Soil Data Explorer - WHITESAGE

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

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

Competing Series

Soil series competing with WHITESAGE 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 WHITESAGE 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 WHITESAGE 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 WHITESAGE, 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 WHITESAGE 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
Rootel-Skein-Whitesage complex, 4 to 15 percent slopes	10D	361	147647	4ymt	mt609	1971	1:24000
Cedarknoll-Tabyago-Whitesage association, 2 to 25 percent slopes	JZE2	36198	1709619	1vd00	ut013		1:24000
Whitesage-Dancehall complex, 3 to 20 percent slopes	LaD	13269	2503716	2pvzq	ut013		1:24000
Schrader, frequently flooded-Millburne, occasionally flooded-Whitesage complex, 2 to 10 percent slopes	UoB	2941	2496416	2pvzj	ut013		1:24000
Wildmount-Whitesage association, 8 to 50 percent slopes	272	13532	505553	jz25	ut047	1999	1:24000
Whitesage-Cedarknoll complex, 3 to 8 percent slopes	270	7131	505551	jz23	ut047	1999	1:24000
Notter-Whitesage-Podo association, 3 to 20 percent slopes	112	2297	1536636	1nkzx	ut623	2011	1:24000
Foy-Whitesage families complex, 2 to 35 percent slopes	187	20	2713035	2qdqr	ut623	2011	1:24000
Whitesage family-Wildmount complex, 35 to 60 percent slopes	106	1286	2485552	2pff3	ut642		1:63360
Whitesage-Tylercreek-Countyline complex, 15 to 35 percent slopes	107	1204	2452693	2nb74	ut642		1:63360
Foy-Whitesage families complex, 2 to 35 percent slopes	26	3115	2504484	2qdqr	ut685	1990	1:24000
Whitesage-Rootel complex, 0 to 10 percent slopes	55	3799	1480210	1lp8q	wy041		1:24000
Millburne-Poposhia complex, 1 to 8 percent slopes	6	2749	1153289	17q2w	wy041		1:24000
Whitesage-Bronec-Bronec, very stony complex, 6 to 25 percent slopes	152	998	1861282	20gtc	wy041		1:24000
Coyoteflats-Whitesage-Beavwan complex, 2 to 15 percent slopes	1304		3019035	2xcd1	wy630		1:24000
Delpoint-Whitesage-Badland complex, 7 to 35 percent slopes	846		3365714	312fk	wy630		1:24000
Cusheet-Delpoint-Whitesage complex, 1 to 12 percent slopes	863		3365735	312g1	wy630		1:24000
Delpoint-Whitesage-Kayso complex, 3 to 20 percent slopes	869		3365742	312gf	wy630		1:24000
Cragnot-Dullknife-Whitesage complex, 6 to 20 percent slopes	976	2424	1529212	1nb8f	wy719	2013	1:24000
Whitesage loam, 0 to 6 percent slopes -- draft	515A	5208	503383	jwt5	wy723		1:24000
Frandsen-Foreright-Whitesage complex, 2 to 15 percent slopes	4119		3222503	2ztmf	wy737		1:24000
Bonhigh family-Rootel-Whitesage family, complex, 2 to 15 percent slopes	2704	6287	2611973	2qsvm	wy737		1:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the WHITESAGE 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).