Soil Data Explorer - PYRITIES

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

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

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

There are insufficient data to create the 3D flats position figure.

Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with PYRITIES, 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 PYRITIES 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
Pyrities loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes	450B	205	3395926	qwzc	ct601	2003	1:12000
Pyrities loam, 8 to 15 percent slopes, very stony	451C	84	3395925	qwzb	ct601	2003	1:12000
Pyrities loam, 8 to 15 percent slopes	450C	83	3395936	qwzr	ct601	2003	1:12000
Pyrities loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes, very stony	451B	16	3395935	qwzq	ct601	2003	1:12000
Pyrities loam, 15 to 25 percent slopes	450D	8	3395937	qwzs	ct601	2003	1:12000
Pyrities loam, 15 to 25 percent slopes, very stony	451D	6	3395924	qwz9	ct601	2003	1:12000
Pyrities-Nehasne complex, 15 to 35 percent slopes, rocky, very stony	PwD	3426	319745	bqqc	ny031	2007	1:24000
Pyrities fine sandy loam, 8 to 15 percent slopes	PtC	3123	319284	bq7h	ny031	2007	1:24000
Pyrities fine sandy loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes	PtB	2540	319283	bq7g	ny031	2007	1:24000
Pyrities fine sandy loam, 15 to 35 percent slopes, very stony	PuD	1925	319740	bqq6	ny031	2007	1:24000
Pyrities-Nehasne complex, 8 to 15 percent slopes, rocky, very stony	PwC	1803	319744	bqqb	ny031	2007	1:24000
Pyrities fine sandy loam, 8 to 15 percent slopes, very stony	PuC	1781	319739	bqq5	ny031	2007	1:24000
Pyrities-Nehasne complex, 8 to 15 percent slopes, rocky	PyC	1761	319289	bq7n	ny031	2007	1:24000
Pyrities fine sandy loam, 15 to 25 percent slopes	PtD	1115	319285	bq7j	ny031	2007	1:24000
Pyrities-Nehasne complex, 15 to 25 percent slopes, rocky	PyD	528	319290	bq7p	ny031	2007	1:24000
Pyrities fine sandy loam, 15 to 25 percent slopes, very stony	PxD	6	2679505	9wz4	ny033	2018	1:24000
Pyrities-Nehasne complex, 3 to 15 percent slopes, rocky , very bouldery	PwC	679	2753725	2spmp	ny049	2018	1:24000
Pyrities-Nehasne complex, 15 to 25 percent slopes, rocky , very bouldery	PwD	138	2753726	2spmn	ny049	2018	1:24000
Pyrities loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes	119B	5655	293320	9v6y	ny065	1993	1:24000
Pyrities loam, 8 to 15 percent slopes	119C	4086	293321	9v6z	ny065	1993	1:24000
Pyrities loam, 15 to 25 percent slopes	119D	1864	293322	9v70	ny065	1993	1:24000
Pyrities loam, rolling, very bouldery	120C	1348	293324	9v72	ny065	1993	1:24000
Pyrities loam, 25 to 45 percent slopes	119E	574	293323	9v71	ny065	1993	1:24000
Kalurah and Pyrities soils, 0 to 8 percent slopes, very stony	KbB	14319	294962	9wxx	ny089	1990	1:24000
Pyrities fine sandy loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes	PvB	8596	294998	9wz2	ny089	1990	1:24000
Pyrities fine sandy loam, 15 to 25 percent slopes, very stony	PxD	8153	295000	9wz4	ny089	1990	1:24000
Pyrities and Kalurah soils, 8 to 15 percent slopes, very stony	PzC	3717	295003	9wz7	ny089	1990	1:24000
Pyrities fine sandy loam, 8 to 15 percent slopes	PvC	3074	294999	9wz3	ny089	1990	1:24000
Pyrities fine sandy loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes, rocky	PyB	2560	295001	9wz5	ny089	1990	1:24000
Pyrities fine sandy loam, 8 to 15 percent slopes, rocky	PyC	1906	295002	9wz6	ny089	1990	1:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the PYRITIES 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).