Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

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

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Water Balance

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

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Sibling Summary

Siblings are those soil series that occur together in map units, in this case with the HERAKLE series. Sketches are arranged according to their subgroup-level taxonomic structure. Source: SSURGO snapshot , parsed OSD records and snapshot of SC database .

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Select annual climate data summaries for the HERAKLE series and siblings. Series are sorted according to hierarchical clustering of median values. Source: SSURGO map unit geometry and 1981-2010, 800m PRISM data .

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Geomorphic description summaries for the HERAKLE 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 .

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Competing Series

Soil series competing with HERAKLE share the same family level classification in Soil Taxonomy. Source: parsed OSD records and snapshot of the SC database .

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Select annual climate data summaries for the HERAKLE series and competing. Series are sorted according to hierarchical clustering of median values. Source: SSURGO map unit geometry and 1981-2010, 800m PRISM data .

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Geomorphic description summaries for the HERAKLE 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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There are insufficient data to create the 3D terrace figure.

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Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with HERAKLE, 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 .

Block Diagrams

No block diagrams are available.

Map Units

Map units containing HERAKLE 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
Herakle-Rock outcrop complex, 15 to 45 percent slopes431195498309jqjhco63719861:24000
Ula-Herakle complex, 15 to 45 percent slopes110299724506942n84nco63820101:24000
Highwood, stony-Herakle, extremely stony-Windicreek, stony families, complex, 20 to 70 percent slopes6225G11231692432v11gmt60019691:24000
Cowcoulee-Herakle, very stony-Skaggs, stony families, complex, 25 to 60 percent slopes1156F3830396642r6y9mt60219631:20000
Cowcoulee-Burnette family-Herakle family, stony, complex, 8 to 35 percent slopes1156E92830397222qbzhmt61319751:24000
Cowcoulee-Herakle, very stony-Skaggs, stony families, complex, 25 to 60 percent slopes1156F84630397102r6y9mt61319751:24000
Kimpton, very stony-Herakle, extremely stony-Cowcoulee, stony families, complex, 25 to 70 percent slopes1177G45130397262tym5mt61319751:24000
Cowcoulee-Herakle, very stony-Skaggs, stony families, complex, 25 to 60 percent slopes1156F9929796362r6y9mt62420211:24000
Kimpton, very stony-Herakle, extremely stony-Cowcoulee, stony families, complex, 25 to 70 percent slopes1177G25730940972tym5mt63019911:24000
Herakle, extremely stony-Cloud Peak, very stony-Duckcreek families, complex, 25 to 60 percent slopes1119F3830941522r6yjmt63019911:24000
Cowcoulee-Herakle, very stony-Skaggs, stony families, complex, 25 to 60 percent slopes1156F3530940892r6y9mt63019911:24000
Cowcoulee-Herakle, very stony-Skaggs, stony families, complex, 25 to 60 percent slopes1156F777226044782r6y9mt6321:24000
Cowcoulee-Burnette family-Herakle family, stony, complex, 8 to 35 percent slopes1156E697326322372qbzhmt6321:24000
Kimpton, very stony-Herakle, extremely stony-Cowcoulee, stony families, complex, 25 to 70 percent slopes1177G279528268302tym5mt6321:24000
Ouselfal-Herakle-Skaggs families, complex, 20 to 60 percent slopes, very stony6260F243929110402w759mt6321:24000
Highwood, stony-Herakle, extremely stony-Windicreek, stony families, complex, 20 to 70 percent slopes6225G199828324602v11gmt6321:24000
Herakle, extremely stony-Cloud Peak, very stony-Duckcreek families, complex, 25 to 60 percent slopes1119F139026044842r6yjmt6321:24000
Dryadine, stony-Helmville-Herakle, extremely stony families, complex, 25 to 60 percent slopes1364F97223932132lbbfmt6321:24000
Cloud Peak, very stony-Duckcreek-Herakle, very stony families, complex, 4 to 25 percent slopes1119E96626044832r6yhmt6321:24000
Cloud Peak, very stony-Findon, stony-Herakle, very stony families, complex, 15 to 60 percent slopes, landslides1120F83826044852r6ykmt6321:24000
Cowcoulee-Herakle, very stony-Skaggs, stony families, complex, 25 to 60 percent slopes1156F25229796612r6y9mt63720141:24000
Cowcoulee-Burnette family-Herakle family, stony, complex, 8 to 35 percent slopes1156E14929796572qbzhmt63720141:24000
Ouselfal-Herakle-Skaggs families, complex, 20 to 60 percent slopes, very stony6260F13330941462w759mt65719901:24000
Cowcoulee-Herakle, very stony-Skaggs, stony families, complex, 25 to 60 percent slopes1156F2730941242r6y9mt65719901:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the HERAKLE 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 .