Soil Data Explorer - AMALIA

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the AMALIA soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of AMALIA, 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 AMALIA 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 AMALIA 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 AMALIA 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 AMALIA 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 AMALIA 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 AMALIA 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 AMALIA 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 AMALIA 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 AMALIA, 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 AMALIA 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
Amalia very gravelly coarse sandy loam, 3 to 9 percent slopes	AmC	8205	1651433	1sfg1	co023	2009	1:24000
Amalia very gravelly coarse sandy loam, 9 to 35 percent slopes	AmE	4658	784454	vb8z	co023	2009	1:24000
Amalia very gravelly loam, 25 to 50 percent slopes	2	5654	498283	jqhn	co637	1986	1:24000
Amalia-Manzano association, 3 to 50 percent slopes	AMF	32071	507799	k1dm	nm670	1976	1:24000
Amalia very gravelly coarse sandy loam, 3 to 9 percent slopes	AmC	10	2886240	2tdhp	nm670	1976	1:24000
Amalia very gravelly coarse sandy loam, 3 to 9 percent slopes	AmC	1030	2721241	2tdhp	nm672		1:24000
Amalia-Earsman families complex, 15 to 35 percent slopes	421	5580	512496	k694	ut646		1:24000
Coyoteflats-Amalia complex, 2 to 8 percent slopes	2215		3170926	2wxkw	wy603		1:24000
Mantlemine-like-Amalia complex, 6 to 25 percent slopes	2312		2911930	2w7k5	wy629		1:24000
Broback, extremely stony-Bronec, very bouldery-Amalia, stony complex, 4 to 25 percent slopes	2415		3209039	2zdq3	wy629		1:24000
Coyoteflats-Amalia complex, 2 to 8 percent slopes	2215		2969045	2wxkw	wy629		1:24000
Coyoteflats-Amalia-Bronec complex, 12 to 40 percent slopes	2418		3206635	2zc4l	wy629		1:24000
Coyoteflats-Amalia-Bronec complex, 12 to 40 percent slopes	2418		3250517	2zc4l	wy656	2008	1:24000
Broback, extremely stony-Bronec, very bouldery-Amalia, stony complex, 4 to 25 percent slopes	2415		3250515	2zdq3	wy656	2008	1:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the AMALIA 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).