Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

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

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Pedons used in the lab summary:

MLRALab IDPedon IDTaxonnameCINSSL / NASIS ReportsLink To SoilWeb GMap
130B01N057401NC087007Clifton7Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties35.4392704,-83.0773751
130B01N057101NC173001Clifton7Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties35.5134358,-83.3079376
130B88P017287NC121003AClifton6Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties36.0366669,-82.2655563
130B87P082287NC121006Clifton7Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties36.023056,-82.207222
130B87P082487NC199002Clifton7Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties35.9208336,-82.4291687
130B87P082587NC199002AClifton7Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties35.9208336,-82.4291687
130B88P087188NC199004Clifton7Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties35.8388901,-82.1875
130B00P023499NC173003Clifton7Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties35.5139914,-83.3079376

Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the CLIFTON 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 CLIFTON 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 CLIFTON 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 CLIFTON 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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There are insufficient data to create the 3D terrace figure.

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

Competing Series

Soil series competing with CLIFTON 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 CLIFTON 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 CLIFTON 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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There are insufficient data to create the 3D flats position figure.

Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with CLIFTON, 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

No block diagrams are available.

Map Units

Map units containing CLIFTON 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
Clifton-Davidson stony complex, 25 to 60 percent slopesCLF72512446645j1ga13719601:20000
Clifton-Davidson complex, 25 to 60 percent slopesCKF45012446445hzga13719601:20000
Clifton-Davidson stony complex, 60 to 90 percent slopesCLG28512446745j2ga13719601:20000
Clifton-Davidson complex, 15 to 25 percent slopesCKE19012446345hyga13719601:20000
Clifton-Davidson stony complex, 15 to 25 percent slopesCLE11512446545j0ga13719601:20000
Clifton-Evard complex, 10 to 25 percent slopesClE811655317612vx4mga63719901:20000
Clifton-Evard complex, 6 to 10 percent slopesClC106505317602vx4nga63719901:20000
Urban land-Evard-Clifton complex, 10 to 35 percent slopesUeE560531792kvclga63719901:20000
Clifton stony loam, 15 to 45 percent slopesCsF2800545908lb1ync00519671:15840
Clifton loam, 10 to 25 percent slopesCmE2068545906lb1wnc00519671:15840
Clifton loam, 6 to 10 percent slopesCmC721545905lb1vnc00519671:15840
Clifton loam, 25 to 45 percent slopesCmF662545907lb1xnc00519671:15840
Clifton loam, 8 to 15 percent slopesCfD7411545944lb33nc00919821:24000
Clifton loam, 15 to 25 percent slopesCfE5484545945lb34nc00919821:24000
Clifton loam, 2 to 8 percent slopesCfB486545943lb32nc00919821:24000
Clifton clay loam, 8 to 15 percent slopes, moderately erodedCkC21989816719871t3v2nc02120061:12000
Clifton clay loam, 15 to 30 percent slopes, moderately erodedCkD21670516719841t3tznc02120061:12000
Clifton-Urban land complex, 8 to 15 percent slopesCuC610816719931t3v8nc02120061:12000
Clifton-Urban land complex, 15 to 30 percent slopesCuD349816719911t3v6nc02120061:12000
Clifton sandy loam, 8 to 15 percent slopesCsC275716719901t3v5nc02120061:12000
Clifton clay loam, 2 to 8 percent slopes, moderately erodedCkB2227916719851t3v0nc02120061:12000
Clifton-Urban land complex, 2 to 8 percent slopesCuB224516719921t3v7nc02120061:12000
Clifton sandy loam, 15 to 30 percent slopesCsD220116719881t3v3nc02120061:12000
Clifton clay loam, 30 to 50 percent slopes, moderately erodedCkE2201316719861t3v1nc02120061:12000
Clifton sandy loam, 2 to 8 percent slopesCsB92416719891t3v4nc02120061:12000
Clifton clay loam, 15 to 30 percent slopes, moderately erodedCtD2665316713371t353nc11520061:12000
Clifton clay loam, 30 to 50 percent slopes, moderately erodedCtE2295716713391t355nc11520061:12000
Clifton clay loam, 8 to 15 percent slopes, moderately erodedCtC2244316713401t356nc11520061:12000
Clifton-Urban land complex, 2 to 15 percent slopesCxC9616713411t357nc11520061:12000
Clifton clay loam, 2 to 8 percent slopes, moderately erodedCtB28616713381t354nc11520061:12000
Clifton clay loam, 15 to 30 percent slopes, erodedCnD21877547556lcs3nc12119971:12000
Clifton clay loam, 30 to 50 percent slopes, erodedCnE21460547557lcs4nc12119971:12000
Clifton clay loam, 8 to 15 percent slopes, erodedCnC21320547555lcs2nc12119971:12000
Clifton clay loam, 30 to 50 percent slopes, erodedCnE25465547831ld1znc19919971:12000
Clifton clay loam, 15 to 30 percent slopes, erodedCnD24754547830ld1ync19919971:12000
Clifton clay loam, 8 to 15 percent slopes, erodedCnC2770547829ld1xnc19919971:12000
Clifton clay loam, 50 to 95 percent slopesCnF235557323lpy5tn64020071:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the CLIFTON 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 .