Soil Data Explorer - MOLLET

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the MOLLET soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of MOLLET, 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 MOLLET were used in the calculation. Source: KSSL snapshot (updated 2020-03-13). Methods used to assemble the KSSL snapshot used by SoilWeb / SDE

There are insufficient data to create the lab data summary figure.

Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the MOLLET 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 MOLLET series. Sketches are arranged according to their subgroup-level taxonomic structure. Source: SSURGO snapshot (updated 2024-02-21), parsed OSD records (updated 2023-10-02) and snapshot of SC database (updated 2023-10-02).

Select annual climate data summaries for the MOLLET 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 MOLLET 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 MOLLET share the same family level classification in Soil Taxonomy. Source: parsed OSD records (updated 2023-10-02) and snapshot of the SC database (updated 2023-10-02).

Select annual climate data summaries for the MOLLET 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 MOLLET 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 flats position figure.

Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with MOLLET, 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 MOLLET 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
Redchief-Mollet complex, 15 to 35 percent slopes	145E	335	1859569	20f13	mt605	2007	1:24000
Mollet loam, 8 to 15 percent slopes	48D	49	1859549	20f0g	mt605	2007	1:24000
Mollet loam, 2 to 8 percent slopes	48C	29	1859548	20f0f	mt605	2007	1:24000
Mollet loam, 8 to 15 percent slopes	48D	1643	154823	5639	mt616	2003	1:24000
Redchief-Mollet complex, 15 to 35 percent slopes	145E	1567	154593	55vw	mt616	2003	1:24000
Redchief-Mollet complex, 8 to 15 percent slopes	145D	905	154592	55vv	mt616	2003	1:24000
Quigg-Mollet complex, 2 to 8 percent slopes	430C	892	154780	561x	mt616	2003	1:24000
Mollet loam, 2 to 8 percent slopes	48C	668	154822	5638	mt616	2003	1:24000
Quigg-Mollet complex, 8 to 15 percent slopes	430D	533	154781	561y	mt616	2003	1:24000
Mollet cobbly loam, 8 to 15 percent slopes	148D	416	154597	55w0	mt616	2003	1:24000
Redchief-Mollet complex, 4 to 8 percent slopes	145C	398	154591	55vt	mt616	2003	1:24000
Mollet cobbly loam, 2 to 8 percent slopes	148C	211	154596	55vz	mt616	2003	1:24000
Redchief-Mollet bouldery loams, 4 to 15 percent slopes	245D	137	154660	55y1	mt616	2003	1:24000
Quigg-Mollet complex, 15 to 35 percent slopes	430E	109	154782	561z	mt616	2003	1:24000
Mollet loam, 15 to 35 percent slopes	48E	24	154824	563b	mt616	2003	1:24000
Redchief-Mollet complex, 8 to 15 percent slopes	145D	819	144213	4v21	mt621	1997	1:24000
Redchief-Mollet complex, 15 to 35 percent slopes	145E	232	144214	4v22	mt621	1997	1:24000
Redchief-Mollet complex, 4 to 8 percent slopes	145C	211	144212	4v20	mt621	1997	1:24000
Mollet loam, 4 to 15 percent slopes	48D	157	144456	4v9w	mt621	1997	1:24000
Redchief-Mollet complex, 35 to 60 percent slopes	145F	35	144215	4v23	mt621	1997	1:24000
Mollet, very stony-Bowen, stony families-Rock outcrop complex, 1 to 8 percent slopes	2150C	1407	2724641	2sh81	mt632		1:24000
Mollet-Redchief, stony families, complex, 1 to 8 percent slopes	1151C	1155	2724634	2sh7t	mt632		1:24000
Mollet-Sebud families, complex, 4 to 25 percent slopes	3151D	910	2724642	2sh82	mt632		1:24000
Mollet-Adel complex, 8 to 35 percent slopes	270E	601	2392799	2l9x2	mt632		1:24000
Redchief-Mollet-Sebud families, complex, high relief mountain slopes and ridges	71UHD	638	149507	50kt	mt635	2006	1:24000
Redchief-Mollet complex, 15 to 35 percent slopes	145E	224	1702937	1v51g	mt635	2006	1:24000
Redchief-Mollet complex, 8 to 15 percent slopes	145D	57	1702936	1v51f	mt635	2006	1:24000
Redchief-Mollet complex, 4 to 8 percent slopes	145C	56	1702935	1v51d	mt635	2006	1:24000
Mollet-Adel complex, 8 to 35 percent slopes	270E	1443	814093	wb42	mt637	2014	1:24000
Mollet loam, 4 to 15 percent slopes	48D	2188	145775	4wpf	mt644	1995	1:24000
Mollet loam, 15 to 35 percent slopes	48E	136	145776	4wpg	mt644	1995	1:24000
Copenhaver-Mollet-Tophat complex, 4 to 60% slopes	5508E	7938	156473	57tj	mt669		1:24000
Rocko-Danaher-Mollet loams, 4 to 35 percent slopes	5528E	2088	699257	rgmp	mt669		1:24000
Zade-Mollet, complex, stony, 15 to 45 percent slopes	5638F	909	699345	rgqj	mt669		1:24000
Mollet-Redchief, clay loams, cool, 0 to 8 percent slopes	52B	596	156819	585p	mt669		1:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the MOLLET 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).