Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the CRYODS soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of CRYODS, 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 CRYODS were used in the calculation. Source: KSSL snapshot (updated 2020-03-13). 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 CRYODS 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 CRYODS series. Sketches are arranged according to their subgroup-level taxonomic structure. Source: SSURGO snapshot (updated 2024-10-24), parsed OSD records (updated 2024-10-23) and snapshot of SC database (updated 2024-10-23).

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Select annual climate data summaries for the CRYODS 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 2024-10-23).

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Geomorphic description summaries for the CRYODS 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 2024-10-23).

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Competing Series

Soil series competing with CRYODS share the same family level classification in Soil Taxonomy. Source: parsed OSD records (updated 2024-10-23) and snapshot of the SC database (updated 2024-10-23).

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Select annual climate data summaries for the CRYODS 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 2024-10-23).

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Geomorphic description summaries for the CRYODS 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 2024-10-23).

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Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with CRYODS, 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 2024-10-23).

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Block Diagrams

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Map Units

Map units containing CRYODS 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
Cryods and Cryaquepts, cool, 0 to 35 percent slopes11940710502481p8xak60019961:24000
Cryods, low elevation, and Cryochrepts, 30 to 70 percent slopes12033152502501p8zak60019961:24000
Cryods, 35 to 90 percent slopes11730596502461p8vak60019961:24000
Cryods, shallow, 35 to 90 percent slopes12124624502511p90ak60019961:24000
Cryods, cool-Niklason, moderately wet-Qeni complex, 0 to 15 percent slopes1183774502471p8wak60019961:24000
Qeni, cool-Niklavar, cool-Cryods, cold complex, 0 to 25 percent slopes1812591503111pbyak60019961:24000
Cryods-Cryorthents-Rock outcrop complex, 5 to 120 percent slopes10445372506731pqmak63919991:24000
Cryods-Typic Cryaquents, moderately wet association, 0 to 5 percent slopes451X3139495241njkak64519921:31680
Cryofluvents-Cryods complex, 0 to 5 percent slopes53W6851501271p50ak64619921:31680
Cryods-Cryofluvents complex, floodplains, 0 to 5 percent slopes53Y4132501281p51ak64619921:31680
Entisols-Cryods complex, flat lowlands, 0 to 5 percent slope62F3753501461p5mak64619921:31680
Cryods-Cryofluvents complex, alluvial fans, o to 35 percent slopes52Y3440501201p4sak64619921:31680

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the CRYODS 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 2024-10-30).