Soil Data Explorer - ALDI

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

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

There are insufficient data to create the lab data summary figure.

Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the ALDI 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 ALDI 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 ALDI 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 ALDI 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 flats position figure.

Competing Series

Soil series competing with ALDI 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 ALDI 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 ALDI 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 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 ALDI, 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 ALDI 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
Franktown-Aldi-Rock outcrop complex, 30 to 75 percent slopes	MOG	3255	3233099	2zmrm	ca614	1967	1:24000
Franktown-Aldi-Rock outcrop complex, 2 to 30 percent slopes	MOE	2100	3233097	2zmrl	ca614	1967	1:24000
Aldi-Kyburz-Rock outcrop complex, 30 to 75 percent slopes	KRG	808	3233091	2zmrh	ca614	1967	1:24000
Kyburz-Aldi complex, 2 to 30 percent slopes	KME	207	3233085	2zmrd	ca614	1967	1:24000
Kyburz-Aldi complex, 30 to 50 percent slopes	KMF	186	3233087	2zmrf	ca614	1967	1:24000
Aldi-Kyburz-Rock outcrop complex, 30 to 75 percent slopes	KRG	18491	3233090	2zmrh	ca719	1982	1:24000
Franktown-Aldi-Rock outcrop complex, 30 to 75 percent slopes	MOG	16713	3233098	2zmrm	ca719	1982	1:24000
Kyburz-Aldi complex, 2 to 30 percent slopes	KME	11479	3233084	2zmrd	ca719	1982	1:24000
Kyburz-Aldi complex, 30 to 50 percent slopes	KMF	9701	3233086	2zmrf	ca719	1982	1:24000
Aldi-Kyburz complex, 2 to 30 percent slopes	ARE	9694	464608	hlgc	ca719	1982	1:24000
Franktown-Aldi-Rock outcrop complex, 2 to 30 percent slopes	MOE	3568	3233096	2zmrl	ca719	1982	1:24000
Aldi variant-Kyburz-Jorge variant complex, 2 to 30 percent slopes	CRE	2601	464628	hlh0	ca719	1982	1:24000
Aldi-Aquolls-Kyburz complex, 2 to 9 percent slopes	KPC	2368	464723	hll2	ca719	1982	1:24000
Kyburz-Aldi complex, 30 to 50 percent slopes, eroded	KMF2	1591	464722	hll1	ca719	1982	1:24000
Kyburz-Aldi variant-Jorge variant complex, 2 to 30 percent slopes	XCE	1540	464840	hlpv	ca719	1982	1:24000
Aldi-Kyburz-Rock outcrop comlex, 30 to 75 percent slopes, eroded	KRG2	1093	464728	hll7	ca719	1982	1:24000
Aldi variant-Martis variant-Aquolls complex, 2 to 5 percent slopes	CRB	1026	464627	hlgz	ca719	1982	1:24000
Kyburz-Aldi variant-Jorge variant complex, 30 to 50 percent slopes	XCF	946	464841	hlpw	ca719	1982	1:24000
Aldi variant-Kyburz-Jorge variant complex, 30 to 50 percent slopes	CRF	537	464629	hlh1	ca719	1982	1:24000
Kyburz-Aldi complex, 2 to 30 percent slopes, altered	KME5	440	464720	hlkz	ca719	1982	1:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the ALDI 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).