Soil Data Explorer - GERMANY

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the GERMANY soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of GERMANY, 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 GERMANY were used in the calculation. Source: KSSL snapshot (updated 2020-03-13). 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
1	84P0909	84WA015003	Germany	6	Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties	46.2666664,-123.0666656
1	84P0920	84WA069004	Germany	7	Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties	46.1666679,-123.2666702

Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the GERMANY 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 GERMANY 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 GERMANY 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 GERMANY 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).

Competing Series

Soil series competing with GERMANY 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 GERMANY 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).

There are insufficient data to create the annual climate figure.

Geomorphic description summaries for the GERMANY 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 2D hillslope position figure.

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

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

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 GERMANY, 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. WA-2012-05-11-26 | Grays Harbor County Area, Pacific County, and Wahkiakum County - July 1986

   Pattern of soils and parent material in general soil map unit 11 (Soil Survey of Grays Harbor County Area, Pacific County, and Wahkiakum County, Washington; July 1986).

Map Units

Map units containing GERMANY 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
Germany family-Lithic Xerumbrepts-Lava flows association, 1 to 20 percent slopes.	174	47865	470489	hsl2	ca703	1983	1:24000
Germany deep-Sadie families complex, 1 to 5 percent slopes.	173	2760	470488	hsl1	ca703	1983	1:24000
Germany-Washougal families association, 0 20 percent slopes.	73st	1	1898905	21qz0	ca703	1983	1:24000
Shasta-Germany, deep families complex, 0 to 20 percent slopes.	291	10595	470889	hszz	ca707	1983	1:24000
Washougal-Germany, deep families complex, 20 to 40 percent slopes.	333	8461	470931	ht1b	ca707	1983	1:24000
Ledmount-Germany families complex, 0 to 10 percent slopes.	166	7254	470764	hsvy	ca707	1983	1:24000
Germany-Leadmount families complex, 0 to 10 percent slopes.	71	6101	470669	hsrw	ca707	1983	1:24000
Germany, deep-Neer families association, 0 to 20 percent slopes.	75	5277	470673	hss0	ca707	1983	1:24000
Germany-Shasta families association, 0 to 20 percent slopes.	72	5245	470670	hsrx	ca707	1983	1:24000
Germany family, 0 to 25 percent slopes.	69	5224	470667	hsrt	ca707	1983	1:24000
Germany family-Germany family, deep complex, 0 to 20 percent slopes.	70	4686	470668	hsrv	ca707	1983	1:24000
Germany family, deep-Rock outcrop association, 0 to 20 percent slopes.	76	4082	470674	hss1	ca707	1983	1:24000
Germant, deep-Washougal families complex, 0 to 20 percent slopes.	77	4058	470675	hss2	ca707	1983	1:24000
Germany-Washougal families association, 0 20 percent slopes.	73	3798	470671	hsry	ca707	1983	1:24000
Germany family, deep, 0 to 20 percent slopes.	74	3791	470672	hsrz	ca707	1983	1:24000
Sadie, deep-Germany families association, 0 to 20 percent slopes.	280	2052	470878	hszm	ca707	1983	1:24000
Germany silt loam, 20 to 30 percent slopes	56	9760	72560	2fhn	wa015	1994	1:24000
Germany silt loam, 8 to 20 percent slopes	55	4260	72558	2fhl	wa015	1994	1:24000
Germany silt loam, tuff substratum, 20 to 30 percent slopes	59	3265	72620	2fkl	wa015	1994	1:24000
Germany silt loam, 30 to 65 percent slopes	57	2700	72594	2fjr	wa015	1994	1:24000
Germany silt loam, 0 to 8 percent slopes	54	2235	72546	2fh6	wa015	1994	1:24000
Germany silt loam, tuff substratum, 8 to 20 percent slopes	58	1745	72600	2fjy	wa015	1994	1:24000
Germany silt loam, tuff substratum, 30 to 65 percent slopes	60	1525	72623	2fkp	wa015	1994	1:24000
Germany silt loam, 1 to 8 percent slopes	40	6860	73635	2gmb	wa627	1979	1:24000
Germany silt loam, 8 to 30 percent slopes	41	6814	73636	2gmc	wa627	1979	1:24000
Germany silt loam, 30 to 65 percent slopes	42	1560	73637	2gmd	wa627	1979	1:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the GERMANY 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).