Soil Data Explorer - ZOLTAY

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the ZOLTAY soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of ZOLTAY, 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 ZOLTAY 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 ZOLTAY 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 ZOLTAY series. Sketches are arranged according to their subgroup-level taxonomic structure. Source: SSURGO snapshot (updated 2024-10-24), parsed OSD records (updated 2024-10-23) and snapshot of SC database (updated 2024-10-23).

Select annual climate data summaries for the ZOLTAY 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 2024-10-23).

Geomorphic description summaries for the ZOLTAY 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 2024-10-23).

Competing Series

Soil series competing with ZOLTAY share the same family level classification in Soil Taxonomy. Source: parsed OSD records (updated 2024-10-23) and snapshot of the SC database (updated 2024-10-23).

Select annual climate data summaries for the ZOLTAY 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 2024-10-23).

Geomorphic description summaries for the ZOLTAY 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 2024-10-23).

Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with ZOLTAY, 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 2024-10-23).

Block Diagrams

No block diagrams are available.

Map Units

Map units containing ZOLTAY 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
Zoltay loam, 0 to 10 percent slopes	6B	2077	506852	k0f2	co648		1:24000
Granath-Zoltay-Nortez complex, 0 to 15 percent slopes	901	186	507283	k0vz	co672	2003	1:24000
Zoltay loam, 3 to 15 percent slopes	996	102	507321	k0x6	co672	2003	1:24000
Zoltay loam, 3 to 15 percent slopes	109	6645	501968	jvbj	co675	1986	1:24000
Acree-Zoltay-Nortez complex, 0 to 15 percent slopes	7	5124	502106	jvgz	co675	1986	1:24000
Zoltay clay loam, 1 to 3 percent slopes	110	1302	501970	jvbl	co675	1986	1:24000
Fergus, very stony-Zoltay complex, 3 to 12 percent slopes	MC33	132	3170480	k092	co676	1983	1:24000
Fergus, very stony-Zoltay complex, 3 to 12 percent slopes	33	2700	506728	k092	co680	1970	1:31680
Villa Grove-Zoltay loams, 15 to 30 percent slopes	71	13100	496816	jnzb	co683	1977	1:24000
Zoltay clay loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes	106	7136	496956	jp3v	co685	1979	1:24000
Zoltay clay loam, 8 to 15 percent slopes	107	7023	496957	jp3w	co685	1979	1:24000
Zoltay clay loam, 15 to 25 percent slopes	108	3491	496958	jp3x	co685	1979	1:24000
Zoltay clay loam, 1 to 3 percent slopes	105	332	496955	jp3t	co685	1979	1:24000
Zoltay family, zootic, 0 to 10 percent slopes	37	1282	2934350	2whdl	nm678		1:24000
Fergus, very stony-Zoltay complex, 3 to 12 percent slopes	MC33	14	3202650	k092	ut633	1983	1:24000
Narraguinnep-Zoltay families association, 5 to 45 percent slopes	mt11	3984	3202665	2zbv0	ut645		1:24000
Showalter family, rubbly-Zoltay family-Posant family, stony complex, 10 to 40 percent slopes	123	3258	791151	vk80	ut651		1:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the ZOLTAY 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 2024-10-30).