Soil Data Explorer - DEEKAY

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the DEEKAY soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of DEEKAY, 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 DEEKAY were used in the calculation. Source: KSSL snapshot (updated 2020-03-13). 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 DEEKAY 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 DEEKAY series. Sketches are arranged according to their subgroup-level taxonomic structure. Source: SSURGO snapshot (updated 2024-02-21), parsed OSD records (updated 2023-10-02) and snapshot of SC database (updated 2023-10-02).

Select annual climate data summaries for the DEEKAY 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 DEEKAY 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).

Competing Series

Soil series competing with DEEKAY share the same family level classification in Soil Taxonomy. Source: parsed OSD records (updated 2023-10-02) and snapshot of the SC database (updated 2023-10-02).

Select annual climate data summaries for the DEEKAY 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).

Geomorphic description summaries for the DEEKAY 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 3D mountains figure.

Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with DEEKAY, 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

No block diagrams are available.

Map Units

Map units containing DEEKAY 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
Deekay-Oldwolf loams, 0 to 6 percent slopes	134	111	1387742	1hl1w	mt643	1967	1:20000
Deekay loam, 0 to 6 percent slopes	131	44	1387740	1hl1t	mt643	1967	1:20000
Deekay-Moorhead loams, 0 to 6 percent slopes	132	26	1387741	1hl1v	mt643	1967	1:20000
Deekay loam, 1 to 6 percent slopes	P110B	971	2547455	2qt0x	wy011	1978	1:24000
Deekay loam, 6 to 10 percent slopes	P110C	462	2745730	2qt2h	wy011	1978	1:24000
Deekay-Oldwolf loams, 6 to 15 percent slopes	221	219	780124	2wlqc	wy011	1978	1:24000
Deekay-Oldwolf loams, 0 to 6 percent slopes	220	78	780120	2wlq9	wy011	1978	1:24000
Deekay-Ziggy loams, 0 to 6 percent slopes	222	65	780126	v5sc	wy011	1978	1:24000
Deekay loam, 1 to 6 percent slopes	P110B	146	2547456	2qt0x	wy045	1984	1:24000
Deekay-Oldwolf loams, 0 to 6 percent slopes	134	16292	349819	2wlq9	wy605	1995	1:24000
Deekay-Oldwolf loams, 6 to 15 percent slopes	135	14117	349820	2wlqc	wy605	1995	1:24000
Deekay-Moorhead loams, 0 to 6 percent slopes	132	11431	349817	2ztz9	wy605	1995	1:24000
Ironbutte-Deekay-Moorhead complex, 3 to 30 percent slopes	242	9328	349942	2ztz8	wy605	1995	1:24000
Deekay loam, 0 to 6 percent slopes	131	5801	349816	cr0d	wy605	1995	1:24000
Deekay-Ziggy loams, 0 to 6 percent slopes	136	5027	349821	cr0k	wy605	1995	1:24000
Urban land-Deekay-Moorhead complex, 0 to 6 percent slopes	230	3879	349930	cr42	wy605	1995	1:24000
Deekay-Moorhead loams, 6 to 15 percent slopes	133	2251	349818	cr0g	wy605	1995	1:24000
Iwait-Ziggy-Deekay loams, 6 to 9 percent slopes	901	82	2383954	1hlzf	wy633	1987	1:24000
Deekay loam, 3 to 6 percent slopes	894	9	2383950	1hjtp	wy633	1987	1:24000
Deekay-Oldwolf loams, 0 to 6 percent slopes	134	42380	817523	2wlq9	wy705	2003	1:24000
Deekay-Oldwolf loams, 6 to 15 percent slopes	135	13854	817525	2wlqc	wy705	2003	1:24000
Deekay-Moorhead loams, 0 to 6 percent slopes	132	12333	817521	2ztz9	wy705	2003	1:24000
Deekay loam, 0 to 6 percent slopes	131	9188	817518	wfpk	wy705	2003	1:24000
Deekay-Ziggy loams, 0 to 6 percent slopes	136	7745	817526	wfpt	wy705	2003	1:24000
Deekay-Deekay, stratified substratum loams, 0 to 6 percent slopes	270	6685	817520	wfpm	wy705	2003	1:24000
Ironbutte-Deekay-Moorhead complex, 3 to 30 percent slopes	242	2551	3223114	2ztz8	wy705	2003	1:24000
Deekay-Moorhead loams, 6 to 15 percent slopes	133	1026	817522	wfpp	wy705	2003	1:24000
Deekay-Oldwolf loams, 6 to 15 percent slopes	736	2213	1384630	2wlqc	wy719	2013	1:24000
Deekay loam, 3 to 6 percent slopes	894	700	1386558	1hjtp	wy719	2013	1:24000
Iwait-Ziggy-Deekay loams, 6 to 9 percent slopes	901	565	1388627	1hlzf	wy719	2013	1:24000
Deekay loam, 6 to 9 percent slopes	895	492	1386196	1hjg0	wy719	2013	1:24000
Deekay loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes	893	285	1386557	1hjtn	wy719	2013	1:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the DEEKAY 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).