Soil Data Explorer - BRIMLEY

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

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

Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with BRIMLEY, 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 BRIMLEY 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
Brimley fine sandy loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes	BtA	504	189133	6bt2	mi011	1964	1:20000
Brimley fine sandy loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes	BtB	224	189134	6bt3	mi011	1964	1:20000
Brimley loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes	BuA	202	189135	6bt4	mi011	1964	1:20000
Brimley loamy fine sand, 0 to 2 percent slopes	BvA	121	189137	6bt6	mi011	1964	1:20000
Brimley loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes	BuB	102	189136	6bt5	mi011	1964	1:20000
Brimley loamy fine sand, 2 to 6 percent slopes	BvB	51	189138	6bt7	mi011	1964	1:20000
Brimley soils, 0 to 6 percent slopes	BwB	453	190411	6d49	mi029	1970	1:15840
Brimley very fine sandy loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes	57A	5777	190601	6dbf	mi031	1988	1:15840
Brimley fine sandy loam, 0 to 4 percent slopes	BtA	3656	1588025	1q9gm	mi041	1969	1:24000
Brimley loam, 0 to 4 percent slopes	BwA	902	189316	6bzz	mi047	1968	1:20000
Bruce-Brimley-Burleigh association	BU	1522	189758	6cg7	mi051	1966	1:15840
Brimley silt loam, 0 to 4 percent slopes	BrB	699	189756	6cg5	mi051	1966	1:15840
Brimley silt loam, 0 to 4 percent slopes	BrB	28	2673534	6cg5	mi111	1976	1:15840
Brimley fine sandy loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes	ByB	150	189997	6cpy	mi133	1966	1:15840
Brimley fine sandy loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes	3244A	764	1474321	1lh4r	wi031	2005	1:12000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the BRIMLEY 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).