Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the POALL soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of POALL, 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 POALL 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 POALL 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 POALL 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 POALL 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 POALL 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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Competing Series

Soil series competing with POALL 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 POALL series and competing. 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 POALL 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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Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with POALL, 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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Map Units

Map units containing POALL 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
Poall very fine sandy loam, 12 to 40 percent south slopes124D99456209022lxor60419881:24000
Poall very fine sandy loam, 2 to 12 percent slopes122C57656208822lvor60419881:24000
Poall very fine sandy loam, 12 to 40 percent north slopes123D32956208922lwor60419881:24000
Poall-Xeric Torriorthents complex, 12 to 40 percent south slopes125D8416209122lyor60419881:24000
Poall-Gumble complex, 2 to 20 percent slopes26211114490668jgl0or62819971:24000
Poall silt loam, 2 to 20 percent slopes2618407490667jgkzor62819971:24000
Waspo-Poall complex, 2 to 8 percent slopes353554490784jgpror62819971:24000
Poall-Haar-Hanning complex, 2 to 50 percent slopes38162680624257302mf5cor6451:24000
Poall very fine sandy loam, 4 to 15 percent slopes29422136424822052p9y4or6451:24000
Poall-Risley-Gumble complex, 2 to 15 percent slopes70291703327222782sf3dor6451:24000
Farmell-Poall complex, 2 to 15 percent slopes2938901124259402mfd4or6451:24000
Poall-Tenmile complex, 4 to 25 percent slopes3829763824822062p9y5or6451:24000
Power-Poall complex, 2 to 25 percent slopes4015578330270312xf35or6451:24000
Poall very fine sandy loam, 25 to 60 percent north slopes3803306824256222mf1wor6451:24000
Poall-Beirman-Farmell complex, 0 to 8 percent slopes2945219724257282mf59or6451:24000
Poall very fine sandy loam, 0 to 4 percent slopes2946203024258852mfbcor6451:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the POALL 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 .