Soil Data Explorer - ALMY

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the ALMY soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of ALMY, 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 ALMY were used in the calculation. Source: KSSL snapshot (updated 2020-03-13). 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 ALMY 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 ALMY 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 ALMY 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 ALMY 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).

Competing Series

Soil series competing with ALMY 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 ALMY 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 ALMY 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).

Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with ALMY, 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 ALMY 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
Almy sandy loam, 12 to 25 percent slopes	86E	512	506934	k0hq	co648		1:24000
Almy loam, 1 to 12 percent slopes	6	9313	498002	jq6l	co655	1984	1:24000
Almy loam, 12 to 25 percent slopes	7	3081	498013	jq6y	co655	1984	1:24000
Almy sandy loam, 12 to 25 percent slopes	86E	157	3106902	k0hq	co655	1984	1:24000
Almy variant loam, 25 to 65 percent slopes	1	2000	496748	jnx4	co683	1977	1:24000
Almy loam, 3 to 15 percent slopes	4	3464	512280	k625	co686	1992	1:31680
Almy loam, 0 to 8 percent slopes	105	15005	501622	jtzc	wy601	1991	1:24000
Almy-Tismid association, 0 to 8 percent slopes	107	5083	501625	jtzg	wy601	1991	1:24000
Almy-Urban land complex, 0 to 3 percent slopes	106	639	501624	jtzf	wy601	1991	1:24000
Almy loam, 3 to 15 percent slopes	107	1097	502185	jvkj	wy625	1985	1:24000
Sinkson-Almy-Thermopolis loams, 2 to 30 percent slopes	415	109	1683083	1thd0	wy647		1:24000
Sinkson-Almy-Thermopolis association, 2 to 30 percent slopes	208D	655	157934	59bn	wy656	2008	1:24000
Almy loam, 0 to 6 percent slopes	104D	136	157950	59c5	wy656	2008	1:24000
Almy-Monbutte-Rallod complex, 1 to 10 percent slopes	63	2	1901546	21tq6	wy677	1975	1:24000
Almy-Monbutte-Rallod complex, 1 to 10 percent slopes	105	27107	502965	jwcp	wy713	1986	1:24000
Sinkson-Almy-Thermopolis association, rolling	208	10870	503083	jwhh	wy713	1986	1:24000
Almy loam, 0 to 6 percent slopes	104	4343	502963	jwcm	wy713	1986	1:24000
Sinkson-Almy sandy clay loams, 0 to 6 percent slopes	207	3888	503082	jwhg	wy713	1986	1:24000
Almy fine sandy loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes -- draft	508	2095	2572281	jx1j	wy737		1:24000
Almy-Tisworth fine sandy loams, 3 to 10 percent slopes -- draft	503	856	2572279	jx1f	wy737		1:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the ALMY 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).