Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the RELYEA soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of RELYEA, 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 RELYEA 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
4489P029888MT077921Relyea6Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties46.7391663,-112.6941681

Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the RELYEA 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 RELYEA 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 RELYEA 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 RELYEA 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 RELYEA 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 RELYEA 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 RELYEA 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 hills figure.

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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 RELYEA, 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

No block diagrams are available.

Map Units

Map units containing RELYEA 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
Garlet-Relyea-Yellowmule families, complex, gentle mountain slopes524V21202404525y5sid75819981:24000
Dryadine, rubbly-Relyea, stony families-Rock outcrop, complex, 20 to 60 percent slopes6269F43431692492wqqdmt60019691:24000
Muggins-Whitore-Relyea families, complex, 4 to 35 percent slopes6268E30931692482w75kmt60019691:24000
Relyea-Torpy-Worock families, complex, landslide deposits702S75761487534zshmt60520071:24000
Daras-Relyea-Torpy families, complex, landslides deposits702T4524628566p32bmt60520071:24000
Garlet-Tenrag-Relyea families, complex, glacial moraines342S385414933450d7mt60520071:24000
Garlet-Relyea-Tenrag families, complex, steep mountain slopes544S35791488904zxxmt60520071:24000
Garlet-Relyea families-Rock outcrop complex, steep mountain slopes544Vr23721488244zvsmt60520071:24000
Garlet-Relyea-Tenrag families, complex, moderately steep mountain slopes533S207614929850c2mt60520071:24000
Garlet-Relyea-Yellowmule families, complex, gentle mountain slopes524V4871489444zznmt60520071:24000
Garlet-Relyea families-Rock outcrop complex, steep mountain slopes544Vr4825153904zvsmt61220111:24000
Garlet-Relyea-Tenrag families, complex, moderately steep mountain slopes533S48259776950c2mt61220111:24000
Garlet-Relyea-Tenrag families, complex, steep mountain slopes544S2325977494zxxmt61220111:24000
Garlet-Tenrag-Relyea families, complex, glacial moraines342S4251183050d7mt61220111:24000
Relyea-Helmville complex, 15 to 35 percent slopes185E6515462655wymt61620031:24000
Relyea-Helmville complex, 15 to 35 percent slopes185E13331442504v37mt62119971:24000
Relyea-Helmville complex, moist, 15 to 35 percent slopes485E2991444494v9nmt62119971:24000
Relyea-Helmville complex, 8 to 15 percent slopes185D2871442494v36mt62119971:24000
Relyea-Helmville complex, 35 to 60 percent slopes185F2071442514v38mt62119971:24000
Relyea-Helmville complex, moist, 8 to 15 percent slopes485D701444484v9mmt62119971:24000
Relyea-Helmville complex, moist, 35 to 60 percent slopes485F141444504v9pmt62119971:24000
Dryadine, rubbly-Relyea, stony families-Rock outcrop, complex, 20 to 60 percent slopes6269F180329804312wqqdmt6321:24000
Muggins-Whitore-Relyea families, complex, 4 to 35 percent slopes6268E54429110522w75kmt6321:24000
Helmville-Relyea-Whitore families, complex, low relief mountain slopes and ridges75CC2149714951150kymt63520061:24000
Relyea-Helmville complex, 15 to 35 percent slopes185E10117029381v51hmt63520061:24000
Garlet-Relyea families-Rock outcrop complex, steep mountain slopes29332517101501vdk4mt63619831:24000
Relyea-Torpy-Worock families, complex, landslide deposits30813917101651vdkmmt63619831:24000
Relyea-Helmville complex, 15 to 35 percent slopes185E16041455814wh5mt64419951:24000
Relyea-Helmville complex, moist, 15 to 35 percent slopes485E3801457664wp4mt64419951:24000
Relyea-Helmville complex, moist, 35 to 60 percent slopes485F3441457674wp5mt64419951:24000
Relyea-Helmville complex, 35 to 60 percent slopes185F1761455824wh6mt64419951:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the RELYEA 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 .