Soil Data Explorer - CHINWHISKER

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the CHINWHISKER soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of CHINWHISKER, 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 CHINWHISKER 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 CHINWHISKER 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 CHINWHISKER 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 CHINWHISKER 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 CHINWHISKER 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 CHINWHISKER 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 CHINWHISKER 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 CHINWHISKER 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 CHINWHISKER, 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. MI-2010-09-07-24 | Montmorency County - 2003

   Typical pattern of soils and underlying material in the Deford-Au Gres-Croswell association (Soil Survey of Montmorency County, Michigan; 2003).

2. MI-2012-02-06-04 | Alcona County - 1998

   Typical pattern of soils and parent material in the Klacking-McGinn association (adjacent to the Lupton-Tawas-Leafriver association) (Soil Survey of Alcona County, Michigan; 1998).

Map Units

Map units containing CHINWHISKER 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
Chinwhisker sand, 0 to 4 percent slopes	90B	5766	190381	6d3b	mi001	1993	1:20000
Chinwhisker sand, 0 to 4 percent slopes	90B	2553	191311	6f2b	mi007	1998	1:12000
Chinwhisker sand, 0 to 4 percent slopes	CnwaaB	168	3155893	2ythw	mi009	1976	1:15840
Chinwhisker sand, 0 to 4 percent slopes	90B	4252	192344	6g4n	mi119	1997	1:12000
Chinwhisker sand, 0 to 4 percent slopes	90B	691	241412	836h	mi135	2003	1:12000
Chinwisker sand, 0 to 4 percent slopes	90B	544	191538	6f9n	mi137	1998	1:12000
Chinwhisker sand, 0 to 4 percent slopes	90B	2848	190993	6dr2	mi143	1999	1:12000
Croswell-Chinwhisker complex, 0 to 3 percent slopes	591A	1470	1444453	1kh28	wi003	2006	1:12000
Croswell-Chinwhisker complex, 0 to 3 percent slopes	591A	1676	1147409	17hz6	wi007	2005	1:12000
Croswell-Chinwhisker complex, 0 to 3 percent slopes	591A	202	1149640	17l95	wi031	2005	1:12000
Croswell-Chinwhisker complex, 0 to 3 percent slopes	591A	4033	1701242	1v38s	wi051	2006	1:12000
Croswell-Chinwhisker complex, 0 to 3 percent slopes	591A	4501	1292270	1dcq4	wi099	2006	1:12000
Croswell-Chinwhisker complex, 0 to 3 percent slopes	591A	15	1145157	17fmk	wi107	2006	1:12000
Croswell-Chinwhisker complex, 0 to 3 percent slopes	591A	4881	1017815	1353r	wi113	2006	1:12000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the CHINWHISKER 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).