Soil Data Explorer - FONDA

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the FONDA soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of FONDA, 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 FONDA were used in the calculation. Source: KSSL snapshot (updated 2020-03-18). 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 FONDA 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 FONDA series. Sketches are arranged according to their subgroup-level taxonomic structure. Source: SSURGO snapshot (updated 2024-02-21), parsed OSD records (updated 2023-10-06) and snapshot of SC database (updated 2023-10-02).

Select annual climate data summaries for the FONDA 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 FONDA 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).

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

Competing Series

Soil series competing with FONDA share the same family level classification in Soil Taxonomy. Source: parsed OSD records (updated 2023-10-06) and snapshot of the SC database (updated 2023-10-02).

Select annual climate data summaries for the FONDA 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 FONDA 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 hills figure.

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

Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with FONDA, 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

Click a link below to display the diagram. Note that these diagrams may be from multiple survey areas.

1. NY-2012-02-15-05 | Cayuga County - 1971

   Typical cross section of Ontario association in the north-central part of the county (Soil Survey of Cayuga County, New York; 1971).

2. NY-2012-02-15-18 | Genesee County - March 1969

   Cross section showing typical soil pattern in the Mohawk-Manheim association (Soil Survey of Genesee County, New York; March 1969).

Map Units

Map units containing FONDA 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
Fonda mucky silt loam	Fo	3267	289402	9q4k	ny011	1968	1:15840
Fonda mucky silt loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes	49A	963	1472247	1ldzv	ny035	2007	1:24000
Fonda mucky silt loam	Fo	2364	301703	b3yc	ny037	2004	1:24000
Fonda silty clay loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes	BaA	1847	2677625	bmhj	ny049	2018	1:24000
Fonda silt loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes	FaA	1195	2677671	bmk0	ny049	2018	1:24000
Fonda and Canandaigua mucky silt loams, 0 to 3 percent slopes	14A	2330	3105642	2y9v4	ny051	2019	1:24000
Fonda mucky silt loam	Fo	1924	292555	9tf8	ny053	1975	1:15840
Fonda mucky silty clay loam	Fo	4441	292815	9tpn	ny057	1973	1:24000
Fonda mucky silty clay loam	Fo	2590	293560	9vgp	ny067	1973	1:20000
Fonda mucky silt loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes	45A	191	2400437	2lkvg	ny069	2012	1:12000
Fonda mucky silt loam	Fo	998	294029	9vyt	ny073	1973	1:15840
Fonda mucky silt loam	Fn	1944	294112	9w1h	ny075	1973	1:15840
Fonda mucky silt loam	Fo	830	294212	9w4q	ny077	1993	1:24000
Fonda mucky silty clay loam	Fn	1542	294722	9wp5	ny099	1966	1:15840
Fonda mucky silt loam	Fo	2746	292995	9twg	ny664	1968	1:15840

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the FONDA 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).