Soil Data Explorer - FULLAM

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the FULLAM soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of FULLAM, 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 FULLAM were used in the calculation. Source: KSSL snapshot (updated 2020-03-18). Methods used to assemble the KSSL snapshot used by SoilWeb / SDE

Pedons used in the lab summary:

MLRA	Lab ID	Pedon ID	Taxonname	CI	NSSL / NASIS Reports	Link To SoilWeb GMap
144B	80P0437	80VT025002	Fullam	7	Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties	43.0102768,-72.4827805

Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the FULLAM 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 FULLAM 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 FULLAM 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 FULLAM 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 terrace figure.

Competing Series

Soil series competing with FULLAM 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 FULLAM 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 FULLAM 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 terrace figure.

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

Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with FULLAM, 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. MA-2012-02-01-06 | Berkshire County - February 1988

   Typical pattern of soils and parent material in the Taconic-Macomber-Lanesboro general soil map unit (Soil Survey of Berkshire County, Massachusetts; February 1988).

2. VT-2012-03-22-15 | Windham County - February 1987

   Typical landscape pattern of soils and underlying material in the Dummerston-Macomber-Taconic general soil map unit (Soil Survey of Windham County, VT; 1987).

Map Units

Map units containing FULLAM 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
Fullam silt loam, 3 to 15 percent slopes, very stony	408C	928	3395873	9lsk	ct601	2003	1:12000
Fullam-Lanesboro association, rolling, very stony	930C	8974	276584	98t2	ma003	1984	1:25000
Fullam loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes, very stony	525B	101	279125	9cg1	ma011	2012	1:12000
Fullam loam, 8 to 15 percent slopes, very stony	525C	40	279124	9cg0	ma011	2012	1:12000
Fullam silt loam, 8 to 15 percent slopes, very stony	74C	2705	282084	9gjh	vt025	1984	1:20000
Fullam silt loam, 8 to 15 percent slopes	73C	1717	282081	9gjd	vt025	1984	1:20000
Fullam silt loam, 15 to 25 percent slopes, very stony	74D	1616	282085	9gjj	vt025	1984	1:20000
Fullam silt loam, 25 to 35 percent slopes, very stony	74E	1105	282086	9gjk	vt025	1984	1:20000
Fullam silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes	73B	977	282080	9gjc	vt025	1984	1:20000
Fullam silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes, very stony	74B	915	282083	9gjg	vt025	1984	1:20000
Fullam silt loam, 15 to 25 percent slopes	73D	525	282082	9gjf	vt025	1984	1:20000
Fullam silt loam, 8 to 15 percent slopes	85C	521	283319	9htb	vt027	2000	1:20000
Fullam silt loam, 15 to 35 percent slopes, very stony	86D	191	283324	9hth	vt027	2000	1:20000
Fullam silt loam, 8 to 15 percent slopes, very stony	86C	165	283325	9htj	vt027	2000	1:20000
Fullam silt loam, 15 to 25 percent slopes	85D	107	283320	9htc	vt027	2000	1:20000
Fullam silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes	85B	63	283321	9htd	vt027	2000	1:20000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the FULLAM 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).