Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

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

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

Competing Series

Soil series competing with MARBLECREEK 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 MARBLECREEK 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 MARBLECREEK 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 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 MARBLECREEK, 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. ID-2010-08-31-06 | St. Joe Area, Parts of Benewah and Shoshone Counties - 2002

    Typical pattern of soils and underlying material in general soil map unit 6 (Soil Survey of St. Joe Area, Parts of Benewah and Shoshone Counties, Idaho; 2002).

  2. ID-2010-08-31-10 | St. Joe Area, Parts of Benewah and Shoshone Counties - 2002

    Typical pattern of soils and underlying material in general soil map unit 5 (Soil Survey of St. Joe Area, Parts of Benewah and Shoshone Counties, Idaho; 2002).

  3. ID-2011-06-01-19 | St. Joe Area, Parts of Benewah and Shoshone Counties - 2002

    Typical pattern of soils and underlying material in General Soil Map Unit 6 (Soil Survey of St. Joe Area, Parts of Benewah and Shoshone Counties, Idaho; 2002).

Map Units

Map units containing MARBLECREEK 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
Bouldercreek-Marblecreek association, 35 to 65 percent slopesBm1j4452250116554lrid05720131:24000
Pearsoncreek-Marblecreek-Newbell families, complex, glaciated stream breaklands, metasedimentary belt geology2lfxz16228507792lfxzid60120021:24000
Peasroncreek-Typic Udifluvents-Marblecreek families, complex, narrow valley bottoms and toeslopes2lfx511828507762lfx5id60120021:24000
Glaciercreek-Typic Udifluvents-Marblecreek families, complex, granitic alluvial substratum, narrow valley bottoms and toeslopes2lfx86128507782lfx8id60120021:24000
Peasroncreek-Typic Udifluvents-Marblecreek families, complex, narrow valley bottoms and toeslopes2lfx515028508202lfx5id60419811:24000
Pearsoncreek-Marblecreek-Newbell families, complex, glaciated stream breaklands, metasedimentary belt geology2lfxz3728508232lfxzid60419811:24000
Pearsoncreek-Marblecreek-Newbell families, complex, glaciated stream breaklands, metasedimentary belt geology, rain-on-snow2lfy01029367712lfy0id60419811:24000
Pearsoncreek-Marblecreek families, complex, alluvial fans on glaciated landscapes2lfy3728508252lfy3id60419811:24000
Bouldercreek-Marblecreek association, 35 to 65 percent slopes154471015338054lrid60819941:24000
Marblecreek-Rock outcrop complex, 35 to 75 percent slopes65602215348154q0id60819941:24000
Bouldercreek-Marblecreek association, 15 to 35 percent slopes14326915337054lfid60819941:24000
Bouldercreek, high precipitation-Marblecreek association, 25 to 65 percent slopes16244215339054m2id60819941:24000
Bouldercreek, high precipitation-Marblecreek association, 25 to 65 percent slopes26230977558054m2id61220031:24000
Pearsoncreek-Marblecreek-Newbell families, complex, glaciated stream breaklands, metasedimentary belt geology1062236123966712lfxzid6701:24000
Peasroncreek-Typic Udifluvents-Marblecreek families, complex, narrow valley bottoms and toeslopes1021813623966462lfx5id6701:24000
Glaciercreek-Typic Udifluvents-Marblecreek families, complex, granitic alluvial substratum, narrow valley bottoms and toeslopes103980023966492lfx8id6701:24000
Pearsoncreek-Marblecreek-Newbell families, complex, glaciated stream breaklands, metasedimentary belt geology, rain-on-snow10797823966722lfy0id6701:24000
Pearsoncreek-Marblecreek families, complex, alluvial fans on glaciated landscapes11093623966752lfy3id6701:24000
Marblecreek-Rock outcrop complex, 35 to 75 percent slopes54q0467285099354q0id6701:24000
Bouldercreek-Marblecreek association, 35 to 65 percent slopes54lr336285096154lrid6701:24000
Bouldercreek-Marblecreek association, 15 to 35 percent slopes54lf158285096054lfid6701:24000
Bouldercreek, high precipitation-Marblecreek association, 25 to 65 percent slopes54m28285096254m2id6701:24000
Peasroncreek-Typic Udifluvents-Marblecreek families, complex, narrow valley bottoms and toeslopes2lfx56328509032lfx5wa65119811:24000
Pearsoncreek-Marblecreek-Newbell families, complex, glaciated stream breaklands, metasedimentary belt geology2lfxz428509562lfxzwa65119811:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the MARBLECREEK 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 .