Soil Data Explorer - SADDLE

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the SADDLE soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of SADDLE, 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 SADDLE 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 SADDLE 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 SADDLE 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 SADDLE 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 SADDLE 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).

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Competing Series

Soil series competing with SADDLE 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 SADDLE 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 SADDLE 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 flats position figure.

Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with SADDLE, 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 SADDLE 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
Muff-Effington-Saddle complex, 0 to 6 percent slopes	5102		3358307	2z1y6	wy043	1976	1:24000
Saddle-Frisite complex, 4 to 15 percent slopes	5531		3356656	2z9gy	wy043	1976	1:24000
Muff-Saddle-Birdsley-like complex, 1 to 8 percent slopes	5104		3253262	2z9gw	wy603		1:24000
Muff-Effington-Saddle complex, 0 to 6 percent slopes	5102		3253312	2z1y6	wy603		1:24000
Saddle-Neiber complex, 1 to 6 percent slopes	5103		3253313	2z1y5	wy603		1:24000
Saddle-Frisite complex, 4 to 15 percent slopes	5331		3253316	2z9gy	wy603		1:24000
Effington-Saddle-Chipeta-like complex, 1 to 25 percent slopes	5339		3253318	2z9gx	wy603		1:24000
Neiberger-Saddle-Griffy complex, 1 to 10 percent slopes	5218		3170881	2y62y	wy603		1:24000
Saddle-Oceanet-like-Rairdent-like complex, 4 to 12 percent slopes	5220		3170882	2y4yt	wy603		1:24000
Saddle sandy clay loam, 3 to 10 percent slopes	SaC	4438	157388	58s1	wy613	1969	1:20000
Saddle sandy clay loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes	SaA	1074	157387	58s0	wy613	1969	1:20000
Saddle-Griffy association, rolling	270	7248	502406	jvsn	wy625	1985	1:24000
Muff-Saddle-Birdsley-like complex, 1 to 8 percent slopes	5104		3195832	2z9gw	wy629		1:24000
Saddle-Oceanet-like-Rairdent-like complex, 4 to 12 percent slopes	5220		2911971	2y4yt	wy629		1:24000
Neiberger-Saddle-Griffy complex, 1 to 10 percent slopes	5218		2969117	2y62y	wy629		1:24000
Saddle-Neiber complex, 1 to 6 percent slopes	5103		3170898	2z1y5	wy629		1:24000
Muff-Effington-Saddle complex, 0 to 6 percent slopes	5102		3170899	2z1y6	wy629		1:24000
Effington-Saddle-Chipeta-like complex, 1 to 25 percent slopes	5339		3195833	2z9gx	wy629		1:24000
Saddle-Frisite complex, 4 to 15 percent slopes	5331		3195834	2z9gy	wy629		1:24000
Griffy-Saddle-Wallson complex, 1 to 8 percent slopes	003	50822	157420	58t2	wy647		1:24000
Saddle-Griffy sandy loams, 3 to 15 percent slopes	065	39804	157576	58z3	wy647		1:24000
Griffy-Saddle-Sweatlodge complex, 0 to 20 percent slopes	066	9435	157575	58z2	wy647		1:24000
Griffy-Saddle-Wallson association, undulating	154	104483	503019	jwff	wy713	1986	1:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the SADDLE 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).