Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the SINKSON soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of SINKSON, 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 SINKSON 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
4705N0117S2005WY041002SINKSON7Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties41.1201096,-110.9902191

Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the SINKSON 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 SINKSON 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 SINKSON 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 SINKSON 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 SINKSON 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 SINKSON 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 SINKSON 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 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 SINKSON, 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 SINKSON 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
Earsman-Sinkson-Rock outcrop complex, 15 to 65 percent slopes391579496880jp1dco68419841:24000
Sinkson channery fine sandy loam, warm, 1 to 15 percent slopes120611496845jp08co68419841:24000
Sinkson gravelly sandy loam, 1 to 8 percent slopes85975497040jp6kco68519791:24000
Sinkson gravelly sandy loam, 8 to 15 percent slopes86567497041jp6lco68519791:24000
Sinkson silt loam, 6 to 15 percent slopes275578361050d3pswy63319871:24000
Thermopolis-Blazon-Sinkson complex, 3 to 60 percent slopes1892003504054jxhtwy63819901:24000
Sinkson sandy clay loam, 1 to 8 percent slopes181501504043jxhgwy63819901:24000
Thermopolis-Sinkson association, 3 to 30 percent slopes0515474515755858yjwy6471:24000
Sinkson-Thermopolis loams, 3 to 30 percent slopes0503631015755958ykwy6471:24000
Rockinchair-Sinkson loams, 1 to 15 percent slopes15229619157726593ywy6471:24000
Sinkson loam, 0 to 6 percent slopes0879465157710593fwy6471:24000
Rockinchair-Rock outcrop-Sinkson complex, 2 to 40 percent slopes1404804157745594kwy6471:24000
Rockinchair-Sinkson complex, 0 to 8 percent slopes1513722157725593xwy6471:24000
Sinkson-Almy-Thermopolis loams, 2 to 30 percent slopes41510916830831thd0wy6471:24000
Rockinchair-Rock outcrop-Sinkson complex, 2 to 40 percent slopes193D157815793059bjwy65620081:24000
Sinkson-Almy-Thermopolis association, 2 to 30 percent slopes208D65515793459bnwy65620081:24000
Rockinchair-Sinkson complex, 1 to 15 percent slopes194D11115793159bkwy65620081:24000
Thermopolis-Sinkson complex, 3 to 30 percent slopes211D621579552w7gnwy65620081:24000
Sinkson-Thermopolis association48226971590845bjrwy67719751:24000
Thermopolis-Sinkson association49174421590835bjqwy67719751:24000
Sinkson-Thermopolis loams, 3 to 15 percent slopes4721381590855bjswy67719751:24000
Sinkson loam, 0 to 6 percent slopes4518601590875bjvwy67719751:24000
Sinkson loam, 6 to 10 percent slopes466081590865bjtwy67719751:24000
Thermopolis-Sinkson complex, 3 to 30 percent slopes732019015412w7gnwy67719751:24000
Rockinchair-Rock outcrop-Sinkson complex, hilly19325692503058jwgpwy71319861:24000
Thermopolis-Sinkson complex, 3 to 30 percent slopes211113395030872w7gnwy71319861:24000
Sinkson-Almy-Thermopolis association, rolling20810870503083jwhhwy71319861:24000
Rockinchair-Sinkson loams, 1 to 15 percent slopes1949625503059jwgqwy71319861:24000
Sinkson-Almy sandy clay loams, 0 to 6 percent slopes2073888503082jwhgwy71319861:24000
Absher-Poposhia-Sinkson complex, 1 to 10 percent slopes1012685502959jwchwy71319861:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the SINKSON 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 .