Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the YATAHONEY soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of YATAHONEY, 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 YATAHONEY were used in the calculation. Source: KSSL snapshot . Methods used to assemble the KSSL snapshot used by SoilWeb / SDE

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Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the YATAHONEY 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 YATAHONEY 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 YATAHONEY 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 YATAHONEY 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 terrace figure.

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Competing Series

Soil series competing with YATAHONEY 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 YATAHONEY 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 YATAHONEY 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 .

There are insufficient data to create the 2D hillslope position figure.

There are insufficient data to create the 3D hills figure.

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 YATAHONEY, 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

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  1. ID-2010-08-31-03 | Owyhee County Area - 2003

    Typical pattern of soils in general soil map unit 7 (Soil Survey of Owyhee County, Idaho; 2003).

  2. ID-2011-06-01-13 | Duck Valley Indian Reservation - 1986

    Typical landscape of basalt and tableland in western part of survey area (Soil Survey of Duck Valley Indian Reservation, Idaho; 1986).

Map Units

Map units containing YATAHONEY 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
Deunah-Yatahoney-Lostvalley complex, 1 to 10 percent slopes45109892486198j9xtid67519921:24000
Wickahoney-Monasterio-Yatahoney association, 1 to 20 percent slopes20483105486116j9v5id67519921:24000
Boulder Lake-Yatahoney association, 0 to 10 percent slopes2213374486148j9w6id67519921:24000
Yatahoney-Nicholflat association, 1 to 10 percent slopes21413044486137j9vvid67519921:24000
Northcastle-Bluecreek-Yatahoney loams, 1 to 10 percent slopes1149659485917j9mrid67519921:24000
Yatahoney-Zecanyon-Deunah complex, 1 to 10 percent slopes2159350486139j9vxid67519921:24000
Yatahoney-Blackleg complex, 4 to 20 percent slopes5110770484871j8k0id67719841:24000
Burmah variant-Torney variant-Yatahoney complex, 0 to 2 percent slopes74134484878j8k7id67719841:24000
Yatahoney-Soonahbe complex, 2 to 10 percent slopes523348484872j8k1id67719841:24000
Thacker-Yatahoney complex, 1 to 8 percent slopes432401484862j8jqid67719841:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the YATAHONEY 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 .