Soil Data Explorer - LITHIC CRYOSAPRISTS

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the LITHIC CRYOSAPRISTS soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of LITHIC CRYOSAPRISTS, 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 LITHIC CRYOSAPRISTS were used in the calculation. Source: KSSL snapshot (updated 2020-03-13). 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 LITHIC CRYOSAPRISTS 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 LITHIC CRYOSAPRISTS series. Sketches are arranged according to their subgroup-level taxonomic structure. Source: SSURGO snapshot (updated 2024-10-24), parsed OSD records (updated 2024-10-23) and snapshot of SC database (updated 2024-10-23).

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Select annual climate data summaries for the LITHIC CRYOSAPRISTS 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 2024-10-23).

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Geomorphic description summaries for the LITHIC CRYOSAPRISTS 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 2024-10-23).

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Competing Series

Soil series competing with LITHIC CRYOSAPRISTS share the same family level classification in Soil Taxonomy. Source: parsed OSD records (updated 2024-10-23) and snapshot of the SC database (updated 2024-10-23).

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Select annual climate data summaries for the LITHIC CRYOSAPRISTS 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 2024-10-23).

There are insufficient data to create the annual climate figure.

Geomorphic description summaries for the LITHIC CRYOSAPRISTS 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 2024-10-23).

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 LITHIC CRYOSAPRISTS, 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 2024-10-23).

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Block Diagrams

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Map Units

Map units containing LITHIC CRYOSAPRISTS 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
Lithic Cryosaprists-Lithic Humicryods association, 15 to 120 percent slopes, alpine	410X	211782	49505	1nhy	ak645	1992	1:31680
Lithic Cryaquods-Lithic Cryosaprists association, 35 to 120 percent slopes	422X	48315	49509	1nj2	ak645	1992	1:31680
Lithic Cryosaprists, Alpine, and Rock outcrop soils, 0 to 35 percent slopes	12A	85199	49844	1nvw	ak646	1992	1:31680
Lithic Cryosaprist and Lithic Cryaquod soils, rolling hills, 36 to 55 percent slopes	42P	29125	50065	1p30	ak646	1992	1:31680
Spodosols and Lithic Cryosaprist soils, alpine, 36 to 120 percent slopes	12S	22929	49845	1nvx	ak646	1992	1:31680
Lithic Cryosaprists, rolling hills, 36 to 55 percent slopes	42T	20923	50066	1p31	ak646	1992	1:31680
Lithic Cryosaprists, broken, 36 to 55 percent slopes	36T	16144	50043	1p29	ak646	1992	1:31680
Lithic Cryosaprist and Lithic Cryaquod soils, 56 to 75 percent slopes	36PD	6801	50039	1p25	ak646	1992	1:31680
Lithic Cryosaprist and Lithic Cryaquod soils, broken, 36 to 55 percent slopes	36PC	5651	50038	1p24	ak646	1992	1:31680
Lithic Cryosaprists-Lithic Cryaquods, shallowly incised, 56 to 75 percent slopes	32PD	3375	49923	1nyf	ak646	1992	1:31680
Lithic Cryosaprists-Lithic Cryaquods complex, shallowly incised, 36 to 55 percent slopes	32PC	2706	49922	1nyd	ak646	1992	1:31680
Lithic Cryosaprists-Lithic Cryaquods complex, smooth, 36 to 55 percent slopes	35PC	2138	49966	1nzt	ak646	1992	1:31680
Lithic Cryosaprists-Lithic Cryaquods complex, smooth hills, 36 to 55 percent slopes	44PC	2042	50093	1p3x	ak646	1992	1:31680
Lithic Cryosaprists-Lithic Cryaquods complex, smooth, 56 to 75 percent slopes	35PD	1389	49967	1nzv	ak646	1992	1:31680
Lithic Cryosaprist-Lithic Cryaquods complex, deeply incised, 56 to 75 percent slopes	31PD	1388	49881	1nx2	ak646	1992	1:31680
Lithic Cryosaprists-Lithic Cryaquods complex, smooth hills, 56 to 75 percent slopes	44PD	1061	50094	1p3y	ak646	1992	1:31680
Lithic Cryosaprists and Rock outcrop	1200A	1230	2805118	2tpv5	ak693	2019	1:63360

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the LITHIC CRYOSAPRISTS 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 2024-10-30).