Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the BOTTLEHILL soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of BOTTLEHILL, 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 BOTTLEHILL 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
22AUCD670503167-CA-05-031xBottlehill3Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties38.3813788,-120.4195215
22A97P030796CA612028Bottlehill6Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties40.0216667,-121.5359722
22A10N0898S2009BAH004Bottlehill7Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties37.7799988,-120.2044449
22A10N0457S2009BJM052Bottlehill2Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties37.7805557,-120.1991653
22A10N0456S2009SMM014Bottlehill2Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties38.3272209,-120.3936081

Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the BOTTLEHILL 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 BOTTLEHILL 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 BOTTLEHILL 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 BOTTLEHILL 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 hills figure.

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There are insufficient data to create the 3D terrace figure.

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

Competing Series

Soil series competing with BOTTLEHILL 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 BOTTLEHILL series and competing. Series are sorted according to hierarchical clustering of median values. Source: SSURGO map unit geometry and 1981-2010, 800m PRISM data .

There are insufficient data to create the annual climate figure.

Geomorphic description summaries for the BOTTLEHILL 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 .

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 BOTTLEHILL, 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. CA-2012-05-08-04 | Butte Area, Parts of Butte and Plumas Counties - 2006

    Block diagram 3.—This diagram shows the interface of the Northern Sierra Nevada and Southern Cascade Mountains. Volcanic flows moved down the canyon of the West Branch of the Feather River, burying Sierra Nevada rocks, and partially filled the canyon, forming a volcanic plain. Subsequent geologic erosion has cut away the original plain of volcanic rocks and has left remnants surrounded by steep canyons. The area of alluvium shown near the bottom of the diagram is a bar of sediment deposited in the flatter volcanic reach below the steeper metamorphic reach (Soil Survey of Butte Area, California, Parts of Butte and Plumas Counties; 2006).

  2. CA-2012-05-08-05 | Butte Area, Parts of Butte and Plumas Counties - 2006

    Block diagram 4.—This diagram shows the topographic difference between some of the volcanic Cascade and metamorphic Sierra Nevada landforms. Stream channels cut across the grain of the nearly vertically oriented metamorphic Sierra Nevada rocks. The resistance of the metamorphic rocks deflects the stream from side to side, forming an irregular topography. The volcanic flows traveled horizontally and buried the Sierra Nevada rocks, forming a dissected plateau (Soil Survey of Butte Area, California, Parts of Butte and Plumas Counties; 2006).

Map Units

Map units containing BOTTLEHILL 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
Bottlehill-Logtrain-Walkermine , 30 to 50 percent slopes8073486461241hgyrca61220051:24000
Bottlehill-Walkermine-Logtrain , 50 to 70 percent slopes8082950461240hgyqca61220051:24000
Bottlehill-Walkermine-Logtrain , 15 to 30 percent slopes8061740461242hgysca61220051:24000
Logtrain-Bottlehill-Walkermine , 70 to 110 percent slopes7151114461254hgz5ca61220051:24000
Walkermine-Bottlehill-Logtrain-Rock outcrop , 70 to 110 percent slopes8091048461239hgypca61220051:24000
Bottlehill-walkermine-logtrain complex, 3 to 15 percent slopes805509461243hgytca61220051:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the BOTTLEHILL 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 .