Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the ALGANSEE soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of ALGANSEE, 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 ALGANSEE 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
98SR77061977IN149006Algansee3Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties41.3320806,-86.7005833

Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the ALGANSEE 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 ALGANSEE 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 ALGANSEE 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 ALGANSEE 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 mountains figure.

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Competing Series

Soil series competing with ALGANSEE 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 ALGANSEE 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 ALGANSEE 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 ALGANSEE, 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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  1. WI-2010-11-08-07 | Pepin County - 2002

    Typical pattern of soils and parent material in the Finchford-Plainfield-Burkhardt and Algansee-Kalmarville-Scotah associations (Soil Survey of Pepin County, Wisconsin; 2002).

Map Units

Map units containing ALGANSEE 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
Algansee-Kalmarville complex, river valleys, 0 to 3 percent slopes, frequently flooded1657A70231823772yt2kia04519781:15840
Algansee-Kalmarville complex, river valleys, 0 to 3 percent slopes, frequently flooded1658A29467965692yt2kil01520051:12000
Algansee-Kalmarville complex, river valleys, 0 to 3 percent slopes, frequently flooded1658A587619496812yt2kil08519901:12000
Algansee-Kalmarville complex, river valleys, 0 to 3 percent slopes, frequently flooded1658A30531822232yt2kil19520031:12000
Algansee loamy sand, frequently floodedAh10161625575g4sin04919841:15840
Algansee loamy sand, frequently flooded, undrainedAp4901634895h3vin11119901:15840
Algansee fine sandy loam, occasionally floodedAn29431626055g6bin14919801:15840
Algansee variant sand, occasionally floodedAs10851626065g6cin14919801:15840
Algansee loamy sand, protected, 0 to 3 percent slopes73A2674212490743jmi00519841:15840
Algansee loamy fine sand55148618610567ndmi01519881:15840
Algansee fine sand, occasionally flooded619711887186bcpmi02519931:15840
Algansee sandy loamAh40118786669h6mi06719651:15840
Algansee loamAe17418786469h4mi06719651:15840
Algansee loamy sandAg15818786569h5mi06719651:15840
Algansee loamy sand479861865586840mi07319831:15840
Algansee loamy fine sand5385918716168rgmi08119841:15840
Algansee sandy loamAn5211919706frlmi08719661:15840
Algansee loamy sand, 0 to 3 percent slopes31A141918773769c1mi10719821:15840
Algansee loamy fine sand823657186510682gmi12319901:15840
Abscota loamy sand, 0 to 3 percent slopes95A967186520682smi12319901:15840
Algansee loamy fine sand, occasionally flooded692531890776br8mi12719921:15840
Algansee loamAg6451899776cp9mi13319661:15840
Algansee sandAe3771899766cp8mi13319661:15840
Algansee loamy sandAk6921926306gfwmi13919671:15840
Algansee sandy loamAh18518776569cymi15519671:12000
Algansee-Cohoctah complex661125818634567x4mi15919841:15840
Glendora-Algansee-Abscota complex, 0 to 3 percent slopes, frequently flooded130A1604631193p5t2mi61420051:12000
Algansee sandy loam, occasionally flooded18211079396793f9wsmn03719801:15840
Algansee-Kalmarville complex, river valleys, 0 to 3 percent slopes, frequently flooded1658A5918603512yt2kmn04920071:12000
Algansee loamy sand182136416773011t9chmn12319781:15840
Algansee-Kalmarville complex, river valleys, 0 to 3 percent slopes, frequently flooded1658A127019468852yt2kmn15720081:12000
Algansee loamy sand1821104116771661t974mn16319781:15840
Algansee fine sand, occasionally floodedAg2891703825q96oh12319811:15840
Algansee loamy sand, 0 to 3 percent slopesAlA262422918g62jwi00119781:20000
Algansee-Kalmarville complex, river valleys, 0 to 3 percent slopes, frequently flooded1658A1835826394762yt2kwi01119601:12000
Algansee-Kalmarville complex, river valleys, 0 to 3 percent slopes, frequently flooded1658A1201724982032yt2kwi02319601:12000
Algansee-Kalmarville complex, river valleys, 0 to 3 percent slopes, frequently flooded1658A85831820722yt2kwi02519721:15840
Algansee-Kalmarville complex, river valleys, 0 to 3 percent slopes, frequently flooded1658A802624982042yt2kwi03320031:12000
Algansee-Kalmarville complex, river valleys, 0 to 3 percent slopes, frequently flooded1658A295730997342yt2kwi03519741:12000
Algansee-Kalmarville complex, river valleys, 0 to 3 percent slopes, frequently flooded1658A1342927747662yt2kwi04319591:20000
Algansee-Kalmarville complex, river valleys, 0 to 3 percent slopes, frequently flooded1658A691628066612yt2kwi04919601:20000
Algansee-Kalmarville complex, river valleys, 0 to 3 percent slopes, frequently flooded1658A620825058862yt2kwi05319941:12000
Algansee-Kalmarville complex, river valleys, 0 to 3 percent slopes, frequently flooded1658A1506624982052yt2kwi06320011:12000
Algansee-Kalmarville complex, river valleys, 0 to 3 percent slopes, frequently flooded1658A39126851602yt2kwi08119811:12000
Algansee-Kalmarville complex, river valleys, 0 to 3 percent slopes, frequently flooded1658A613224982072yt2kwi09119981:12000
Algansee-Kalmarville complex, river valleys, 0 to 3 percent slopes, frequently flooded1658A297116910082yt2kwi09320061:12000
Algansee-Kalmarville complex, river valleys, 0 to 3 percent slopes, frequently flooded1658A278224982082yt2kwi10320021:12000
Algansee-Kalmarville complex, river valleys, 0 to 3 percent slopes, frequently flooded1658A886431820942yt2kwi11119771:15840
Algansee-Kalmarville complex, river valleys, 0 to 3 percent slopes, frequently flooded1658A386826394982yt2kwi12119691:12000
Algansee-Kalmarville complex, river valleys, 0 to 3 percent slopes, frequently flooded1658A248024982092yt2kwi12319651:12000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the ALGANSEE 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 .