Soil Data Explorer - RAWLES

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the RAWLES soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of RAWLES, 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 RAWLES 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
105	UMN1207	S1970MN0551207	Rawles	3	Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties	43.7803879,-91.4452057
105	UMN1208	S1970MN0551208	Rawles	3	Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties	43.7759628,-91.4927597
105	UMN1209	S1970MN0551209	Rawles	3	Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties	43.7695122,-91.335907
105	UMN2345	S1975MN055072	Rawles	3	Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties	43.6878861,-91.6847324
105	UMN2360	S1976MN055041	Rawles	3	Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties	43.7893724,-91.6890613
105	X3-670-1	S1985IA005012	Rawles	3	Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties	43.4273792,-91.5103586
105	X3-670-3	S1986IA005142	Rawles	3	Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties	43.4534565,-91.6029451
107B	99P0333	S1997IA047007	Rawles	5	Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties	41.9637527,-95.6666183
107B	98P0334	S1998IA193005	Rawles	5	Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties	42.4375267,-95.8418045

Water Balance

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

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

Competing Series

Soil series competing with RAWLES 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 RAWLES 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).

There are insufficient data to create the annual climate figure.

Geomorphic description summaries for the RAWLES 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 2D hillslope position figure.

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

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 RAWLES, 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. IA-2010-09-02-25 | Monona County - 2003

   Typical pattern of soils and parent material in the Kennebec-Colo-McPaul association (Soil Survey of Monona County, Iowa; 2003).

2. IA-2010-09-03-08 | Woodbury - 2006

   Typical pattern of soils and underlying material in the Monona-Ida-Judson association (Soil Survey of Woodbury County, Iowa; 2006).

Map Units

Map units containing RAWLES 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
Rawles silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, occasionally flooded	670	634	399847	ff29	ia047	2004	1:12000
Rawles silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes	670	707	409590	fr6l	ia129	1979	1:15840
Rawles silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, occasionally flooded	670	6482	447386	h0jt	ia133	1994	1:12000
Rawles silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes	670	814	410510	fs58	ia155	1986	1:15840
Rawles silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes	670	873	411247	fsy1	ia167	1987	1:15840
Rawles silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, occasionally flooded	670	16985	401952	fh86	ia193	2003	1:12000
Napier-Rawles complex, 2 to 5 percent slopes	47B	9602	401924	fh79	ia193	2003	1:12000
Judson-Rawles complex, 0 to 5 percent slopes	847B	3617	402138	2zv9g	ia193	2003	1:12000
Rawles-Urban land complex, 0 to 2 percent slopes	4670	1363	402141	fhg9	ia193	2003	1:12000
Rawles silt loam, occasionally flooded	608	2762	398317	fcgy	mn055	1981	1:15840
Rawles silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, occasionally flooded	N665A	2519	2230461	2dvzc	mn157	2008	1:12000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the RAWLES 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).