Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the SHELBURNE soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of SHELBURNE, 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 SHELBURNE 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
14387P058787MA003004Shelburne7Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties42.6205559,-73.1983337
144B99P0557S1999CT005005Shelburne6Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties42.0158195,-73.1650848

Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the SHELBURNE 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 SHELBURNE 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 SHELBURNE 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 SHELBURNE 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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There are insufficient data to create the 3D terrace figure.

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Competing Series

Soil series competing with SHELBURNE 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 SHELBURNE 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 SHELBURNE 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 terrace figure.

There are insufficient data to create the 3D flats position figure.

Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with SHELBURNE, 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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  1. MA-2010-09-07-02 | Hampden and Hampshire Counties, Western Part - 1995

    Pattern of soils and parent material in the Westminster-Millsite general soil map unit (Soil Survey of Hampden and Hampshire Counties, Western Part, Massachusetts; 1995).

  2. MA-2010-09-07-06 | Hampden and Hampshire Counties, Western Part - 1995

    Pattern of soils and parent material in the Ashfield-Shelburne general soil map unit (Soil Survey of Hampden and Hampshire Counties, Western Part, Massachusetts; 1995).

  3. MA-2012-02-02-14 | Hampden and Hampshire Counties, Western Part - December 1995

    Pattern of soils and parent material in the Westminster-Millsite general soil map unit (Soil Survey of Hampden and Hampshire Counties, Western Part, Massachusetts; December 1995).

  4. MA-2012-02-02-15 | Hampden and Hampshire Counties, Western Part - December 1995

    Pattern of soils and parent material in the Ashfield-Shelburne general soil map unit (Soil Survey of Hampden and Hampshire Counties, Western Part, Massachusetts; December 1995).

Map Units

Map units containing SHELBURNE 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
Shelburne fine sandy loam, 8 to 15 percent slopes, very stony425C319333958869lt0ct60120031:12000
Shelburne fine sandy loam, 15 to 35 percent slopes, extremely stony426D161933958879lt1ct60120031:12000
Shelburne fine sandy loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes, very stony425B124733958859lszct60120031:12000
Shelburne fine sandy loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes424B9643395916qwymct60120031:12000
Shelburne fine sandy loam, 8 to 15 percent slopes424C4083395915qwylct60120031:12000
Shelburne fine sandy loam, 15 to 25 percent slopes424D723395914qwykct60120031:12000
Shelburne fine sandy loam, 15 to 25 percent slopes, very stony371D49172790139cbfma01120121:12000
Shelburne fine sandy loam, 8 to 15 percent slopes370C30152790099cb9ma01120121:12000
Shelburne fine sandy loam, 8 to 15 percent slopes, very stony371C30052790129cbdma01120121:12000
Shelburne fine sandy loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes370B24982790089cb8ma01120121:12000
Shelburne fine sandy loam, 25 to 45 percent slopes, very stony371F21502790729cdbma01120121:12000
Shelburne fine sandy loam, 15 to 25 percent slopes370D13702790109cbbma01120121:12000
Shelburne fine sandy loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes, very stony371B8182790119cbcma01120121:12000
Ashfield-Shelburne association, rolling, extremely stony911C1904127766399xwma60819891:25000
Shelburne-Ashfield association, steep, extremely stony920E418427766999y2ma60819891:25000
Shelburne loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes370B72327759899vsma60819891:25000
Shelburne loam, 8 to 15 percent slopes370C67527759999vtma60819891:25000
Ashfield-Shelburne association, rolling, extremely stony911C89190385221x3lma60919801:15840
Shelburne-Ashfield association, steep, extremely stony920E12190385721x3rma60919801:15840
Shelburne fine sandy loam, 15 to 35 percent slopes, very stony22D32672831619hn7vt02720001:20000
Shelburne fine sandy loam, 15 to 25 percent slopes21D23792831579hn3vt02720001:20000
Shelburne fine sandy loam, 8 to 15 percent slopes21C15422831569hn2vt02720001:20000
Shelburne fine sandy loam, 8 to 15 percent slopes, very stony22C8812831609hn6vt02720001:20000
Shelburne fine sandy loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes21B2712831559hn1vt02720001:20000
Shelburne fine sandy loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes, very stony22B1502831599hn5vt02720001:20000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the SHELBURNE 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 .