Soil Data Explorer - SHIRCLIFF

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

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

Pedons used in the lab summary:

MLRA	Lab ID	Pedon ID	Taxonname	CI	NSSL / NASIS Reports	Link To SoilWeb GMap
120B	93P0543	S1993IN123003	Shircliff	6	Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties	38.0744438,-86.4680557

Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the SHIRCLIFF 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 SHIRCLIFF series. Sketches are arranged according to their subgroup-level taxonomic structure. Source: SSURGO snapshot (updated 2024-02-21), parsed OSD records (updated 2023-10-02) and snapshot of SC database (updated 2023-10-02).

Select annual climate data summaries for the SHIRCLIFF 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 SHIRCLIFF 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).

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

Competing Series

Soil series competing with SHIRCLIFF share the same family level classification in Soil Taxonomy. Source: parsed OSD records (updated 2023-10-02) and snapshot of the SC database (updated 2023-10-02).

Select annual climate data summaries for the SHIRCLIFF 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 SHIRCLIFF 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 flats position figure.

Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with SHIRCLIFF, 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

Click a link below to display the diagram. Note that these diagrams may be from multiple survey areas.

1. IN-2010-09-24-20 | Perry County -

   Typical pattern of soils and parent materials of alluvial, stream terrace lacustrine and aeolian landforms adjacent to hills underlain with interbedded shale and limestone in Ohio River Valley (Soil Survey of Perry County, Indiana).

2. IN-2010-09-24-25 | Scott County -

   Typical pattern of soils and parent material in the Haubstadt-Dubois-Peoga association (Soil Survey of Scott County, Indiana).

Map Units

Map units containing SHIRCLIFF 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
Shircliff silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes	SfyA	57	202309	6sj3	in005	2002	1:12000
Shircliff silt loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes	SfyB	1192	210855	72ds	in019	2001	1:12000
Haubstadt-Shircliff silt loams, 6 to 15 percent slopes, eroded	HcdC2	2	613951	nlvw	in019	2001	1:12000
Haubstadt-Shircliff complex, 6 to 15 percent slopes, severely eroded	HceC3	1	613952	nlvx	in019	2001	1:12000
Shircliff silt loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes	SfyB	506	185250	66rt	in043	2000	1:12000
Shircliff silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes	SfyB	2	1859120	20dkm	in061	2007	1:12000
Shircliff silt loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes, eroded	SfyB2	485	1907073	220gh	in071	1985	1:15840
Haubstadt-Shircliff complex, 6 to 15 percent slopes, severely eroded	HeC3	12	975407	11qzr	in077	1982	1:15840
Haubstadt-Shircliff silt loams, 6 to 15 percent slopes, eroded	HeC2	10	975406	11qzq	in077	1982	1:15840
Shircliff silty clay loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes, eroded	SfvB2	974	1652079	1sg3w	in093	1982	1:15840
Shircliff silty clay loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes, eroded	SfvB2	1253	1708164	1vbh2	in101	1984	1:15840
Shircliff silt loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes, eroded	SfyB2	327	166290	5l16	in119	1997	1:12000
Shircliff silt loam, 6 to 12 percent slopes, eroded	SfyC2	149	166291	5l17	in119	1997	1:12000
Shircliff silt loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes, eroded	SfyB2	1315	535899	kzn2	in123	1997	1:12000
Haubstadt-Shircliff complex, 6 to 15 percent slopes, severely eroded	HceC3	1282	165680	5kdj	in143	1995	1:12000
Haubstadt-Shircliff silt loams, 6 to 15 percent slopes, eroded	HcdC2	756	165679	5kdh	in143	1995	1:12000
Shircliff silt loam, 8 to 15 percent slopes	StC	1687	1384152	1hgb2	wv600	2005	1:24000
Shircliff-McGary complex, 3 to 8 percent slopes	SxB	1626	1384151	1hgb1	wv600	2005	1:24000
McGary-Shircliff complex, 0 to 3 percent slopes	McA	484	1384150	1hgb0	wv600	2005	1:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the SHIRCLIFF 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).