Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the IRONSIDE soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of IRONSIDE, 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 IRONSIDE 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 IRONSIDE 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 IRONSIDE 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 IRONSIDE 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 IRONSIDE 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 IRONSIDE 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 IRONSIDE 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 IRONSIDE 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.

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

Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with IRONSIDE, 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 IRONSIDE 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
Bluecanyon-Ironside complex, 30 to 60 percent south slopes7709CS11925939371sgd0or60419881:24000
Vogel-Ironside-Rock outcrop complex, 30 to 60 percent slopes7760CO8125939491sgfvor60419881:24000
Ironside-Analulu-Vogel complex, 60 to 90 percent slopes7732DO11231206381sgdvor60720181:24000
Bluecanyon-Ironside complex, sandstone substratum, 15 to 30 percent slopes2013BO7331204261r00sor60720181:24000
Bluecanyon-Ironside complex, 30 to 60 percent south slopes7709CS5031206271sgd0or60720181:24000
Ironside-Blackgulch-Rock outcrop complex, 30 to 60 percent slopes7308CO4431205971sg96or60720181:24000
Vogel-Ironside-Bluecanyon complex, 30 to 60 percent slopes7731CO4331202621q70cor60720181:24000
Vogel-Ironside-Bluecanyon complex, 15 to 30 percent slopes7731BO1431207841v6m0or60720181:24000
Vogel-Ironside-Rock outcrop complex, 30 to 60 percent slopes7760CO1031206491sgfvor60720181:24000
Bluecanyon-Ironside complex, 30 to 60 percent south slopes7709CS309031224121sgd0or62620181:24000
Bluecanyon-Ironside-Rock outcrop complex, 60 to 90 percent south slopes7778DS123631224341sgh0or62620181:24000
Bluecanyon-Ironside complex, 0 to 15 percent slopes7709AO78631224101sgcxor62620181:24000
Ironside-Blackgulch-Rock outcrop complex, 30 to 60 percent slopes7308CO56531223811sg96or62620181:24000
Bluecanyon-Ironside complex, 15 to 30 percent slopes7709BO51431224111sgczor62620181:24000
Vogel-Ironside-Bluecanyon complex, 30 to 60 percent slopes7731CO3931221131q70cor62620181:24000
Ironside-Analulu-Vogel complex, 60 to 90 percent slopes7732DO3431224211sgdvor62620181:24000
Bluecanyon-Ironside complex, 30 to 60 percent south slopes7709CS496824374771sgd0or63120181:24000
Vogel-Ironside-Rock outcrop complex, 30 to 60 percent slopes7760CO348324868951sgfvor63120181:24000
Ironside-Analulu-Vogel complex, 60 to 90 percent slopes7732DO259924374891sgdvor63120181:24000
Vogel-Ironside-Bluecanyon complex, 30 to 60 percent slopes7731CO203824374881q70cor63120181:24000
Bluecanyon-Ironside complex, 15 to 30 percent slopes7709BO182324374761sgczor63120181:24000
Vogel-Ironside-Bluecanyon complex, 15 to 30 percent slopes7731BO56624374871v6m0or63120181:24000
Ironside-Blackgulch-Rock outcrop complex, 30 to 60 percent slopes7308CO10424868681sg96or63120181:24000
Bluecanyon-Ironside-Rock outcrop complex, 60 to 90 percent south slopes7778DS5724375041sgh0or63120181:24000
Bluecanyon-Ironside complex, 0 to 15 percent slopes7709AO3324374751sgcxor63120181:24000
Ironside, south-Bluecanyon-Ironside complex, 2 to 45 percent slopes90361111130270322xf36or6451:24000
Ironside-Dupratt-Ginserly complex, 15 to 30 percent slopes9024767027222692sf39or6451:24000
Ginserly-Ironside-Egyptcreek complex, 15 to 40 percent north slopes9025283827222702sf38or6451:24000
Ironside-Bluecanyon complex, 15 to 60 percent south slopes9029201927222742sf34or6451:24000
Ironside-Bluecanyon-Scratchpost complex, 12 to 45 percent slopes903762530270332xf37or6451:24000
Bluecanyon-Ironside complex, sandstone substratum, 15 to 30 percent slopes2013BO3931215201r00sor64819771:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the IRONSIDE 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 .