Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the ELMARK soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of ELMARK, 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 ELMARK 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 ELMARK 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 ELMARK 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 ELMARK 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 ELMARK 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 ELMARK 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 ELMARK 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 ELMARK 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 ELMARK, 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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Map Units

Map units containing ELMARK 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
Elmark, bouldery-Lumpgulch, very bouldery-Rock outcrop complex, 8 to 35 percent slopes, dry1945E676815077051wkmt62719981:24000
Elmark, bouldery-Hoyt-Shaboom, very bouldery, complex, 8 to 35 percent slopes, dry1946E286315077151wlmt62719981:24000
Elmark, bouldery-Lumpgulch, very bouldery-Rock outcrop complex, 8 to 35 percent slopes1940E267715076951wjmt62719981:24000
Ymark, very bouldery-Elmark, very bouldery-Rock outcrop complex, 25 to 60 percent slopes1163F166815051651mcmt62719981:24000
Burtoner-Elmark-Shaboom, very bouldery, complex, 15 to 45 percent slopes1378E143215061451qjmt62719981:24000
Elmark, very bouldery-Skyview, very bouldery-Rock outcrop complex, 15 to 45 percent slopes1948E112015077351wnmt62719981:24000
Elmark, bouldery-Burtoner-Rock outcrop complex, 8 to 45 percent slopes1947E100015077251wmmt62719981:24000
Shaboom, extremely bouldery-Rock outcrop-Elmark, very bouldery, association, 35 to 60 percent slopes1540F90815062451qvmt62719981:24000
Skyview, very bouldery-Elmark, very bouldery-Rock outcrop complex, 15 to 45 percent slopes2001E65515079251x8mt62719981:24000
Burtoner-Elmark-Connieo complex, 8 to 25 percent slopes, very bouldery1373E53215060751q9mt62719981:24000
Lumpgulch, bouldery-Rock outcrop-Elmark, bouldery, complex, 8 to 35 percent slopes1361E52215060351q5mt62719981:24000
Elmark-Kellygulch, very bouldery-Rock outcrop complex, 8 to 35 percent slopes1930E51015076651wfmt62719981:24000
Elmark, bouldery-Breeton-Shaboom, bouldery, complex, 15 to 45 percent slopes1933E45115076751wgmt62719981:24000
Elmark, very bouldery-Rock outcrop-Shaboom, extremely bouldery, complex, 25 to 60 percent slopes1910F40515075951w6mt62719981:24000
Kokoruda-Elmark, very bouldery-Rock outcrop complex, 8 to 35 percent slopes2030E22715080451xnmt62719981:24000
Burtoner-Elmark-Connieo complex, 8 to 25 percent slopes, very bouldery1373E65017030551v558mt63520061:24000
Shaboom, extremely bouldery-Rock outcrop-Elmark, very bouldery, association, 35 to 60 percent slopes1540F30417030561v559mt63520061:24000
Elmark, very bouldery-Rock outcrop-Shaboom, extremely bouldery, complex, 25 to 60 percent slopes1910F12417030841v566mt63520061:24000
Lumpgulch, bouldery-Rock outcrop-Elmark, bouldery, complex, 8 to 35 percent slopes1361E6217030541v557mt63520061:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the ELMARK 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 .