Soil Data Explorer - SCHALLER

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the SCHALLER soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of SCHALLER, 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 SCHALLER were used in the calculation. Source: KSSL snapshot (updated 2020-03-13). 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 SCHALLER 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 SCHALLER 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 SCHALLER 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 SCHALLER 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).

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Competing Series

Soil series competing with SCHALLER 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 SCHALLER 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 SCHALLER 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 SCHALLER, 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. ND-2012-02-08-08 | Grant County - September 1988

   Typical pattern of soils and parent material in the Ruso-Straw-Bowdle association (Soil Survey of Grant County, North Dakota; September 1988).

Map Units

Map units containing SCHALLER 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
Manning-Schaller-Wabek complex, 6 to 35 percent slopes	E4561F	145	2525773	2r4ff	nd001	1983	1:20000
Manning-Schaller-Wabek complex, 6 to 35 percent slopes	E4561F	2265	2707110	2r4ff	nd007	1998	1:24000
Manning-Schaller-Wabek complex, 6 to 35 percent slopes	E4561F	2966	2563580	2r4ff	nd011	1969	1:20000
Manning-Schaller-Wabek complex, 6 to 35 percent slopes	E4561F	3958	2707258	2r4ff	nd025	1981	1:20000
Manning-Schaller-Wabek complex, 6 to 35 percent slopes	E4561F	18026	2525893	2r4ff	nd037	1985	1:20000
Manning-Schaller-Wabek complex, 6 to 35 percent slopes	E4561F	6875	2525824	2r4ff	nd041	1986	1:20000
Schaller loamy sand, 0 to 6 percent slopes	C860B	3461	2566529	2pwfb	nd047	1992	1:20000
Schaller loamy sand, 6 to 15 percent slopes	C860D	3321	2596974	2q538	nd047	1992	1:20000
Schaller loamy sand, 6 to 15 percent slopes	C860D	2659	2596863	2q538	nd051	1992	1:24000
Schaller loamy sand, 0 to 6 percent slopes	C860B	1309	2566618	2pwfb	nd051	1992	1:24000
Manning-Schaller-Wabek complex, 6 to 35 percent slopes	E4561F	4383	2699359	2r4ff	nd053	2003	1:24000
Ruso-Schaller complex, 6 to 9 percent slopes	C855C	1429	2566706	2q537	nd055	1974	1:20000
Manning-Schaller-Wabek complex, 6 to 35 percent slopes	E4561F	86	2759683	2r4ff	nd059	1998	1:20000
Manning-Schaller-Wabek complex, 6 to 35 percent slopes	E4561F	6924	2699106	2r4ff	nd085	1992	1:24000
Manning-Schaller-Wabek complex, 6 to 35 percent slopes	E4561F	9079	2715868	2r4ff	nd087	1974	1:20000
Manning-Schaller-Wabek complex, 6 to 35 percent slopes	E4561F	8255	2716021	2r4ff	nd089	1965	1:20000
Schaller loamy sand, 0 to 6 percent slopes	C860B	687	2567042	2pwfb	nd105	1993	1:24000
Schaller loamy sand, 0 to 6 percent slopes	2261	416	339047	cct0	nd105	1993	1:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the SCHALLER 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).