Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the DALTON soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of DALTON, 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 DALTON 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 DALTON 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 DALTON 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 DALTON 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 DALTON 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 DALTON 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 DALTON 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 DALTON 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 hills figure.

There are insufficient data to create the 3D mountains figure.

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

Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with DALTON, 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-2012-02-16-02 | Wyoming County - April 1974

    Typical pattern of soils in association 5 (Soil Survey of Wyoming County, New York; April 1974).

  2. NY-2012-02-16-07 | Wyoming County - April 1974

    Typical pattern of soils in association 16 (Soil Survey of Wyoming County, New York; April 1974).

Map Units

Map units containing DALTON 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
Dalton silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes67B984299953b23xny00320131:24000
Dalton silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes, cool phase167B839299789b1ymny00320131:24000
Dalton silt loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes, cool phase167A493299788b1ylny00320131:24000
Dalton silt loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes67A318299952b23wny00320131:24000
Dalton silt loam, 8 to 15 percent slopes67C127318202bp3lny00320131:24000
Dalton silt loam, 2 to 8 percent slopesDaB10032891839pxhny00719661:15840
Dalton silt loam, 8 to 15 percent slopesDaC8322891849pxjny00719661:15840
Dalton silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes67B32032896759qfcny00920021:24000
Dalton silt loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes67A9802896749qfbny00920021:24000
Dalton silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopesDaB22002898169qkxny01319881:15840
Dalton silt loam, 0 to 3 percent slopesDaA21962898159qkwny01319881:15840
Dalton silt loam, 0 to 3 percent slopesDaA33152953389xb1ny12119691:20000
Dalton silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopesDaB15822953399xb2ny12119691:20000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the DALTON 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 .