Soil Data Explorer - GELKIE

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the GELKIE soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of GELKIE, 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 GELKIE were used in the calculation. Source: KSSL snapshot (updated 2020-03-13). 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 GELKIE 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 GELKIE series. Sketches are arranged according to their subgroup-level taxonomic structure. Source: SSURGO snapshot (updated 2024-02-21), parsed OSD records (updated 2023-10-02) and snapshot of SC database (updated 2023-10-02).

Select annual climate data summaries for the GELKIE 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 GELKIE 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 flats position figure.

Competing Series

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

Select annual climate data summaries for the GELKIE 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 GELKIE 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 flats position figure.

Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with GELKIE, 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

No block diagrams are available.

Map Units

Map units containing GELKIE 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
Gelkie sandy loam, 3 to 15 percent slopes	20	5714	496455	jnlp	co627	1980	1:24000
Gelkie sandy loam, 15 to 30 percent slopes	21	2423	496456	jnlq	co627	1980	1:24000
Bushvalley-Gelkie-Rock outcrop complex, 3 to 65 percent slopes	10	27921	498440	jqnq	co633	1981	1:24000
Gelkie loam, 3 to 25 percent slopes	27	4737	498458	jqp9	co633	1981	1:24000
Clayburn-Gelkie-Bowen families complex, 2 to 30 percent slopes	815G	1815	500989	jt9y	co634		1:24000
Bowen-Gelkie families association, 2 to 40 percent slopes	645M	740	500975	jt9h	co634		1:24000
Gelkie sandy loam, 1 to 10 percent slopes	12	12360	498375	jqlm	co635	1979	1:24000
Gelkie sandy loam, 2 to 15 percent slopes	GeD	14360	497784	jpzk	co646	1973	1:24000
Gelkie sandy loam, moderately deep variant, 0 to 25 percent slopes	GkE	962	497785	jpzl	co646	1973	1:24000
Youga-Gelkie-Clayburn, warm complex, 25 to 45 percent slopes, extremely bouldery	221	67	3106836	jpch	co648		1:24000
Gelkie fine sandy loam, 2 to 7 percent slopes	143	320	2453683	2nc82	co664	1987	1:24000
Youga-Gelkie-Clayburn, warm complex, 25 to 45 percent slopes, extremely bouldery	221	6538	497193	jpch	co686	1992	1:31680
Gelkie-Goosepeak families-Rock outcrop complex, 15 to 55 percent slopes, extremely stony	162		3253333	597m	wy629		1:24000
Brushfire-Gelkie-Reinecker complex, 0 to 4 percent slopes	3202	5643	1653609	1shq7	wy635		1:24000
Jaycox-Burtswell-Gelkie complex, 2 to 12 percent slopes	3404	4210	1676005	1t80p	wy635		1:24000
Gelkie-Goosepeak families-Rock outcrop complex, 15 to 55 percent slopes, extremely stony	162	6186	157840	597m	wy656	2008	1:24000
Hoodle-Gelkie association, 2 to 15 percent slopes	163D	188	157925	59bc	wy656	2008	1:24000
Lymanson-Abston-Gelkie association, hilly	71	87	1901567	21tqw	wy677	1975	1:24000
Uhl-Gelkie loams, 1 to 8 percent slopes	68	46	1901579	21tr8	wy677	1975	1:24000
Hoodle-Gelkie association, 2 to 15 percent slopes	163	79241	503028	jwfq	wy713	1986	1:24000
Uhl-Gelkie loams, 1 to 8 percent slopes	217	20098	503095	jwhw	wy713	1986	1:24000
Lymanson-Abston-Gelkie association, hilly	171	16638	503036	jwfz	wy713	1986	1:24000
Gelkie variant-Barrett variant association, undulating	152	3336	503017	jwfc	wy713	1986	1:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the GELKIE 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).