Soil Data Explorer - ABELL

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the ABELL soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of ABELL, 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 ABELL were used in the calculation. Source: KSSL snapshot (updated 2020-03-13). 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
136	VPI0205	V1984-VA081-205	Abell	3	Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties	36.8343544,-77.6467743
136	VPI0206	V1984-VA081-206	Abell	3	Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties	36.6009331,-77.7233582

Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the ABELL 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 ABELL series. Sketches are arranged according to their subgroup-level taxonomic structure. Source: SSURGO snapshot (updated 2024-02-21), parsed OSD records (updated 2023-10-02) and snapshot of SC database (updated 2023-10-02).

Select annual climate data summaries for the ABELL 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 ABELL 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 ABELL share the same family level classification in Soil Taxonomy. Source: parsed OSD records (updated 2023-10-02) and snapshot of the SC database (updated 2023-10-02).

Select annual climate data summaries for the ABELL 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 ABELL 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 ABELL, 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 ABELL 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
Abell loam	Ab	651	122777	43rk	al027	1971	1:20000
Abell soils, 2 to 6 percent slopes	AbB	1198	118677	3zh9	va037	1970	1:15840
Abell sandy loam, 2 to 8 percent slopes	65B	578	118926	3zrb	va041	1974	1:15840
Abell loam, 2 to 7 percent slopes	1B	2909	695329	rbjz	va081	1986	1:15840
Abell fine sandy loam, 2 to 7 percent slopes	1B	7020	119087	3zxj	va085	1976	1:15840
Abell fine sandy loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes	AbB	823	119189	400t	va087	1973	1:15840
Abell fine sandy loam, 2 to 7 percent slopes	AbB	4719	119335	405j	va109	1972	1:15840
Abell loam, dark surface variant, 2 to 7 percent slopes	AeB	641	119337	405l	va109	1972	1:15840
Abell silt loam, 2 to 7 percent slopes	AcB	550	119336	405k	va109	1972	1:15840
Abell fine sandy loam, 1 to 6 percent slopes	AaB	2246	119502	40bx	va117	1990	1:24000
Abell fine sandy loam, 2 to 7 percent slopes	1B	9200	120191	4124	va145	1984	1:15840
Abell sandy loam, 2 to 7 percent slopes	1B	7732	120398	418t	va177	1980	1:15840
Abell sandy loam, 2 to 7 percent slopes	1B	10	2376394	2krtw	va630	2008	1:12000
Abell fine sandy loam, 0 to 4 percent slopes	AbB	4058	120669	41kk	va631	1973	1:15840
Abell loam, 0 to 4 percent slopes	AeB	721	120670	41kl	va631	1973	1:15840
Abell sandy loam, 2 to 8 percent slopes	1B	7	139987	4pnq	va760	2004	1:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the ABELL 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).