Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

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

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Pedons used in the lab summary:

MLRALab IDPedon IDTaxonnameCINSSL / NASIS ReportsLink To SoilWeb GMap
55A82ND06312182ND063121Kloten4Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties48.181263,-98.048455

Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the KLOTEN 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 KLOTEN 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 KLOTEN 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 KLOTEN 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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There are insufficient data to create the 3D mountains figure.

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Competing Series

Soil series competing with KLOTEN 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 KLOTEN series and competing. Series are sorted according to hierarchical clustering of median values. Source: SSURGO map unit geometry and 1981-2010, 800m PRISM data .

There are insufficient data to create the annual climate figure.

Geomorphic description summaries for the KLOTEN 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 .

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 KLOTEN, 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

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  1. ND-2012-02-07-07 | Barnes County - June 1990

    Typical pattern of soils and parent material in the Buse-Barnes-Nutley-Kloten association (Soil Survey of Barnes County, North Dakota; June 1990).

  2. ND-2012-02-07-21 | Cavalier County - May 1990

    Typical pattern of soils and parent material in the Olga-Waukon-Rolette association (Soil Survey of Cavalier County, North Dakota; May 1990).

  3. ND-2012-02-08-42 | Nelson County Area - June 1989

    Typical pattern of soils and parent material in the Kloten-Buse-LaDelle association (Soil Survey of Nelson County Area, North Dakota; June 1989).

Map Units

Map units containing KLOTEN 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
Edgeley-Kloten-Buse loams, 9 to 35 percent slopesG586F1303925736342q5rwnd00319881:20000
Edgeley-Kloten-Buse loams, 9 to 35 percent slopesG586F10225736992q5rwnd0051:12000
Olga-Kloten complex, 9 to 75 percent slopesF591F2620225875752q5d7nd01919871:20000
Kloten-Walsh-Edgeley loams, 6 to 35 percent slopesF592F1180025875762q5d8nd01919871:20000
Edgeley-Kloten-Buse loams, 9 to 35 percent slopesG586F195925763342q5rwnd0271:12000
Kloten-Walsh-Edgeley loams, 6 to 35 percent slopesG592F292125764932q5rznd03519801:20000
Kloten-Walsh-Edgeley loams, 6 to 35 percent slopesF592F13225874922q5d8nd03519801:20000
Edgeley-Kloten-Buse loams, 9 to 35 percent slopesG586F1108025766502q5rwnd03919911:24000
Edgeley-Kloten loams, 6 to 9 percent slopesG589C52025766522q5rynd03919911:24000
Edgeley-Kloten-Buse loams, 9 to 35 percent slopesG586F724825773542q5rwnd0631:12000
Edgeley-Kloten-Buse loams, 9 to 35 percent slopesF586F57425873062q5d3nd0631:12000
Kloten-Walsh-Edgeley loams, 6 to 35 percent slopesG592F9225773562q5rznd0631:12000
Olga-Kloten complex, 9 to 75 percent slopesF591F185525855052q5d7nd06719721:20000
Edgeley-Kloten-Buse loams, 9 to 35 percent slopesG586F2225811992q5rwnd07319921:20000
Edgeley-Kloten-Buse loams, 9 to 35 percent slopesG586F185525797752q5rwnd09119911:20000
Edgeley-Kloten-Buse loams, 9 to 35 percent slopesG586F863325813992q5rwnd09319901:24000
Kloten-Walsh-Edgeley loams, 6 to 35 percent slopesF592F979225861682q5d8nd09919671:20000
Edgeley-Kloten loams, 6 to 9 percent slopesF589C57625861672q5d4nd09919671:20000
Edgeley-Kloten-Buse loams, 9 to 35 percent slopesF586F21825861662q5d3nd09919671:20000
Buse-Kloten-Edgeley complex, 9 to 40 percent slopesG583F392927977972sd4fsd01319871:20000
Zahl-Kloten west-Edgeley west, complex, 9 to 35 percent slopesC967E387627656102rsrdsd01319871:20000
Edgeley-Kloten complex, west, 0 to 6 percent slopesC947B113727656092rsrcsd01319871:20000
Edgeley-Kloten complex, 1 to 6 percent slopesG589B36227977992sd4ksd01319871:20000
Buse-Kloten-Edgeley complex, 9 to 40 percent slopesG583F73327985142sd4fsd03719921:20000
Zahl-Kloten west-Edgeley west, complex, 9 to 35 percent slopesC967E11927986152rsrdsd04519731:20000
Buse-Kloten-Edgeley complex, 9 to 40 percent slopesG583F62527992532sd4fsd08919801:20000
Buse-Kloten-Edgeley complex, 9 to 40 percent slopesG583F66827993582sd4fsd09119701:20000
Hattie and Kloten soils, 9 to 25 percent slopesHkD346417838g0snsd10919771:20000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the KLOTEN 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 .