Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the WHITEROCK soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of WHITEROCK, 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 WHITEROCK 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
18UCD650500165-CA-05-001xWhiterockn/aPrimary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties37.9392215,-120.6527595
18UCD650500265-CA-05-002xWhiterockn/aPrimary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties38.0621546,-120.7428919
18UCD660500666-CA-05-006xWhiterock4Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties37.898274,-120.5825566
18UCD735501173-CA-55-011xWhiterock2Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties37.8067572,-120.4748387
18UCD74057774-CA-05-077xWhiterock3Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties38.063235,-120.596654
18UCD750507875-CA-05-078xWhiterock3Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties37.9576112,-120.651781
18UCD775504277-CA-55-042xWhiterock3Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties37.8178676,-120.4787221
1883P029382CA067003Whiterock5Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties38.627224,-121.0958328
1807N0472S2007CA109003Whiterock7Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties37.8327789,-120.516304

Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the WHITEROCK 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 WHITEROCK 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 WHITEROCK 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 WHITEROCK 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.

There are insufficient data to create the 3D flats position figure.

Competing Series

Soil series competing with WHITEROCK 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 WHITEROCK 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 WHITEROCK 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 .

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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 WHITEROCK, 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 WHITEROCK 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
Whiterock loam, 3 to 30 percent slopes23710190461981hhqmca06719891:24000
Whiterock gravelly silt loam, 3 to 50 percent slopesWhE3153462303hj20ca62419681:20000
Copperopolis-Whiterock complex, 3 to 15 percent slopes, rocky803421518186593020mn9ca63020181:24000
Copperopolis-Whiterock complex, 15 to 30 percent slopes, rocky803612165186593120mnbca63020181:24000
Copperopolis-Whiterock complex, 2 to 8 percent slopes, rocky803310873186592920mn8ca63020181:24000
Urban land-Copperopolis-Whiterock complex, 8 to 30 percent slopes901829429248352x29bca63020181:24000
Copperopolis-Whiterock complex, 2 to 8 percent slopes, rocky8033801292497820mn8ca64419591:24000
Copperopolis-Whiterock complex, 3 to 15 percent slopes, rocky8034482292497920mn9ca64419591:24000
Whiterock rocky silt loam, 30 to 60 percent slopesWhF242462734hjhxca64419591:24000
Whiterock rocky silt loam, 8 to 30 percent slopesWhD137462733hjhwca64419591:24000
Whiterock silt loam, 0 to 8 percent slopesWkB37462735hjhyca64419591:24000
Whiterock rocky silt loam, 8 to 30 percent slopesWgD1739463201hjzzca64819591:20000
Whiterock rocky silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopesWgB587463199hjzxca64819591:20000
Whiterock rocky silt loam, 8 to 30 percent slopes, erodedWgD2431463202hk00ca64819591:20000
Whiterock rocky silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes, erodedWgB264463200hjzyca64819591:20000
Copperopolis-Whiterock complex, 3 to 15 percent slopes, rocky803463292498220mn9ca64819591:20000
Copperopolis-Whiterock complex, 2 to 8 percent slopes, rocky803361292498120mn8ca64819591:20000
Whiterock rocky loam, 5 to 50 percent slopesWaF3788463306hk3cca64919671:24000
Copperopolis-Whiterock complex, 3 to 15 percent slopes, rocky80341954292500320mn9ca64919671:24000
Copperopolis-Whiterock complex, 2 to 8 percent slopes, rocky80331477292500220mn8ca64919671:24000
Copperopolis-Whiterock complex, 15 to 30 percent slopes, rocky803692334045320mnbca64919671:24000
Whiterock very rocky fine sandy loam, 8 to 30 percent slopesWbD461463549hkc6ca65119591:20000
Whiterock rocky fine sandy loam, 30 to 45 percent slopesWaE133463548hkc5ca65119591:20000
Whiterock rocky fine sandy loam, 3 to 8 percent slopesWaB56463547hkc4ca65119591:20000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the WHITEROCK 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 .