Soil Data Explorer - BANISTER

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the BANISTER soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of BANISTER, 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 BANISTER 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 BANISTER 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 BANISTER 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 BANISTER 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 BANISTER 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).

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Competing Series

Soil series competing with BANISTER 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 BANISTER 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).

There are insufficient data to create the annual climate figure.

Geomorphic description summaries for the BANISTER 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 2D hillslope position figure.

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.

There are insufficient data to create the 3D flats position figure.

Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with BANISTER, 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 BANISTER 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
Banister sandy loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes, rarely flooded	BaB	136	2392874	2l9zh	nc003	1988	1:24000
Banister loam, 1 to 6 percent slopes, rarely flooded	BaB	472	116780	3xj3	nc023	2000	1:24000
Banister fine sandy loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes, rarely flooded	BcB	671	2679195	2r91q	nc027	2012	1:12000
Banister loam, 0 to 4 percent slopes, rarely flooded	BaB	715	2973882	2wx12	nc033	2016	1:24000
Banister fine sandy loam, 0 to 6 percent slopes, rarely flooded	BaB	249	2431221	2mlwh	nc035	1969	1:15840
Banister fine sandy loam, 0 to 6 percent slopes, rarely flooded	BaB	411	2679283	2r94h	nc059	1988	1:24000
Banister fine sandy loam, 0 to 6 percent slopes, rarely flooded	BaB	1082	2433471	2mp72	nc067	1970	1:15840
Banister-Wate complex, 2 to 6 percent slopes, rarely flooded	BbB	1869	2424489	2mcwb	nc097	2011	1:12000
Banister-Urban land complex, 0 to 10 percent slopes, rarely flooded	BcB	30	2424493	2mcwg	nc097	2011	1:12000
Banister loam, 0 to 4 percent slopes, rarely flooded	BaB	987	2390305	2l79m	nc157	1983	1:24000
Banister fine sandy loam, 2 to 8 percent slopes, rarely flooded	BaB	2120	2392889	2l9zz	nc169	1992	1:24000
Banister fine sandy loam, 8 to 15 percent slopes	BaC	217	2392890	2lb00	nc169	1992	1:24000
Banister fine sandy loam, 1 to 6 percent slopes, rarely flooded	BaB	600	2392882	2l9zr	nc193	1993	1:24000
Banister fine sandy loam, 0 to 6 percent slopes, rarely flooded	BaB	396	2396686	2lfyg	nc197	1960	1:15840
Banister fine sandy loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, rarely flooded	BaA	149	2396682	2lfyb	nc197	1960	1:15840
Banister fine sandy loam, 6 to 10 percent slopes, rarely flooded	BaC	99	2396688	2lfyj	nc197	1960	1:15840
Banister silt loam, 2 to 7 percent slopes	24B	940	516328	2v7hz	va003	1981	1:15840
Banister fine sandy loam, 2 to 7 percent slopes, rarely flooded	5B	1081	2479351	2p6z2	va029	2010	1:24000
Banister fine sandy loam, 2 to 7 percent slopes, rarely flooded	3B	400	1587393	1q8t7	va049	2005	1:24000
Banister-Kinkora complex, 0 to 4 percent slopes, rarely flooded	2B	3592	1472788	1lfk9	va083	2004	1:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the BANISTER 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).