Soil Data Explorer - CALAMINE

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the CALAMINE soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of CALAMINE, 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 CALAMINE were used in the calculation. Source: KSSL snapshot (updated 2020-03-13). 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
104	X191651	S1959IA191039	Calamine	1	Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties	43.1112415,-91.9241384
105	X22-551-1	S1973IA043006	Calamine	2	Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties	42.8324078,-91.5789283

Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the CALAMINE 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 CALAMINE series. Sketches are arranged according to their subgroup-level taxonomic structure. Source: SSURGO snapshot (updated 2024-02-21), parsed OSD records (updated 2023-10-02) and snapshot of SC database (updated 2023-10-02).

Select annual climate data summaries for the CALAMINE 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 CALAMINE 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 CALAMINE share the same family level classification in Soil Taxonomy. Source: parsed OSD records (updated 2023-10-02) and snapshot of the SC database (updated 2023-10-02).

Select annual climate data summaries for the CALAMINE 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 CALAMINE 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.

Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with CALAMINE, 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 CALAMINE 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
Calamine silty clay loam, 1 to 3 percent slopes	551	1581	403852	fk7h	ia033	1978	1:15840
Calamine loam, 1 to 3 percent slopes	551	320	404290	fkpm	ia043	1979	1:15840
Calamine silty clay loam, 1 to 3 percent slopes	551	795	405798	fm88	ia065	1975	1:15840
Calamine silty clay loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes	551	437	405956	fmfc	ia067	1989	1:15840
Calamine silty clay loam, 1 to 3 percent slopes	551	557	404927	flc5	ia069	1977	1:15840
Calamine silty clay loam, 2 to 5 percent slopes	551B	150	816550	wdpb	ia187	2006	1:12000
Calamine silty clay loam, 5 to 14 percent slopes	551D	125	816551	wdpc	ia187	2006	1:12000
Calamine-Urban land complex, 5 to 14 percent slopes	4551D	52	1612305	1r3qv	ia187	2006	1:12000
Calamine-Urban land complex, 2 to 5 percent slopes	4551B	40	1612303	1r3qs	ia187	2006	1:12000
Calamine-Jacwin complex, 0 to 3 percent slopes	2551	493	766669	tqs8	ia191	2005	1:12000
Bryce, shale substratum-Calamine silty clays, 0 to 2 percent slopes	553A	4058	1590288	1qctm	il063	2005	1:12000
Calamine silt loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes	CaB	1414	424748	g7zk	wi065	1964	1:15840
Calamine silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes	CaA	529	424747	g7zj	wi065	1964	1:15840
Calamine silt loam, 6 to 12 percent slopes, moderately eroded	CaC2	269	424750	g7zm	wi065	1964	1:15840

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the CALAMINE 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).