Soil Data Explorer - MIKIM

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the MIKIM soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of MIKIM, 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 MIKIM were used in the calculation. Source: KSSL snapshot (updated 2020-03-18). Methods used to assemble the KSSL snapshot used by SoilWeb / SDE

Pedons used in the lab summary:

MLRA	Lab ID	Pedon ID	Taxonname	CI	NSSL / NASIS Reports	Link To SoilWeb GMap
36	83P0803	83CO083001	Mikim	8	Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties	37.245,-108.653

Water Balance

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

Sibling Summary

Siblings are those soil series that occur together in map units, in this case with the MIKIM series. Sketches are arranged according to their subgroup-level taxonomic structure. Source: SSURGO snapshot (updated 2024-02-21), parsed OSD records (updated 2023-10-06) and snapshot of SC database (updated 2023-10-02).

Select annual climate data summaries for the MIKIM 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 2023-10-09).

Geomorphic description summaries for the MIKIM 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 2023-10-04).

Competing Series

Soil series competing with MIKIM share the same family level classification in Soil Taxonomy. Source: parsed OSD records (updated 2023-10-06) and snapshot of the SC database (updated 2023-10-02).

Select annual climate data summaries for the MIKIM 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 2023-10-09).

Geomorphic description summaries for the MIKIM 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 2023-10-04).

There are insufficient data to create the 3D mountains figure.

Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with MIKIM, 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 2023-10-02).

Block Diagrams

No block diagrams are available.

Map Units

Map units containing MIKIM 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
Mikim loam, 3 to 12 percent slopes	44	10451	58305	1ynt	co669	1982	1:24000
Mikim loam, 3 to 6 percent slopes	64	1678	59448	2tkxl	co670	2005	1:24000
Mikim clay loam, 1 to 3 percent slopes	63	288	59447	2tkxh	co670	2005	1:24000
Mikim clay loam, 1 to 3 percent slopes	73	5404	57700	2tkxh	co671	1997	1:24000
Mikim loam, 3 to 6 percent slopes	75	3973	57702	2tkxl	co671	1997	1:24000
Mikim clay loam, sodic, 0 to 3 percent slopes	74	565	57701	1y1b	co671	1997	1:24000
Mikim loam, 1 to 6 percent slopes	56	6115	502080	jvg4	co675	1986	1:24000
Mikim loam, 3 to 15 percent slopes	118	403	928989	105pd	co685	1979	1:24000
Mikim silt loam, sodic, 1 to 4 percent slopes	119	73	928990	105pf	co685	1979	1:24000
Mikim loam, 3 to 15 percent slopes	264	536	629945	p4ht	co686	1992	1:31680
Mikim complex, 1 to 4 percent slopes	237	147	629841	p4dg	co686	1992	1:31680
Mikim silt loam, sodic, 1 to 4 percent slopes	265	26	629961	p4jb	co686	1992	1:31680
Mikim complex, 1 to 4 percent slopes	36	330	506256	jzsv	co692	1998	1:24000
Mikim loam, 1 to 5 percent slopes	259	24243	56867	1x5f	nm682	1985	1:24000
Mikim loam, 3 to 5 percent slopes	MaB	4563	1703762	1v5x2	ut013		1:24000
Mikim loam, 3 to 15 percent slopes	137	12280	505403	jyxb	ut047	1999	1:24000
Walknolls-Mikim association, 2 to 50 percent slopes	263	10935	505543	jz1v	ut047	1999	1:24000
Bullpen-Mikim complex, 2 to 25 percent slopes	31	4748	505571	jz2r	ut047	1999	1:24000
Mikim silt loam, sodic, 1 to 4 percent slopes	139	4681	505405	jyxd	ut047	1999	1:24000
Mikim complex, 1 to 4 percent slopes	135	3275	505401	jyx8	ut047	1999	1:24000
Mikim loam, 1 to 3 percent slopes	136	1919	505402	jyx9	ut047	1999	1:24000
Mikim silt loam, 2 to 4 percent slopes	138	497	505404	jyxc	ut047	1999	1:24000
Mikim-Hickerson association, 1 to 4 percent slopes	140	210	505407	jyxg	ut047	1999	1:24000
Mikim sandy loam, 2 to 8 percent slopes	88	4030	504486	jxyr	ut636	1984	1:24000
Mikim clay loam, dry, 1 to 2 percent slopes	91	3263	504490	jxyw	ut636	1984	1:24000
Mikim clay loam, dry, 2 to 5 percent slopes	92	2645	504491	jxyx	ut636	1984	1:24000
Mikim loam, dry, 1 to 2 percent slopes	89	1660	504487	jxys	ut636	1984	1:24000
Mikim loam, 2 to 4 percent slopes	90	593	504489	jxyv	ut636	1984	1:24000
Mikim family, 2 to 5 percent slopes	477	783	512515	k69r	ut646		1:24000
Mikim-Mivida, moist, complex, 3 to 15 percent slopes	41	132	2507454	2q70q	ut685	1990	1:24000
Skyvillage-Mikim-Badland, Kaiparowits Formation, complex, 2 to 15 percent slopes	5127	42220	59793	206t	ut686	2004	1:24000
Elias-Mikim complex, 1 to 7 percent slopes	5143	1137	59723	204k	ut686	2004	1:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the MIKIM 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 2023-10-04).