Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

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

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Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the CLAVERACK 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.

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Sibling Summary

Siblings are those soil series that occur together in map units, in this case with the CLAVERACK series. Sketches are arranged according to their subgroup-level taxonomic structure. Source: SSURGO snapshot , parsed OSD records and snapshot of SC database .

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Select annual climate data summaries for the CLAVERACK series and siblings. Series are sorted according to hierarchical clustering of median values. Source: SSURGO map unit geometry and 1981-2010, 800m PRISM data .

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Geomorphic description summaries for the CLAVERACK 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 .

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Competing Series

Soil series competing with CLAVERACK share the same family level classification in Soil Taxonomy. Source: parsed OSD records and snapshot of the SC database .

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Select annual climate data summaries for the CLAVERACK series and competing. Series are sorted according to hierarchical clustering of median values. Source: SSURGO map unit geometry and 1981-2010, 800m PRISM data .

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Geomorphic description summaries for the CLAVERACK 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 .

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Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with CLAVERACK, 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 .

Block Diagrams

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  1. NY-2010-09-28-25 | Saratoga County - 2004

    Typical relationship of soils and underlying material in the Windsor-Deerfield-Scio general soil map unit. Many areas of this unit are farmed and are easily eroded after cultivation (Soil Survey of Saratoga County, New York; 2004).

  2. OH-2012-02-16-12 | Ashtabula County - May 1973

    Soil pattern in the Conneaut-Swanton-Claverack soil association (Soil Survey of Ashtabula County, Ohio; May 1973).

Map Units

Map units containing CLAVERACK 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
Claverack loamy fine sand, 3 to 8 percent slopesClB4282887139pfbny00119851:15840
Claverack loamy fine sand, 0 to 3 percent slopesClA2612887129pf9ny00119851:15840
Claverack loamy fine sand, 3 to 8 percent slopesCrB17912907819rl1ny02919791:15840
Claverack loamy fine sand, 0 to 3 percent slopesCrA14622907809rl0ny02919791:15840
Urban land-Claverack complexUk3982909129rq8ny02919791:15840
Claverack loamy fine sand, 3 to 8 percent slopesCqB1047316457bm99ny03120071:24000
Claverack loamy fine sand, 0 to 3 percent slopesCqA240316456bm98ny03120071:24000
Claverack loamy fine sand, 3 to 8 percent slopesCmB22562917999smwny04519811:15840
Claverack loamy fine sand, 0 to 3 percent slopesCmA4362917989smvny04519811:15840
Claverack loamy fine sand, 2 to 6 percent slopesCkB56702926799tk8ny05519671:15840
Claverack loamy fine sand, 0 to 2 percent slopesCkA36862926789tk7ny05519671:15840
Claverack loamy fine sand, 6 to 12 percent slopesCkC4292926809tk9ny05519671:15840
Claverack loamy fine sand, 3 to 8 percent slopesClB1222928069tpcny05719731:24000
Claverack loamy fine sand, 0 to 6 percent slopesClB24142940179vyfny07319731:15840
Claverack loamy fine sand, 3 to 8 percent slopesClB31572943689w9rny09119931:24000
Claverack loamy fine sand, 0 to 3 percent slopesClA8772943679w9qny09119931:24000
Claverack loamy fine sand, 3 to 8 percent slopesClB159309560bd3tny09319731:15840
Claverack loamy fine sand, 0 to 3 percent slopesClA125309559bd3sny09319731:15840
Claverack loamy fine sand, 2 to 6 percent slopesCkB13062946999wnfny09919661:15840
Claverack loamy fine sand, 0 to 2 percent slopesCkA9422946989wndny09919661:15840
Claverack loamy fine sand, 2 to 6 percent slopesClB10472959569xyzny11519721:20000
Claverack loamy fine sand, 0 to 2 percent slopesClA9492959559xyyny11519721:20000
Claverack loamy fine sand, 2 to 6 percent slopesCmB27022929839tw2ny66419681:15840
Claverack loamy fine sand, 0 to 2 percent slopesCmA21762929829tw1ny66419681:15840

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the CLAVERACK 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 .