Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

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

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Pedons used in the lab summary:

MLRALab IDPedon IDTaxonnameCINSSL / NASIS ReportsLink To SoilWeb GMap
91AUMN1685S1973MN1451685Pomroy3Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties45.6134491,-94.2074203

Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the POMROY 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 POMROY 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 POMROY 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 POMROY 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 mountains figure.

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Competing Series

Soil series competing with POMROY 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 POMROY 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 POMROY 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 mountains figure.

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

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Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with POMROY, 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. MN-2010-09-08-05 | Cass County - 1997

    Typical pattern of soils and parent material in the Wabedo-Flak-Nokay general soil map unit (Soil Survey of Cass County, Minnesota; 1997).

Map Units

Map units containing POMROY 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
Pomroy loamy fine sand, 6 to 12 percent slopes119C519432812gjcpmn00119961:20000
Pomroy loamy fine sand, 6 to 12 percent slopesC53C284733190sly9mn00920071:12000
Pomroy loamy sand, 3 to 8 percent slopes119B10518397696fbtxmn02119931:20000
Pomroy loamy sand, 3 to 8 percent slopes, very stony750B3015397768fbx7mn02119931:20000
Pomroy loamy sand, 8 to 15 percent slopes119C1562397697fbtymn02119931:20000
Pomroy loamy sand, 8 to 15 percent slopes, very stony750C647397769fbx8mn02119931:20000
Pomroy loamy fine sand, 1 to 6 percent slopes119B2098396542f9mpmn02519901:15840
Pomroy loamy fine sand, 6 to 12 percent slopes119C249396543f9mqmn02519901:15840
Pomroy-Oesterle-Scott Lake complex, Stewart Lake Moraine, 2 to 8 percent slopes2-33B877627327102slp9mn03520091:24000
Pomroy loamy sand, Rainy till phase, 1 to 6 percent slopesC53B339427326732slmvmn03520091:24000
Pomroy-Bushville complex, Stewart Lake Moraine, 1 to 6 percent slopes2-31B207627327082slp7mn03520091:24000
Pomroy loamy sand, Rainy till phase, 6 to 15 percent slopes3-9D28127327232slprmn03520091:24000
Pomroy loamy fine sand, 2 to 6 percent slopesC53B64716734941t5dpmn06520061:12000
Pomroy loamy fine sand, 6 to 12 percent slopesC53C4216734951t5dqmn06520061:12000
Pomroy loamy fine sand, 2 to 6 percent slopesC53B14416763951t8f8mn09520061:12000
Pomroy loamy fine sand, 6 to 12 percent slopesC53C616763961t8f9mn09520061:12000
Pomroy loamy fine sand, 1 to 6 percent slopes119B28262400337ffl3mn09719871:20000
Pomroy loamy fine sand, 6 to 12 percent slopes119C3217400338ffl4mn09719871:20000
Pomroy fine sand, 1 to 6 percent slopes119B1387428074gcfvmn14519801:15840
Pomroy-Fremstadt-Fremstadt, stony, complex, 1 to 6 percent slopes3510B7048448647h1vhwi01320041:12000
Pomroy-Fremstadt-Fremstadt, stony, complex, 6 to 15 percent slopes3510C4121448653h1vpwi01320041:12000
Fremstadt, stony-Pomroy complex, 15 to 30 percent slopes669D3032448654h1vqwi01320041:12000
Pomroy-Fremstadt-Fremstadt, stony complex, 6 to 15 percent slopes3510C838781302v709wi03120051:12000
Pomroy-Fremstadt-Fremstadt, stony complex, 1 to 6 percent slopes3510B614781301v708wi03120051:12000
Fremstadt, stony-Pomroy complex, 15 to 30 percent slopes669D109781303v70bwi03120051:12000
Fremstadt, stony-Pomroy complex, 15 to 30 percent slopes669D23024870602pgzrwi09519781:15840
Pomroy-Fremstadt complex, 1 to 6 percent slopes, stony3510B7524276442mh53wi09519781:15840
Pomroy-Fremstadt complex, 6 to 15 percent slopes, stony3510C824276482mh57wi09519781:15840

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the POMROY 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 .