Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the FIELDON soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of FIELDON, 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 FIELDON 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
103UMN1611S1972MN0131611Fieldon2Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties44.0469627,-94.2789078
103UMN1701S1973MN0131701Fieldon2Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties44.0389824,-94.2592926

Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the FIELDON 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 FIELDON 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 FIELDON 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 FIELDON 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 FIELDON 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 FIELDON 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 FIELDON 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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Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with FIELDON, 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. MN-2010-09-08-16 | Meeker County - 1999

    Typical pattern of soils and parent material in the Fieldon-Litchfield-Dassel association (Soil Survey of Meeker County, Minnesota; 1999).

Map Units

Map units containing FIELDON 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
Fieldon loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes34851174065492wd81ia08119871:15840
Fieldon loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes34860074083702wd81ia10919801:15840
Fieldon loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes380A37129881451257nil09120031:12000
Fieldon loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes380A533618728nrtzil19720021:12000
Fieldon loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes16042953961432wd81mn01319751:12000
Fieldon-Canisteo loams9292097396221f99bmn01319751:12000
Canisteo-Fieldon loams919801396213f992mn01319751:12000
Fieldon-Canisteo complex9293025396318f9dgmn01519841:20000
Fieldon-Canisteo complex9297846397130fb7nmn04319891:20000
Fieldon loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes16029383970852wd81mn04319891:20000
Fieldon loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes16024183978162wd81mn04719771:15840
Coriff-Fieldon complex8104604398720fcwymn06719831:20000
Fieldon-Dassel, depressional complex, 0 to 2 percent slopes10965020436176gmw6mn09319961:20000
Coriff-Fieldon complex, 0 to 2 percent slopes810321436118gmtbmn12919951:20000
Fieldon-Canisteo complex, 0 to 2 percent slopesL103A404455457h8y5mn16120011:12000
Fieldon loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes16090504289212wd81mn16519871:20000
Fieldon-Canisteo complex9295849428973gdcvmn16519871:20000
Fieldon loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes16096516535692wd81mn17319791:20000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the FIELDON 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 .