Soil Data Explorer - ROWLEY

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the ROWLEY soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of ROWLEY, 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 ROWLEY were used in the calculation. Source: KSSL snapshot (updated 2020-03-13). 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
104	X53-826-1	S1983IA105014	Rowley	2	Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties	42.1654341,-91.1600073
105	X1914861-2-1	S1959IA191051	Rowley	1	Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties	43.4931747,-91.6607775
105	X65826-1-1	S1962IA065011	Rowley	1	Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties	43.0159343,-91.7591901
105	X65826-1-2	S1962IA065012	Rowley	1	Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties	43.0127574,-91.7437574
105	X22-826-1	S1976IA043006	Rowley	2	Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties	42.7900372,-91.556307
105	X3-826-1	S1987IA005007	Rowley	2	Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties	43.4384287,-91.4521057
n/a	X49-826-1	S1988IA097922	Rowley	2	Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties	n/a

Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the ROWLEY 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 ROWLEY series. Sketches are arranged according to their subgroup-level taxonomic structure. Source: SSURGO snapshot (updated 2024-10-24), parsed OSD records (updated 2024-10-23) and snapshot of SC database (updated 2024-10-23).

Select annual climate data summaries for the ROWLEY 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 2024-10-23).

Geomorphic description summaries for the ROWLEY 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 2024-10-23).

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

Competing Series

Soil series competing with ROWLEY share the same family level classification in Soil Taxonomy. Source: parsed OSD records (updated 2024-10-23) and snapshot of the SC database (updated 2024-10-23).

Select annual climate data summaries for the ROWLEY 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 2024-10-23).

Geomorphic description summaries for the ROWLEY 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 2024-10-23).

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

Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with ROWLEY, 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 2024-10-23).

Block Diagrams

Click a link below to display the diagram. Note that these diagrams may be from multiple survey areas.

1. WI-2012-03-23-02 | Iowa County - July 1962

   Two landscapes of terrace soils showing the relationship of the major soils. The upper illustration shows silty soils, and the lower one, sandy soils. By Soil Survey Division, University of Wisconsin (Soil Survey of Iowa County, WI; 1962).

Map Units

Map units containing ROWLEY 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
Rowley silt loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes	826	198	402535	2ysc2	ia005	1992	1:15840
Rowley silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes	826	397	1895241	21m4t	ia031	2008	1:12000
Rowley silt loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes	826	563	404314	2ysc2	ia043	1979	1:15840
Rowley silt loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes	826	1088	405090	2ysc2	ia055	1984	1:15840
Rowley silt loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes	826	471	407565	2ysc2	ia097	1988	1:15840
Rowley silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes	826	930	408061	fpm8	ia103	1979	1:15840
Rowley-Urban land complex, 0 to 2 % slopes	4826	41	2606472	2qcrq	ia113	1970	1:15840
Rowley silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes	826	3726	408830	fqf2	ia115	1984	1:15840
Rowley silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes	826	3704	410035	frny	ia139	1986	1:15840
Rowley silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes	826	2486	411066	fsr6	ia163	1989	1:15840
Rowley silt loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes	328A	918	1857573	2ysc2	wi045	1969	1:12000
Rowley silt loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes	328A	438	2501420	2ysc2	wi053	1994	1:12000
Rowley silt loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes	328A	546	424858	2ysc2	wi065	1964	1:15840
Rowley silt loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes	328A	1682	423203	2ysc2	wi111	1977	1:15840
Rowley silt loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes	328A	464	2683470	2ysc2	wi121	1969	1:12000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the ROWLEY 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 2024-10-30).