Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the ANITA soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of ANITA, 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 ANITA 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 ANITA 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 ANITA 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 ANITA 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 ANITA 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 ANITA 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 ANITA 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 ANITA 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 ANITA, 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. CA-2012-05-08-02 | Butte Area, Parts of Butte and Plumas Counties - 2006

    Block diagram 1.—This diagram shows the mouth of Big Chico Creek Canyon, where the creek transitions from its steeper foothill reach to its flatter Sacramento Valley reach in Bidwell Park. The creek has cut through the volcanic Tuscan Formation and is now cutting through hard Lovejoy basalt. The resistant Lovejoy basalt confines the stream channel, and a narrow slot canyon has formed at the bottom of the wider Tuscan Canyon. As the creek leaves the confinement of the slot canyon and enters the flatter topography of the valley, the energy of the water decreases, causing sediment to be deposited. As sediment fills the channel, the channel begins to move laterally. The channel slowly migrates away from the sediment deposits, allowing the sediment to form into alluvial soils (Soil Survey of Butte Area, California, Parts of Butte and Plumas Counties; 2006).

  2. CA-2012-05-08-03 | Butte Area, Parts of Butte and Plumas Counties - 2006

    Block diagram 2.—This diagram shows a portion of the Table Mountain area, the result of stream erosion slowly cutting away basalt flow rock, exposing the underlying Ione Formation. The sediment produced from this downcutting is transported downstream to flatter surrounding areas and over time is deposited and forms alluvial soils on various alluvial landforms (Soil Survey of Butte Area, California, Parts of Butte and Plumas Counties; 2006).

  3. CA-2012-05-08-07 | Butte Area, Parts of Butte and Plumas Counties - 2006

    Block diagram 6.—This diagram shows the transition from the volcanic foothills to the flatter topography of the strath terraces adjacent to the Sacramento Valley. In the steeper upper reaches, the stream channels are confined on the canyon bottoms and begin to migrate laterally as the gradient decreases. As the stream channels meander with lower energy, they deposit sediment, forming various alluvial soils and landforms over time (Soil Survey of Butte Area, California, Parts of Butte and Plumas Counties; 2006).

Map Units

Map units containing ANITA 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
Anita very cobbly clay, 0 to 8 percent slopesAkB365459931hflhca60719671:20000
Anita clay, 0 to 8 percent slopesAhB63459930hflgca60719671:20000
Tuscan-Fallager-Anita, gravelly duripan, , 0 to 3 percent slopes6775637461484hh6lca61220051:24000
Carhart-Anita taxadjunct , 0 to 12 percent slopes6763756461485hh6mca61220051:24000
Redtough-Fallager-Anita, gravelly duripan , 0 to 3 percent slopes6062613461219hgy1ca61220051:24000
Redtough-Redswale-Anita, gravelly duripan, , 0 to 5 percent slopes3052557727224sdqvca61220051:24000
Tuscan-Igo-Anita , 0 to 3 percent slopes1081059727221sdqrca61220051:24000
Anita, gravelly duripan-Tuscan taxadjunct , 0 to 2 percent slopes609638461224hgy6ca61220051:24000
Anita-Galt , 0 to 3 percent slopes100433461127hgv2ca61220051:24000
Anita-Keefers complex, 0 to 3 percent slopesAt2086460684hgcsca64519611:20000
Anita cobbly clay, moderately deepAo1531460681hgcpca64519611:20000
Anita clayAd1178460677hgckca64519611:20000
Anita clay, moderately deepAf1124460678hgclca64519611:20000
Anita clay, deepAg952460679hgcmca64519611:20000
Anita gravelly clay, moderately deepAp820460682hgcqca64519611:20000
Anita cobbly clayAn779460680hgcnca64519611:20000
Tuscan-Igo-Anita , 0 to 3 percent slopes108bu4152766039sdqrca64519611:20000
Anita stony clay, 0 to 8 percent slopesAsB180460683hgcrca64519611:20000
Anita-Galt , 0 to 3 percent slopes100bu952766032hgv2ca64519611:20000
Redtough-Fallager-Anita, gravelly duripan , 0 to 3 percent slopes606bu302766037hgy1ca64519611:20000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the ANITA 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 .