Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the SAMDAY soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of SAMDAY, 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 SAMDAY were used in the calculation. Source: KSSL snapshot . Methods used to assemble the KSSL snapshot used by SoilWeb / SDE

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Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the SAMDAY 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 SAMDAY 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 SAMDAY 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 SAMDAY 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 SAMDAY 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 SAMDAY 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 SAMDAY 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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Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with SAMDAY, 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

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Map Units

Map units containing SAMDAY 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
Shingle-Badland-Samday complex, 10 to 30 percent slopes189949303496912vhzwwy02719931:24000
Samday-Savageton-Bahl association, 3 to 10 percent slopes18512470349683cqw3wy02719931:24000
Samday clay, 3 to 10 percent slopes1833155349679cqvzwy02719931:24000
Samday-Pierre clays, 3 to 30 percent slopes1841108349681cqw1wy02719931:24000
Shingle-Samday-Badland complex, 4 to 50 percent slopes543333566722w7j3wy04319761:24000
Taluce-Shingle-Samday complex, 15 to 50 percent slopes545033566732w7k3wy04319761:24000
Samday-Savageton complex, 6 to 30 percent slopes96472123495052tvvzwy04519841:24000
Orella-Samday-Rock outcrop complex, 3 to 30 percent slopes69460973494752tvvlwy04519841:24000
Shingle-Samday-Rock outcrop complex, hilly10045129349383cqkfwy04519841:24000
Samday-Grummit complex, 2 to 30 percent slopes9517775349504cqpbwy04519841:24000
Samday-Shingle-Worf complex, 3 to 15 percent slopes972948349506cqpdwy04519841:24000
Shingle-Badland-Samday complex, 10 to 30 percent slopes146165614239442vhzwwy04519841:24000
Samday-Shingle-Badland complex, 10 to 45 percent slopes206169753499042v08ywy60519951:24000
Samday-Samday, very shallow-Shingle clay loams, 6 to 40 percent slopes20476853499022yryxwy60519951:24000
Samday-Savageton clay loams, 3 to 15 percent slopes2057108349903cr36wy60519951:24000
Shingle-Badland-Samday complex, 10 to 30 percent slopes2303202516697852vhzwwy60920061:24000
Savageton-Samday complex, 3 to 15 percent slopes227274216697311t1h9wy60920061:24000
Shingle-Badland-Samday complex, 30 to 60 percent slopes23196216697331t1hcwy60920061:24000
Samday-Shingle-Worf, loamy complex, 3 to 15 percent slopes22658516697291t1h7wy60920061:24000
Samday very cobbly clay, 20 to 60 percent slopes22427816697301t1h8wy60920061:24000
Samday-Shingle-Worf complex, 3 to 15 percent slopes22514916698102wxytwy60920061:24000
Taluce-Shingle-Samday complex, 15 to 50 percent slopes545033582872w7k3wy6171:24000
Shingle-Samday-Badland complex, 4 to 50 percent slopes543333582862w7j3wy6171:24000
Samday-Shingle-Badland complex, 10 to 45 percent slopesSDE784563509232v08ywy61919711:24000
Samday-Savageton clay loams, 3 to 15 percent slopes20532817247wfdtwy61919711:24000
Savageton-Samday clay loams, 3 to 15 percent slopes6872723836582wlrrwy61919711:24000
Cadoma-Renohill-Samday clay loams, 3 to 12 percent slopes140401335022182xtvkwy62519851:24000
Shingle-Samday complex, 3 to 45 percent slopes274142655024102yrynwy62519851:24000
Samday very cobbly clay, 20 to 60 percent slopes2729796502408jvsqwy62519851:24000
Savageton-Samday complex, 3 to 15 percent slopes2739295502409jvsrwy62519851:24000
Urban land-Savageton-Samday complex, 4 to 25 percent slopes2972548502433jvtjwy62519851:24000
Shingle-Badland-Samday complex, 10 to 30 percent slopes33258814260902vhzwwy62519851:24000
Cadrina-like, extremely bouldery-Samday-Shingle complex, 6 to 40 percent slopes581831710132zyb1wy6291:24000
Windwhistle-Worf-like-Samday complex, 4 to 30 percent slopes536331710002z210wy6291:24000
Taluce-Shingle-Samday complex, 15 to 50 percent slopes545029119282w7k3wy6291:24000
Shingle-Samday-Badland complex, 4 to 50 percent slopes543329118952w7j3wy6291:24000
Worfka-Samday-Shingle complex, moist, 6 to 30 percent slopes305303093610182yv6zwy63319871:24000
Shingle-Samday clay loams, moist, 3 to 55 percent slopes263171243610462wlrswy63319871:24000
Shingle-Worfka-Samday complex, 6 to 30 percent slopes304116483610192yv70wy63319871:24000
Samday-Gayhart-Hilight clay loams, moist, 2 to 60 percent slopes2449763360586d36twy63319871:24000
Shingle-Samday clay loams, 6 to 60 percent slopes2623428361061d3q4wy63319871:24000
Samday-Shingle-Badland complex, 10 to 45 percent slopes32612843612282v08ywy63319871:24000
Samday-Hilight clay loams, 2 to 45 percent slopes2451119360585d36swy63319871:24000
Samday-Shingle-Badland complex, 10 to 45 percent slopes206200448175762v08ywy70520031:24000
Samday-Samday, very shallow-Shingle clay loams, 6 to 40 percent slopes204130968175752yryxwy70520031:24000
Savageton-Samday clay loams, 3 to 15 percent slopes31375048175772wlrrwy70520031:24000
Shingle-Badland-Samday complex, 10 to 30 percent slopes1311767463515092vhzwwy70919831:24000
Samday-Shingle-Worf complex, 3 to 15 percent slopes129708503515072wxytwy70919831:24000
Orella, dry-Rock outcrop-Samday complex, 3 to 30 percent slopes125168533515032yv7pwy70919831:24000
Samday-Shingle-Badland complex, 10 to 45 percent slopes2083243612802v08ywy70919831:24000
Samday-Shingle-Worf complex, northeast, 3 to 15 percent slopes2441014279011jxvbwy70919831:24000
Samday-Shingle-Badland complex, 10 to 45 percent slopes6841651738139482v08ywy71920131:24000
Savageton-Samday clay loams, 3 to 15 percent slopes6872260714791552wlrrwy71920131:24000
Samday-Samday, very shallow-Shingle clay loams, 6 to 40 percent slopes683141013991422yryxwy71920131:24000
Shingle-Samday clay loams, moist, 3 to 55 percent slopes7858618685742wlrswy71920131:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the SAMDAY 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 .