Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the BIRNEY soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of BIRNEY, 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 BIRNEY were used in the calculation. Source: KSSL snapshot . Methods used to assemble the KSSL snapshot used by SoilWeb / SDE

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Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the BIRNEY 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 BIRNEY 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 BIRNEY 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 BIRNEY 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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Competing Series

Soil series competing with BIRNEY 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 BIRNEY 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 BIRNEY 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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Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with BIRNEY, 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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Map Units

Map units containing BIRNEY 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
Yamacall-Birney-Delpoint complex, 4 to 15 percent slopes891D6622343728cjp0mt01719951:24000
Yamacall-Birney-Delpoint complex, 15 to 25 percent slopes799E5254343687cjmpmt01719951:24000
Yamacall-Birney-Cabbart complex, 15 to 25 percent slopes953E67343786cjqwmt01719951:24000
Birney, moist-Armells-Cabbart complex, 25 to 70 percent slopes841F433437022yk04mt01719951:24000
Birney-Cooers-Kirby complex, 2 to 15 percent slopes913D24343741cjpfmt01719951:24000
Yamacall-Birney complex, 8 to 15 percent slopes952D17343784cjqtmt01719951:24000
Rencot-Rock outcrop-Birney complex, very stony, 15 to 45 percent slopes14E6311476514ymymt60919711:24000
Birney loam, 2 to 8 percent slopes28C56915537656p4mt62219971:24000
Busby-Birney complex, 0 to 4 percent slopes727B3401556885706mt62219971:24000
Busby-Birney complex, 4 to 15 percent slopes727D2561556895707mt62219971:24000
Birney channery loam, 8 to 15 percent slopes128D14715529256lfmt62219971:24000
Yawdim-Birney-Rock outcrop complex, 15 to 60 percent slopes167F464914969850rzmt63920001:24000
Birney, moist-Armells-Cabbart complex, 25 to 70 percent slopes21615913480422yk04mt64919851:24000
Yamac-Birney-Cabbart complex, 15 to 25 percent slopes20427619348036cp4zmt64919851:24000
Birney-Kirby channery loams, 4 to 25 percent slopes1918627348019cp4fmt64919851:24000
Yamac-Birney complex, 8 to 15 percent slopes20210824348034cp4xmt64919851:24000
Birney-Cooers-Kirby complex, 2 to 15 percent slopes189484348008cp42mt64919851:24000
Birney, moist-Birney-Kirby channery loams, 15 to 25 percent slopes229350348051cp5gmt64919851:24000
Yamac-Birney complex, 15 to 25 percent slopes2036717348035cp4ymt64919851:24000
Birney-Kirby-Cabbart complex, 15 to 25 percent slopes206707348031cp4tmt64919851:24000
Yamac-Birney complex, 2 to 8 percent slopes2015916348033cp4wmt64919851:24000
Birney-Cabbart complex, moist, 25 to 70 percent slopes175708347997cp3qmt64919851:24000
Cooers-Birney complex, 2 to 8 percent slopes655016348098cp6zmt64919851:24000
Birney channery loam, 15 to 25 percent slopes164787347986cp3cmt64919851:24000
Spang, moist-Birney, moist-Birney complex, 8 to 25 percent slopes1703102347998cp3rmt64919851:24000
Spang-Birney complex, 8 to 15 percent slopes1693068347996cp3pmt64919851:24000
Birney-Yawdim-Rock outcrop association, steep1537580348144cp8gmt65519751:24000
Yawdim-Birney-Rock outcrop complex, 15 to 60 percent slopes167F468361419d42pmt65519751:24000
Birney, stony-Bondoe-Carfall complex, 1 to 50 percent slopes9C01335665130z8fwy6171:24000
Colstrip-Birney-Fishers-like complex, 4 to 15 percent slopes523432030912zbsqwy6291:24000
Birney-Bronec-Rock outcrop complex, 30 to 70 percent slopes460831709872z20lwy6291:24000
Sonnett, stony-Birney-Pachel complex, 20 to 60 percent slopes558232030632zbrtwy6291:24000
Birney, stony-Geohrock-Shermap-like, complex 10 to 40 percent slopes945132030652zbrwwy6291:24000
Shermap-Derrick-like-Birney, stony complex, 10 to 60 percent slopes558332030852zbsjwy6291:24000
Bronec-like-Coyoteflats-like-Birney complex, 6 to 40 percent slopes940932066422zc4twy6291:24000
Birney-Foy complex, 12 to 25 percent slopes242532066922zc6lwy6291:24000
Twinadams-like, stony-Coyoteflats, very stony-Birney, very bouldery complex, 20 to 60 percent slopes241732090402zdq4wy6291:24000
Hangmans, stony-Spudbar, very bouldery-Birney complex, 15 to 35 percent slopes440832090542zdqlwy6291:24000
Bronec, extremely stony-Birney complex, 6 to 15 percent slopes234832504532zv69wy6291:24000
Birney, stony-Rock outcrop complex, 35 to 70 percent slopes450632504612zv6kwy6291:24000
Birney, stony-Pachel-Evanston complex, 6 to 25 percent slopes931832504632zv6mwy6291:24000
Birney-Hawksell complex, 1 to 8 percent slopes819461229250382wdgrwy6301:24000
Twinadams-like, stony-Coyoteflats, very stony-Birney, very bouldery complex, 20 to 60 percent slopes241732505162zdq4wy65620081:24000
Birney-Foy complex, 12 to 25 percent slopes242532505442zc6lwy65620081:24000
Yawdim-Hangmans-Birney family, complex, 20 to 60 percent slopes4231322244330j6pwy7371:24000
Hangmans-Birney-Hawksell families, complex, 8 to 15 percent slopes411232223312ztm3wy7371:24000
Gompers-Delpoint family-Birney family, complex, 20 to 35 percent slopes411732225012ztmcwy7371:24000
Hawksell-Moyerson-Birney family, complex, 1 to 15 percent slopes4241322251330j70wy7371:24000
Chickenhill-Yamacall-Birney family, complex, 2 to 15 percent slopes412432225082ztmlwy7371:24000
Roto-Birney-Elvor complex, 10 to 30 percent slopes -- draft370174826119982sbnywy7371:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the BIRNEY 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 .