Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the SWEDE soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of SWEDE, 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 SWEDE 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
43B79P043779ID003002Swede7Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties44.9972229,-116.2319412
43B79P043979ID003004Swede7Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties44.9833336,-116.2986145

Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the SWEDE 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 SWEDE 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 SWEDE 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 SWEDE 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 SWEDE 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 SWEDE 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 SWEDE 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 SWEDE, 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 SWEDE 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
Swede silt loam, 4 to 12 percent slopes55379415419255fyid65219771:24000
Swede silt loam, 12 to 20 percent slopes56233415419355fzid65219771:24000
Swede silt loam, 2 to 4 percent slopes5477815419155fxid65219771:24000
Swede loam, 4 to 12 percent slopes1937025811992qhbid65619921:24000
Swede loam, 4 to 12 percent slopes65619343633323532qhbid7001:24000
Swede silt loam, 12 to 20 percent slopes652056252341764755fzid7001:24000
Clayburn-Swede families complex, 50 to 90 percent slopes3475281923764362krw7id75819981:24000
Clayburn-Swede families complex, 15 to 50 percent slopes3340165723764402krwcid75819981:24000
Wix-Swede complex, 5 to 25 percent slopes63229598312wsx0wy6301:24000
Elkpeak-Swede complex, 5 to 30 percent slopes62941926178392rb31wy6301:24000
Worock-Jaegie-Swede complex, 6 to 25 percent slopes750156916985831v0j0wy6351:24000
Worock-Jaegie-Swede complex, 6 to 25 percent slopes75012125154661v0j0wy66219981:24000
Muggins-Yata-Swede families, complex, 20 to 55 percent slopes3653154152020535wwy66320121:24000
Elwood-Gany-Swede families, complex, 0 to 30 percent slopes422658152037536fwy66320121:24000
Maciver-Stubbs-Swede families, complex, 0 to 20 percent slopes161617151950533mwy66320121:24000
Swede-Dromedary, deep-Horsethief families, complex, 0 to 10 percent slopes4015251520255361wy66320121:24000
Quietus-Swede-Dranyon complex, 15 to 45 percent slopes812131696922y0ykwy7231:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the SWEDE 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 .