Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the ABREU soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of ABREU, 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 ABREU 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 ABREU 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 ABREU 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 ABREU 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 ABREU 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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Competing Series

Soil series competing with ABREU 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 ABREU 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 ABREU 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 ABREU, 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

Click a link below to display the diagram. Note that these diagrams may be from multiple survey areas.

  1. NM-2012-02-14-08 | Jicarilla Apache Nation, Parts of Rio Arriba and Sandoval Counties - 2004

    Conceptual diagram of the major soil and landscape positions of the Yeguas Mesas transition to the Lewis Shale landscape (Soil Survey of Jicarilla Apache Nation, New Mexico, Parts of Rio Arriba and Sandoval Counties; 2004).

Map Units

Map units containing ABREU 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
Lobat family-Abreu complex, 25 to 80 percent slopesM6-F9836740134sv59co66820181:24000
Abreu-Lobat complex, 15 to 60 percent slopes201893784448vb8sco66820181:24000
Abreu, very bouldery-Rock outcrop-Rubble land complex, 35 to 60 percent slopes590740609599ngbhco66820181:24000
Broadmoor-Abreu families, complex, moderately steep mountain slopes30MB1230828090572tr4gmt60319891:24000
Broadmoor-Abreu families, complex, steep mountain slopes64MB924728091172tr6dmt60319891:24000
Broadmoor-Abreu families, complex, moderately steep mountain slopes30MB8729954092tr4gmt65119971:24000
Abreu-Cypher association, hillyAB4199507707k19nnm00719741:24000
Abreu-Cypher complex, 15 to 65 percent slopesAcG39830438402whhgnm63019771:48000
Lobat-Abreu gravelly loams, 15 to 60 percent slopes20147011561911wgmnm65019891:24000
Lobat-Abreu gravelly loams, 15 to 60 percent slopesLbG18730438392tl9nnm67019761:24000
Abreu-Lobat families complex, 15 to 40 percent slopes3512364527700962sw53nm6721:24000
Lobat-Abreu gravelly loams, 15 to 60 percent slopesLbG41927701792tl9nnm6721:24000
Abreu, moderately deep-Lobat families complex, 15 to 40 percent slopes1421340929342582wgjdnm6781:24000
Broadmoor-Abreu families complex, moderately deep, 15 to 40 percent slopes3551243229343452whdfnm6781:24000
Abreu family, 15 to 40 percent slopes7151195029344202whgvnm6781:24000
Abreu-Cypher complex, 15 to 65 percent slopesAcG646929344352whhgnm6781:24000
Abreu family, 25 to 80 percent slopes716598029344212whgwnm6781:24000
Lobat-Abreu gravelly loams, 15 to 60 percent slopesLbG126229345472tl9nnm6781:24000
Abreu-Cypher association, 10 to 35 percent slopesABE105927210572whhfnm6781:24000
Abreu family-Rubbleland-Rock outcrop complex, 35 to 80 percent slopes590420575351xvznm69820001:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the ABREU 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 .