Soil Data Explorer - ARBIDGE

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the ARBIDGE soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of ARBIDGE, 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 ARBIDGE 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 ARBIDGE 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 ARBIDGE 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 ARBIDGE 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 ARBIDGE 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 ARBIDGE 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 ARBIDGE 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 ARBIDGE 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 ARBIDGE, 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 ARBIDGE 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
Bedstead-Arbidge association, 2 to 15 percent slopes	15	82664	485993	j9q6	id675	1992	1:24000
Arbidge-Hunnton silt loams, 1 to 8 percent slopes	7	70298	486252	j9zk	id675	1992	1:24000
Arbidge-Buncelvoir-Chilcott complex, 2 to 6 percent slopes	4	45707	486186	j9xf	id675	1992	1:24000
Arbidge-Owsel-Gariper complex, 1 to 15 percent slopes	9	40598	486292	jb0v	id675	1992	1:24000
Bruncan-Arbidge complex, 1 to 8 percent slopes	26	36016	486158	j9wj	id675	1992	1:24000
Arbidge-Chilcott silt loams, 1 to 8 percent slopes	5	29318	486208	j9y4	id675	1992	1:24000
Arbidge-Laped-Slickspots complex, 0 to 8 percent slopes	8	20433	486271	jb05	id675	1992	1:24000
Arbidge-Heckison association, 2 to 15 percent slopes	6	11398	486230	j9yv	id675	1992	1:24000
Troughs-Arbidge association, 2 to 12 percent slopes	179	7648	486059	j9sb	id675	1992	1:24000
Hardtrigger-Arbidge complex, 2 to 12 percent slopes	68	5556	486248	j9zf	id675	1992	1:24000
Bedstead-Arbidge association, 2 to 15 percent slopes	1	909	484825	j8hj	id677	1984	1:24000
Arbidge-Buko complex, 1 to 8 percent slopes	5	19012	2519573	2r0p	id685	2012	1:24000
Arbidge fine sandy loam, 1 to 4 percent slopes	4	1457	2519562	2r0b	id685	2012	1:24000
Windypoint-Arbidge complex, 1 to 4 percent slopes	145	10048	80212	2pgh	id704	1992	1:24000
Arbidge sandy loam, 1 to 4 percent slopes	7	9683	80277	2pjl	id704	1992	1:24000
Arbidge-Laped-Slick spots complex, 0 to 8 percent slopes	1690	723	2403544	260k8	nv764	2021	1:24000
Arbidge sandy loam, 0 to 8 percent slopes	5023	2325	2722284	2sf3l	or645		1:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the ARBIDGE 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).