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soilTextureColorPal()
for suggesting a color palette suitable for soil texture class@sp
slot of the SoilProfileCollection object, and dependency on sp package, has been removed.rebuildSPC()
due to changes to S4 object structurerebuildSPC()
due to changes to S4 object structureestimatePSCS()
gains argument "lieutex"
for in lieu textures which are used in the new routine for identification of the particle size control section of organic soilsR/estimatePSCS.R
estimatePSCS.Rd
Estimates the upper and lower boundary of the particle size control section -by applying a programmatic version of the particle size control section key -from the Keys to Soil Taxonomy (12th edition).
+for Mineral or Organic soilsby applying a programmatic version of the +particle size control section key from the Keys to Soil Taxonomy (13th edition). +See details for assumptions and required data elements.Name of the horizon attribute containing the horizon -designation. Default 'hzname'
hzdesgnname(p, required = TRUE)
Name of the horizon attribute containing clay contents. -Default 'clay'
hzmetaname(p, "clay", required = TRUE)
Name of the horizon attribute containing textural class -(used for finding sandy textures). Default 'texcl'
hztexclname(p, required = TRUE)
+
+
+Optional data element used in addition to the horizon
+designation to identify kinds of organic soil material for soils with organic
+surfaces. Default: hzmetaname(p, "lieutex")
Regular expression pattern to match a root-restrictive -contact. Default matches Cr, R or Cd. This argument is passed to both -estimateSoilDepth and getArgillicBounds.
minDepthOf()
and getArgillicBounds()
.
Return a length 2 vector with upper and lower boundary when p has length 1? Default TRUE.
Return a length 2 vector with upper and lower boundary when +p has length 1? Default TRUE.
A numeric vector (when simplify=TRUE
) containing the top and bottom depth of the particle
+
A numeric vector (when simplify=TRUE
) containing the top and bottom
+depth of the particle
size control section. First value is top, second value is bottom.
-If p
contains more than one profile, the result is a data.frame with profile ID plus PSCS top and bottom depths.
p
contains more than one profile, the result is a data.frame with
+profile ID plus PSCS top and bottom depths.
getArgillicBounds()
as well as the presence of
plow layers and surface organic soil material. Any
getArgillicBounds()
arguments may be passed to estimatePSCS
.
-Requires information on taxonomic order (to handle andisols).
+Also, requires information on taxonomic order to handle Andisols.
+In aqp 2.1, particle size control sections of organic soils Histosols and
+Histels are supported. This requires setting the "lieutex"
horizon metadata
+column using hzmetaname<-()
Horizon designations containing "f"
or "W"
+are recognized as permafrost and water layers, respectively, for application
+of the organic soils key to control sections. In lieu textures "SPM"
and
+"PEAT"
are used to identify low density organic materials used for surface
+tier thickness. To avoid using the 160 cm surface tier, set the "lieutex"
+column to any column that does not contain "SPM"
or "PEAT"
values.
WARNING: Soils in arenic or grossarenic subgroups, with fragipans, or with strongly contrasting PSCs may not be classified correctly. The author would welcome a dataset to develop this functionality for.
@@ -165,7 +185,7 @@getArgillicBounds
, getSurfaceHorizonDepth
Estimate boundaries of the particle size control section (U.S Soil Taxonomy; 12th edition)
Estimate boundaries of the U.S Soil Taxonomy Particle Size Control Section