Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the ELMWOOD soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of ELMWOOD, 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 ELMWOOD 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
144B40A1273S1962ME005001Elmwood6Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties43.5777397,-70.3783188
144B40A1274S1962ME005002Elmwood6Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties43.5755157,-70.4172058

Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the ELMWOOD 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 ELMWOOD 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 ELMWOOD 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 ELMWOOD 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 mountains figure.

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Competing Series

Soil series competing with ELMWOOD 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 ELMWOOD series and competing. Series are sorted according to hierarchical clustering of median values. Source: SSURGO map unit geometry and 1981-2010, 800m PRISM data .

There are insufficient data to create the annual climate figure.

Geomorphic description summaries for the ELMWOOD 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 .

There are insufficient data to create the 2D hillslope position figure.

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

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

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

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

Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with ELMWOOD, 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. MA-2012-02-02-05 | Essex County, Northern Part - February 1981

    Typical pattern of soils and parent material in the Scantic-Maybid-Buxton association (Soil Survey of Essex County, Massachusetts, Northern Part; February 1981).

  2. ME-2012-02-03-16 | York County - June 1982

    Typical pattern of soils and underlying material in the Scantic-Raynham-Buxton association (Soil Survey of York County, Maine; June 1982).

  3. ME-2012-02-03-20 | York County - June 1982

    Typical pattern of soils and underlying material in the Naumburg-Croghan association (Soil Survey of York County, Maine; June 1982).

Map Units

Map units containing ELMWOOD 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
Elmwood fine sandy loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes240B311790181vj7qma60519771:15840
Elmwood fine sandy loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes240A257790178vj7mma60519771:15840
Elmwood fine sandy loam, 0 to 8 percent slopesEmB9382315681blh8me00519691:24000
Elmwood fine sandy loam, 0 to 8 percent slopesEmB34872846269k5hme03119781:20000
Elmwood fine sandy loam, 8 to 15 percent slopesEmC6992846279k5jme03119781:20000
Elmwood fine sandy loam, 2 to 8 percent slopesEmB42012848309kd2me60619661:15840
Elmwood fine sandy loam, 8 to 15 percent slopes, erodedEmC27032848319kd3me60619661:15840
Elmwood fine sandy loam, 0 to 8 percent slopesEwB26332852119kscme61419601:20000
Elmwood fine sandy loam, 3 to 8 percent slopesEaB12212798699d71nh01719681:20000
Elmwood fine sandy loam, 0 to 3 percent slopesEaA4842798689d70nh01719681:20000
Elmwood silt loam, 0 to 6 percent slopesEbB9992677662bmjqny04920181:24000
Elmwood fine sandy loam, 0 to 3 percent slopesElA4472925499tf2ny05319751:15840
Elmwood fine sandy loam, 3 to 8 percent slopesElB3172925509tf3ny05319751:15840
Elmwood fine sandy loam, 2 to 6 percent slopesEmB3332941089w1cny07519731:15840
Elmwood fine sandy loam, 3 to 8 percent slopesEmB70562949389wx4ny08919901:24000
Elmwood fine sandy loam, 0 to 3 percent slopesEmA25122949379wx3ny08919901:24000
Elmwood fine sandy loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes47B132960669y2jny68919991:24000
Elmwood fine sandy loam, coarse variant, 0 to 8 percent slopesElB35762812569fnsvt00119671:15840
Elmwood fine sandy loam, coarse variant, 8 to 15 percent slopesElC1832812579fntvt00119671:15840
Elmwood fine sandy loam, 0 to 3 percent slopesEaA4362792469ckyvt01319561:20000
Elmwood fine sandy loam, 3 to 8 percent slopesEaB2872792479ckzvt01319561:20000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the ELMWOOD 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 .