Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the AMIRET soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of AMIRET, 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 AMIRET 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
103UMN1314S1971MN0831314Amiret5Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties44.589138,-95.7842331
103UMN1625S1973MN0331625Amiret3Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties44.0904961,-94.8792877
103UMN1626S1973MN0331626Amiret3Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties44.0868263,-94.8790054
103UMN1646S1973MN1271646Amiret3Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties44.4637299,-95.2511292
103UMN1648S1973MN1271648Amiret3Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties44.4150543,-95.4728928
103UMN1767S1974MN1731767Amiret3Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties44.7029686,-96.0082855
103UMN2315S1976MN1272315Amiret2Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties44.4699402,-95.0818863
103UMN2299S1976MN1732299Amiret2Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties44.879261,-95.7878113
103UMN2302S1976MN1732302Amiret3Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties44.5429993,-95.594101
103UMN2716S1978MN015020 (2716)Amiret2Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties44.2532806,-94.9760132
103UMN2794S1978MN067147 (2794)Amiret3Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties45.0065804,-95.160553
103UMN3220S1979MN015008 (3220)Amiret2Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties44.2964325,-94.8468857
103UMN3280S1980MN1273280Amiret2Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties44.2448502,-95.3269196
103UMN4605S1991MN073001 (4605)Amiret3Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties44.9734802,-96.2518387
103UMN4606S1991MN073002 (4606)Amiret3Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties44.8056679,-96.1537094

Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the AMIRET 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 AMIRET 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 AMIRET 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 AMIRET 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 AMIRET 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 AMIRET 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 AMIRET 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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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.

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Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with AMIRET, 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. MN-2010-09-08-35 | Renville County - 1999

    Typical pattern of soils and parent material in the Amiret-Leen-Crooksford association (Soil Survey of Renville County, Minnesota; 1999).

Map Units

Map units containing AMIRET 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
Amiret-Swanlake loams, 2 to 6 percent slopesL223B1184928772712t3nkmn01519841:20000
Amiret loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes421B100733962912tmsbmn01519841:20000
Amiret loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes421B70403965142tmsbmn02319801:15840
Amiret loam, 2 to 6 percent slopesL218B772215299312tmsbmn03320081:12000
Amiret-Swanlake loams, 2 to 6 percent slopesL223B94915902402t3nkmn03320081:12000
Amiret-Swanlake-Round Lake complex, 2 to 6 percent slopesL211B42816910901trq9mn03320081:12000
Amiret-Swanlake loams, 2 to 6 percent slopesL223B1858228772702t3nkmn06719831:20000
Amiret-Swanlake loams, 2 to 6 percent slopes954B367214303652t3nkmn07319941:20000
Amiret loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes421B154194303102tmsbmn07319941:20000
Amiret loam, 2 to 6 percent slopesL218B57616931822tmsbmn08120071:12000
Amiret-Round Lake-Swanlake complex, 2 to 6 percent slopesL211B3315446311nv9tmn08120071:12000
Amiret-Swanlake loams, 2 to 6 percent slopesL223B1616931832t3nkmn08120071:12000
Amiret loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes421B3100818590422tmsbmn08320081:12000
Amiret-Swanlake loams, 2 to 6 percent slopes421B22287718590432t3nkmn08320081:12000
Amiret loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes421B5949023740372tmsbmn12720081:12000
Amiret-Swanlake loams, 2 to 6 percent slopesL223B4730528772722t3nkmn12720081:12000
Amiret-Swanlake loams, 2 to 6 percent slopes1355B343744360242t3nkmn12919951:20000
Amiret loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes1370B46924360292tmsbmn12919951:20000
Amiret-Swanlake-Hawick complex, 2 to 6 percent slopes1386B1704436036gmqpmn12919951:20000
Amiret loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes421B40194289492tmsbmn16519871:20000
Amiret-Swanlake loams, 2 to 6 percent slopes954B225164289742t3nkmn16519871:20000
Amiret-Swanlake loams, 2 to 6 percent slopes954B27062616536422t3nkmn17319791:20000
Amiret loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes421B5646516536252tmsbmn17319791:20000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the AMIRET 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 .