Aggregate lab data for the GEARY soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of GEARY, 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 GEARY were used in the calculation. Source: KSSL snapshot Methods used to assemble the KSSL snapshot used by SoilWeb / SDE
.Pedons used in the lab summary:
Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the GEARY 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.
Siblings are those soil series that occur together in map units, in this case with the GEARY series. Sketches are arranged according to their subgroup-level taxonomic structure. Source: SSURGO snapshot
, parsed OSD records and snapshot of SC database .Select annual climate data summaries for the GEARY series and siblings. Series are sorted according to hierarchical clustering of median values. Source: SSURGO map unit geometry and 1981-2010, 800m PRISM data
.Geomorphic description summaries for the GEARY 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 .
Soil series competing with GEARY share the same family level classification in Soil Taxonomy. Source: parsed OSD records
and snapshot of the SC database .Select annual climate data summaries for the GEARY series and competing. Series are sorted according to hierarchical clustering of median values. Source: SSURGO map unit geometry and 1981-2010, 800m PRISM data
.Geomorphic description summaries for the GEARY 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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Typical pattern of soils and underlying material in the Crete-Geary-Holder association (Soil Survey of Geary County, Kansas).
Typical pattern of soils and underlying material in the Crete-Hobbs association (Soil Survey of Clay County, Kansas; 1984).
Typical pattern of soils and underlying material in the Harney-Holdrege-Geary association (Soil Survey of Jewell County, Kansas; 1984).
Typical pattern of soils and parent material in the Geary-Harney-Lancaster association (Soil Survey of Lincoln County, Kansas; 1985).
Distribution of the soils in the Crete-Butler-Hastings association (Soil Survey of Republic County, Kansas; 1967).
Distribution of the soils in the Hastings-Crete-Geary association (Soil Survey of Republic County, Kansas; 1967).
Distribution of the soils in the Crete-Geary association (Soil Survey of Rice County, Kansas; 1974).
Distribution of the soils in the Smolan-Crete-Hobbs association (Soil Survey of Rice County, Kansas; 1974).
Distribution of the soils in the Carwile-Farnum-Tabler and Canadian-Kaski-Platte associations (Soil Survey of Rice County, Kansas; 1974).
Pattern of soils and parent material in the Wells-Crete-Lancaster association (Soil Survey of Saline County, Kansas; 1992).
Schematic diagram showing the relationship of major soil series to parent materials in Gage County, Nebraska (Soil Survey of Gage County, Nebraska; May 1964).
Typical pattern of soils in the Geary-Holder-Uly and the Hord-Cass-Hobbs associations showing the relationship of the soils to topography and parent material (Soil Survey of Clay County, Nebraska; March 1981).
Typical pattern of soils and parent material in the Nora-Crofton-Moody association (Soil Survey of Colfax County, Nebraska; January 1982).
Typical pattern of soils, topography, and parent material in the Hastings-Uly-Geary and Muir-Hobbs-Butler associations (Soil Survey of Fillmore County, Nebraska; July 1986).
Typical pattern of soils, topography, and parent material in the Hastings-Crete-Geary association (Soil Survey of Fillmore County, Nebraska; July 1986).
Typical pattern of soils and relationship to topography and parent material in the Hord-Hobbs association (3) and the Holder-Geary association (8) (Soil Survey of Hamilton County, Nebraska; March 1985).
Soils in the Burchard-Shelby association (Soil Survey of Saunders County, Nebraska; January 1965).
Map units containing GEARY as a major component. Limited to 250 records.
Approximate geographic distribution of the GEARY 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 .