Soil Data Explorer - BRILEY

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

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

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

Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with BRILEY, 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 BRILEY 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
Briley loamy fine sand, 3 to 8 percent slopes	11	8464	565346	2xz25	ar027	1983	1:20000
Briley loamy fine sand, 1 to 3 percent slopes	10	1519	565345	lz8y	ar027	1983	1:20000
Briley loamy fine sand, 3 to 8 percent slopes	4	10183	565666	2xz25	ar057	1976	1:20000
Briley-Alaga association, rolling	5	7233	565677	lzmn	ar057	1976	1:20000
Briley loamy fine sand, 1 to 8 percent slopes	BrC	1840	721484	s6rp	ar099	2000	1:24000
Briley loamy fine sand, 1 to 8 percent slopes	BrC	3412	579197	mfps	ar139	1992	1:24000
Briley loamy fine sand, 8 to 12 percent slopes	4	2202	564689	2xz26	ar620	1977	1:20000
Briley loamy fine sand, 3 to 8 percent slopes	3	1801	564685	2xz25	ar620	1977	1:20000
Briley loamy fine sand, 3 to 8 percent slopes	12	2709	564884	lyt2	ar670	1981	1:20000
Briley loamy fine sand, 8 to 12 percent slopes	13	2371	564885	2xz26	ar670	1981	1:20000
Briley loamy fine sand, 1 to 3 percent slopes	11	647	564883	lyt1	ar670	1981	1:20000
Briley loamy fine sand, 5 to 12 percent slopes	BRE	21782	1724566	2tcns	la013	1992	1:24000
Briley loamy fine sand, 1 to 5 percent slopes	BrC	17432	1724575	2tcnt	la013	1992	1:24000
Briley loamy fine sand, 1 to 5 percent slopes	BrC	1076	571035	2tcnt	la015	2005	1:24000
Briley loamy fine sand, 5 to 12 percent slopes	BrE	918	571036	2tcns	la015	2005	1:24000
Briley loamy fine sand, 1 to 5 percent slopes	BrC	2759	2805700	2tcnt	la017	2013	1:24000
Briley loamy fine sand, 5 to 12 percent slopes	BrE	1248	2805701	2tcns	la017	2013	1:24000
Smithdale-Briley(lucy)-Providence association, 5 to 25 percent slopes	SR	13794	1722422	1vtb0	la025	1983	1:24000
Alaga-Smithdale-Briley(lucy) association, 5 to 40 percent slopes	AA	3249	1722375	1vt8h	la025	1983	1:24000
Briley loamy fine sand, 5 to 12 percent slopes	Br	1087	1527452	2tcns	la043	1982	1:24000
Briley loamy fine sand, 5 to 12 percent slopes	BRE	19618	1725250	2tcns	la049	1991	1:24000
Briley loamy fine sand, 1 to 5 percent slopes	BrC	3596	1725254	2tcnt	la049	1991	1:24000
Briley loamy fine sand, 1 to 5 percent slopes	BrC	13390	571114	2tcnt	la061	1991	1:24000
Briley loamy fine sand, 1 to 5 percent slopes	Br	9316	1903096	2tcnt	la069	1983	1:24000
Briley loamy fine sand, 5 to 12 percent slopes	Bt	5262	1903097	2tcns	la069	1983	1:24000
Briley loamy fine sand, 12 to 20 percent slopes	By	793	1903098	21wb8	la069	1983	1:24000
Briley (lucy) loamy fine sand, 3 to 8 percent slopes	LuC	4006	569967	m431	la079	1973	1:24000
Briley loamy fine sand, 1 to 5 percent slopes	BrC	8	2403694	2tcnt	la079	1973	1:24000
Briley loamy fine sand, 1 to 5 percent slopes	ByC	7277	1903027	2tcnt	la085	1991	1:24000
Briley loamy fine sand, 5 to 12 percent slopes	BYE	3852	1903022	2tcns	la085	1991	1:24000
Briley loamy fine sand, 1 to 5 percent slopes	Br	1906	1725327	2tcnt	la111	1992	1:24000
Briley loamy fine sand, 1 to 5 percent slopes	BrC	29476	1725538	2tcnt	la115	1992	1:24000
Briley loamy fine sand, 5 to 12 percent slopes	BRE	22772	1725530	2tcns	la115	1992	1:24000
Briley loamy fine sand, 3 to 8 percent slopes	Re	8147	575365	30n24	tx073	1949	1:20000
Briley loamy fine sand, 1 to 3 percent slopes	Rd	2964	575364	30n23	tx073	1949	1:20000
Briley loamy fine sand	Lu	1070	575597	m9yn	tx339	1967	1:20000
Briley loamy fine sand, 1 to 8 percent slopes	14	8730	575622	30n25	tx347	1976	1:24000
Briley loamy fine sand, 1 to 5 percent slopes	Lu	1736	575697	2tcnt	tx365	1971	1:20000
Briley loamy fine sand, 1 to 5 percent slopes	ByC	3218	575790	2tcnt	tx423	1987	1:24000
Briley loamy fine sand, 1 to 5 percent slopes	ByC	2593	576041	2tcnt	tx499	1993	1:24000
Briley loamy fine sand, 1 to 5 percent slopes	ByC	2640	576087	2tcnt	tx603	1984	1:24000
Briley loamy fine sand, 1 to 5 percent slopes	ByC	8775	576141	2tcnt	tx608	1981	1:24000
Briley loamy fine sand, 1 to 5 percent slopes	BrB	20250	576510	2tcnt	tx616	2004	1:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the BRILEY 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).