Soil Data Explorer - SULTZ

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the SULTZ soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of SULTZ, 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 SULTZ were used in the calculation. Source: KSSL snapshot (updated 2020-03-18). 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 SULTZ 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 SULTZ series. Sketches are arranged according to their subgroup-level taxonomic structure. Source: SSURGO snapshot (updated 2024-02-21), parsed OSD records (updated 2023-10-06) and snapshot of SC database (updated 2023-10-02).

Select annual climate data summaries for the SULTZ 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 SULTZ 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).

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Competing Series

Soil series competing with SULTZ share the same family level classification in Soil Taxonomy. Source: parsed OSD records (updated 2023-10-06) and snapshot of the SC database (updated 2023-10-02).

Select annual climate data summaries for the SULTZ 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 SULTZ 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 mountains figure.

Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with SULTZ, 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

No block diagrams are available.

Map Units

Map units containing SULTZ 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
Rubicon-Sultz complex, 0 to 6 percent slopes	308B	147	1455448	1kvhy	mi003	2007	1:24000
Rubicon-Sultz complex, 6 to 15 percent slopes	308D	100	1455449	1kvhz	mi003	2007	1:24000
Rubicon-Sultz complex, 0 to 6 percent slopes	520B	1065	1457045	1kx5g	mi153	2007	1:24000
Rubicon-Sultz complex, 6 to 15 percent slopes	520D	474	1650284	1sd7z	mi153	2007	1:24000
Sultz-Ashwabay-Rubicon complex, 15 to 45 percent slopes	805E	900	1444489	1kh3f	wi003	2006	1:12000
Sultz sand, 6 to 15 percent slopes	674C	60	1444471	1kh2v	wi003	2006	1:12000
Sultz sand, 0 to 6 percent slopes	674B	47	1444470	1kh2t	wi003	2006	1:12000
Sultz sand, 15 to 45 percent slopes	674E	5	1444473	1kh2x	wi003	2006	1:12000
Sultz sand, 6 to 15 percent slopes	674C	23394	433730	gkb9	wi007	2005	1:12000
Sultz sand, 10 to 30 percent slopes	674D	12027	1380088	1hb2z	wi007	2005	1:12000
Sultz-Ashwabay-Rubicon complex, 15 to 45 percent slopes	805E	7216	433310	gjwr	wi007	2005	1:12000
Sultz sand, 0 to 6 percent slopes	674B	7202	433729	gkb8	wi007	2005	1:12000
Sultz sand, 15 to 45 percent slopes	674E	2601	433731	gkbb	wi007	2005	1:12000
Sultz sand, 6 to 15 percent slopes	674C	2865	781428	v74c	wi031	2005	1:12000
Sultz sand, 0 to 6 percent slopes	674B	945	781427	v74b	wi031	2005	1:12000
Sultz sand, 15 to 45 percent slopes	674E	864	781429	v74d	wi031	2005	1:12000
Sultz-Ashwabay-Rubicon complex, 15 to 45 percent slopes	805E	4	781484	v765	wi031	2005	1:12000
Sultz sand, 0 to 6 percent slopes	674B	1231	782295	v81b	wi051	2006	1:12000
Sultz sand, 6 to 15 percent slopes	674C	448	782296	v81c	wi051	2006	1:12000
Sultz-Ashwabay-Rubicon complex, 15 to 45 percent slopes	805E	406	1697717	1tzm2	wi051	2006	1:12000
Sultz sand, 15 to 45 percent slopes	674E	103	782297	v81d	wi051	2006	1:12000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the SULTZ 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).