Soil Data Explorer - BYLER

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the BYLER soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of BYLER, 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 BYLER were used in the calculation. Source: KSSL snapshot (updated 2020-03-18). Methods used to assemble the KSSL snapshot used by SoilWeb / SDE

Pedons used in the lab summary:

MLRA	Lab ID	Pedon ID	Taxonname	CI	NSSL / NASIS Reports	Link To SoilWeb GMap
122	00P0251	1999TN135001	Byler	6	Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties	35.5202789,-87.8399963

Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the BYLER 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 BYLER 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 BYLER 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 BYLER 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 mountains figure.

Competing Series

Soil series competing with BYLER 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 BYLER 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).

There are insufficient data to create the annual climate figure.

Geomorphic description summaries for the BYLER 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.

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

Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with BYLER, 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

Click a link below to display the diagram. Note that these diagrams may be from multiple survey areas.

1. TN-2012-03-16-03 | Cheatham County - 2002

   Relationship of soils to topography and the underlying material in the Byler-Nolin-Armour-Arrington general soil map unit. The Hawthorne and Suphura soils are adjacen to the map unit (Soil Survey of Cheatham County, TN; 2002).

Map Units

Map units containing BYLER 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
Byler silt loam, 2 to 5 percent slopes, eroded	ByB2	2844	527006	kpd6	tn021	1991	1:24000
Byler silt loam, 5 to 12 percent slopes, eroded	ByC2	1302	527007	kpd7	tn021	1991	1:24000
Byler silt loam, 2 to 5 percent slopes	ByB	444	531128	ktp5	tn027	2002	1:24000
Byler silt loam, 2 to 5 percent slopes	ByB	3198	523411	kkn7	tn037	1977	1:15840
Byler silt loam, 2 to 5 percent slopes, eroded	ByB2	1824	527102	kph9	tn043	1993	1:24000
Byler silt loam, 5 to 12 percent slopes, eroded	ByC2	752	527103	kphb	tn043	1993	1:24000
Mercer silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes	McA	2217	527337	kpqw	tn055	1965	1:15840
Mercer silt loam, 2 to 5 percent slopes, eroded	McB2	1987	527339	kpqy	tn055	1965	1:15840
Mercer silt loam, 2 to 5 percent slopes	McB	1146	527338	kpqx	tn055	1965	1:15840
Pickaway silt loam, eroded gently sloping phase	Pc	279	527828	kq7q	tn119	1955	1:20000
Byler silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes	ByA	1658	528212	kqn3	tn149	1974	1:15840
Byler silt loam, 2 to 5 percent slopes	ByB	1276	528213	kqn4	tn149	1974	1:15840
Byler silt loam, 5 to 12 percent slopes, eroded	Pf	341	2396952	2lg71	tn161	1953	1:20000
Byler silt loam, 1 to 4 percent slopes	ByB	5208	528347	kqsg	tn165	1993	1:20000
Byler silt loam, 1 to 4 percent slopes	ByB	1026	530012	ksj5	tn169	1993	1:24000
Byler silt loam, 2 to 5 percent slopes	ByB	5307	528450	kqws	tn189	1988	1:20000
Byler silt loam, 5 to 12 percent slopes, eroded	ByC2	1822	528451	kqwt	tn189	1988	1:20000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the BYLER 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).