Soil Data Explorer - NUNNSTON

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the NUNNSTON soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of NUNNSTON, 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 NUNNSTON 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
49	01N0942	S2001WY009003	Nunnston	5	Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties	42.6809998,-105.9397507

Water Balance

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

Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with NUNNSTON, 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

Click a link below to display the diagram. Note that these diagrams may be from multiple survey areas.

1. WY-2012-03-23-09 | Natrona County Area - 1997

   Diagram of the Boettcher-Brownsto complex, 10 to 30 percent slopes, on hills. Nunnston loam, 2 to 15 percent slopes, is in the draws (Soil Survey of Natrona County Area, WY; 1997).

Map Units

Map units containing NUNNSTON 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
Nunnston clay loam, 6 to 10 percent slopes	Q0834C	1044	2439268	2mw82	wy011	1978	1:24000
Nunnston loam, thick surface, 1 to 6 percent slopes	Q0836B	985	2439269	2mw83	wy011	1978	1:24000
Nunnston clay loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes	Q0834B	733	2439267	2mw81	wy011	1978	1:24000
Nunnston, thick surface-Cordeston loams, 1 to 6 percent slopes	Q0913B	338	2441286	2myc5	wy011	1978	1:24000
Nunnston loam, thick surface, 6 to 10 percent slopes	Q0836C	200	2439270	2mw84	wy011	1978	1:24000
Nunnston loam, moderately deep, 1 to 6 percent slopes	Q0848B	194	2440034	2mx1s	wy011	1978	1:24000
Nunnston clay loam, 0 to 6 percent slopes	P290B	138	2768177	2rvfp	wy011	1978	1:24000
Nunnston loam, thick surface, 0 to 3 percent slopes	P292A	25	2768178	2rvfq	wy011	1978	1:24000
Nunnston-Nunnston, moderately deep clay loams, 3 to 10 percent slopes	P294C	20	2768179	2rvft	wy011	1978	1:24000
Nunnston-Nunnston, moderately deep clay loams, 10 to 20 percent slopes	P294D	4638	2745995	2rvfv	wy045	1984	1:24000
Nunnston clay loam, 0 to 6 percent slopes	P290B	753	2745993	2rvfp	wy045	1984	1:24000
Nunnston-Nunnston, moderately deep clay loams, 3 to 10 percent slopes	P294C	711	2745994	2rvft	wy045	1984	1:24000
Nunnston loam, thick surface, 0 to 3 percent slopes	P292A	458	2745996	2rvfq	wy045	1984	1:24000
Nunnston loam, 2 to 15 percent slopes	202	14366	1669715	2wlry	wy609	2006	1:24000
Nunnston loam, 2 to 15 percent slopes	225	32129	502341	2wlry	wy625	1985	1:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the NUNNSTON 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).