Soil Data Explorer - BREETON

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

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

Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with BREETON, 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 BREETON 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
Bielenberg-Catgulch, very stony-Breeton complex, 15 to 45 percent slopes	454E	5115	155505	56t9	mt622	1997	1:24000
Breeton coarse sandy loam, 4 to 15 percent slopes	362D	1569	155426	56qr	mt622	1997	1:24000
Breeton-Cometcrik complex, 2 to 8 percent slopes	1803C	1612	150721	51tz	mt627	1998	1:24000
Baxton-Connieo complex, 15 to 35 percent slopes	1245E	1473	150555	51nm	mt627	1998	1:24000
Breeton coarse sandy loam, 4 to 15 percent slopes	1800D	1246	150718	51tw	mt627	1998	1:24000
Clancy-Bielenberg-Breeton complex, 15 to 35 percent slopes	1830E	922	150728	51v6	mt627	1998	1:24000
Breeton-Baxton-Connieo complex, 4 to 15 percent slopes	1802D	818	150720	51ty	mt627	1998	1:24000
Baxton, stony-Breeton, bouldery-Catgulch, very stony, complex, 15 to 35 percent slopes	1246E	535	150556	51nn	mt627	1998	1:24000
Elmark, bouldery-Breeton-Shaboom, bouldery, complex, 15 to 45 percent slopes	1933E	451	150767	51wg	mt627	1998	1:24000
Placerton-Farnuf-Breeton complex, 15 to 35 percent slopes	1273E	311	150569	51p2	mt627	1998	1:24000
Breeton gravelly loam, 2 to 8 percent slopes	1182C	288	150530	51mt	mt627	1998	1:24000
Sixteenmile-Breeton complex, 4 to 15 percent slopes	371D	697	2392810	2l9xf	mt632		1:24000
Bielenberg-Catgulch, very stony-Breeton complex, 15 to 45 percent slopes	173	162	146547	4xhb	mt636	1983	1:24000
Breeton coarse sandy loam, 4 to 15 percent slopes	177	12	146539	4xh2	mt636	1983	1:24000
Sixteenmile-Krakon-Breeton complex, 4 to 15 percent slopes	371D	2295	1383368	1hfhs	mt637	2014	1:24000
Breeton sandy loam, 8 to 15 percent slopes	218D	410	149770	50v9	mt639	2000	1:24000
Breeton sandy loam, 2 to 8 percent slopes	218C	323	149769	50v8	mt639	2000	1:24000
Breeton loam, 2 to 8 percent slopes	290C	313	149861	50y7	mt639	2000	1:24000
Breeton loam, 2 to 8 percent slopes	290C	118	2481355	2p91q	mt669		1:24000
Breeton-Macar complex, 15 to 50 percent slopes, very bouldery	9439		3250433	2zv5n	wy629		1:24000
Breeton-Owenfort, rubbly surface-Burrfoot, rubbly surface, complex, 35 to 70 percent slopes	5707	785	2554726	2rc04	wy635		1:24000
Perma, extremely stony-Breeton fine sandy loams, 5 to 30 percent slopes	983	885	1529218	1nb8m	wy719	2013	1:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the BREETON 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).