadnais complex, 1 to 12 percent slopes138061260816723371t46cid76120181:24000
Hopburn-Vadnais-Rock outcrop complex, 1 to 12 percent slopes1123315228430372szlzid76120181:24000
Crystalbutte-Katseanes-Vadnais complex, 1 to 12 percent slopes13827293924976892pxfjid76120181:24000
Katseanes-Rock outcrop-Vadnais complex, 1 to 12 percent slopes4643610837622t50id76219881:24000
Vadnais-Rock outcrop-Hagenbarth complex, 1 to 12 percent slopes14423413837122t3did76219881:24000
Rock outcrop-Vadnais complex, 1 to 12 percent slopes10423406836732t24id76219881:24000
Vadnais-Chickenridge-Rock outcrop complex, 1 to 12 percent slopes13805870928894392lccqid76219881:24000
Hagenbarth-Vadnais silt loams, 1 to 12 percent slopes325777837482t4kid76219881:24000
Crystalbutte-Vadnais-Katseanes complex, 1 to 30 percent slopes144619837072t37id76219881:24000
Vadnais-Sadorus-Rock outcrop complex, 2 to 8 percent slopes1452894837132t3fid76219881:24000
Vadnais-Rin-Katseanes loams, 2 to 20 percent slopes1432567837112t3cid76219881:24000
Hagenbarth-Vadnais-Katseanes loams, 20 to 50 percent slopes332013837492t4lid76219881:24000
Sadorus-Vadnais-Katseanes loams, 20 to 50 percent slopes1071562836762t27id76219881:24000
Rin-Vadnais loams, 1 to 4 percent slopes981426838172t6sid76219881:24000
Vadnais-Hagenbarth-Katseanes silt loams, 1 to 12 percent slopes1411301837092t39id76219881:24000
Vadnais-Katseanes-Sadorus loams, 2 to 8 percent slopes1421102837102t3bid76219881:24000
Hagenbarth, moist-Vadnais-Katseanes loams, 2 to 20 percent slopes34968837502t4mid76219881:24000
ABLA/CARU,CARU Hopburn-PICO/ARTRV Vadnais-Rock Outcrop complex, 1 to 12 percent slopes16336822184632dghbid76219881:24000
Hopburn-Vadnais-Rock outcrop complex, 1 to 12 percent slopes112333828894612szlzid76219881:24000
PICO/ARTRV Vadnais-Rock Outcrop complex, 1 to 12 percent slopes16122922184612dgh8id76219881:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the VADNAIS 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 .