Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the VOLBORG soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of VOLBORG, 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 VOLBORG 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
5290P108890MT071006Volborg6Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties47.831665,-108.223053
5290P109590MT071013Volborg6Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties48.7397232,-108.2138901
60B83P072578MT087428Volborg6Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties46.4263878,-106.7772217

Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the VOLBORG 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 VOLBORG 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 VOLBORG 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 VOLBORG 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 VOLBORG 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 VOLBORG 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 VOLBORG 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 VOLBORG, 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 VOLBORG 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
Neldore-Volborg clays, 4 to 15 percent slopes258D24419343050chz4mt01119921:24000
Volborg silty clay, saline, 4 to 15 percent slopes198D7328343016chy1mt01119921:24000
Volborg-Julin complex, warm, 6 to 60 percent slopes634E5429343192cj3qmt01119921:24000
Volborg clay, 2 to 8 percent slopes98C2155343295cj71mt01119921:24000
Volborg-Julin-Rock outcrop complex, 8 to 25 percent slopes298E1760343076chzzmt01119921:24000
Volborg-Volborg, saline-Rock outcrop complex, 8 to 45 percent slopes398E817343103cj0vmt01119921:24000
Neldore-Volborg, saline complex, 1 to 8 percent slopes666C128343636cjl1mt01719951:24000
Neldore-Volborg, wooded, silty clays, 15 to 60 percent slopes24F33151342770chp3mt03320021:24000
Neldore-Volborg silty clays, 4 to 25 percent slopes253E19373427552xyn4mt03320021:24000
Volborg silty clay, 8 to 35 percent slopes25E253360666d39dmt03320021:24000
Neldore-Volborg silty clays, 4 to 25 percent slopes61E27853446092xyn4mt06519961:24000
Neldore-Volborg silty clays, 4 to 25 percent slopes67196303447372xyn4mt06919891:24000
Volborg, eroded-Rock outcrop-Julin complex, 4 to 25 percent slopes909266344763ckrdmt06919891:24000
Volborg-Volborg, eroded-Julin silty clays, 4 to 25 percent slopes896755344761ckrbmt06919891:24000
Volborg silty clay, moist, 2 to 25 percent slopes884112344760ckr9mt06919891:24000
Volborg-Pinebreaks-Rock outcrop association, 15 to 60 percent slopes1977F35509347627cnqsmt64119941:24000
Volborg-Neldore-Rock outcrop association, 15 to 60 percent slopes2972F31281347659cnrtmt64119941:24000
Volborg-Rock outcrop complex, 8 to 45 percent slopes1972F289563476232vytkmt64119941:24000
Volborg silty clay, saline, 1 to 4 percent slopes19227099348022cp4jmt64919851:24000
Neldore-Volborg silty clays, 4 to 25 percent slopes148208853479732xyn4mt64919851:24000
Volborg silty clay, 8 to 35 percent slopes19117022348021cp4hmt64919851:24000
Volborg, saline-Rock outcrop complex, 4 to 45 percent slopes19313215348023cp4kmt64919851:24000
Gerdrum, shale substratum-Volborg, saline, complex, 1 to 4 percent slopes943243348130cp80mt64919851:24000
Ustic Torriorthents, clayey-Volborg, saline, complex, 1 to 8 percent slopes1871763348016cp4bmt64919851:24000
Volborg-Neldore-Rock outcrop complex, 4 to 35 percent slopes162E365017175661vn8cmt66620081:24000
Volborg-Oysterridge-Oysterridge family, deep, complex, 4 to 15 percent slopes5501151414755721ljg3wy6351:24000
Cabbart-Volborg-Badland complex, wooded, 3 to 60 percent slopes2602763817640wfthwy70520031:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the VOLBORG 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 .