Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the LOCHLOOSA soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of LOCHLOOSA, 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 LOCHLOOSA 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
154S42_0531966-FL083-S42_053Lochloosa3Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties29.2362862,-82.2940521
154S54_0191984-FL107-S54_019Lochloosa3Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties29.5389633,-81.955658
154S42_021S1965FL083021Lochloosa2Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties29.323431,-82.3458405
154S51_018S1978FL101018Lochloosa3Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties28.3841228,-82.358963
154S51_020S1978FL101020Lochloosa3Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties28.3813438,-82.374054
154S09_007S1981FL017007Lochloosa3Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties28.8560658,-82.4857025
155S01_0771976-FL001-S01_077Lochloosa3Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties29.687952,-82.4295578
155S01_1001980-FL001-S01_100Lochloosa3Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties29.7162037,-82.1132431

Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the LOCHLOOSA 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 LOCHLOOSA 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 LOCHLOOSA 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 LOCHLOOSA 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 LOCHLOOSA 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 LOCHLOOSA series and competing. Series are sorted according to hierarchical clustering of median values. Source: SSURGO map unit geometry and 1981-2010, 800m PRISM data .

There are insufficient data to create the annual climate figure.

Geomorphic description summaries for the LOCHLOOSA 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 LOCHLOOSA, 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 LOCHLOOSA 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
Lochloosa fine sand, 0 to 2 percent slopes4915564320740brrgfl00119821:15840
Lochloosa fine sand, 2 to 5 percent slopes2910658320695brq0fl00119821:15840
Lochloosa fine sand, 5 to 8 percent slopes722902320776brsmfl00119821:15840
Lochloosa fine sand, 0 to 5 percent slopes2515883210612v17kfl01719851:20000
Lochloosa-Micanopy fine sands, 0 to 5 percent slopes2648014069761j72bfl05719861:20000
Sparr-Lochloosa complex, 1 to 5 percent slopes65564014141081jghdfl07519901:24000
Lochloosa fine sand221435323135bv7qfl09519861:20000
Lochloosa fine sand, 0 to 5 percent slopes4846353232182v17kfl10119801:20000
Lochloosa fine sand26271114250171jtv9fl10519871:20000
Lochloosa sand, 0 to 5 percent slopes18850323381bvhnfl10719851:15840
Lochloosa sand30302816031571qt6rfl60719701:20000
Lochloosa fine sand, 0 to 5 percent slopes461402717129292v17kfl60819791:15840
Lochloosa fine sand, 5 to 8 percent slopes4756817129301vhftfl60819791:15840

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the LOCHLOOSA 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 .