Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the SHELLBLUFF soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of SHELLBLUFF, 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 SHELLBLUFF 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
13781P019381GA033001Shellbluff7Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties33.1790428,-81.7726135

Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the SHELLBLUFF 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 SHELLBLUFF 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 SHELLBLUFF 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 SHELLBLUFF 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 mountains figure.

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Competing Series

Soil series competing with SHELLBLUFF 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 SHELLBLUFF series and competing. Series are sorted according to hierarchical clustering of median values. Source: SSURGO map unit geometry and 1981-2010, 800m PRISM data .

There are insufficient data to create the annual climate figure.

Geomorphic description summaries for the SHELLBLUFF 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 .

There are insufficient data to create the 2D hillslope position figure.

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

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

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 SHELLBLUFF, 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

No block diagrams are available.

Map Units

Map units containing SHELLBLUFF 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
Shellbluff loam, 0 to 2 slopes, frequently floodedShA1517189573621mnsal03720061:24000
Tawcaw-Shellbluff associationTA5358324606bws5ga03319821:20000
Shellbluff silt loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes, occasionally floodedShA17830210902728sm4ga12920071:12000
Shellbluff loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, occasionally floodedSh1701269784842ga15919971:24000
Shellbluff silt loam, occasionally floodedSh362012656547prga63019951:20000
Shellbluff silt loam, occasionally floodedSh4480127120488nga64519951:12000
Shellbluff silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, occasionally floodedSeA6360562868lwq1ga64820011:12000
Shellbluff loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, occasionally floodedShA20841145583v6fnc00719991:24000
Congaree (Shellbluff) silt loamCn21111015548132rmnc06519761:20000
Shellbluff silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, occasionally floodedShA349922335262dz57nc12320071:24000
Shellbluff silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, ocassionally floodedShA3891172813y18nc15119981:24000
Shellbluff silty clay loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, frequently floodedShA3469639540pghbsc07120051:24000
Shellbluff silty clay loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, occasionally flooded15A86614595401kzrysc07120051:24000
Tawcaw-Shellbluff-Mullers complex, 0 to 2 percent slopes, frequently floodedTcA1587524860152pfx1sc08519691:20000
Shellbluff-Tawcaw complex, 0 to 2 percent slopes, frequently floodedShA362224859982pfwhsc08519691:20000
Shellbluff silty clay loamSh78991317744f3ssc61519811:20000
Shellbluff loam, frequently floodedSh19671313644dpksc69619881:15840

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the SHELLBLUFF 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 .