Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

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

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Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with ARGORA, 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 ARGORA 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
Argora-McNinch family-Bailey, extremely bouldery surface, complex, 25 to 65 percent slopes127AJ2138932388512ztdcid7031:24000
Argora-Jimsage-Crossley complex, 30 to 65 percent slopes127AM1087832388532ztdfid7031:24000
Argora-McNinch family-Bailey, extremely bouldery surface, complex, 25 to 65 percent slopes127AJ33204632ztdcid7201:24000
Argora-McNinch family-Bailey, extremely bouldery surface, complex, 25 to 65 percent slopes127AJ118932390362ztdcid75219991:24000
Argora-Windicreek-Latigo complex, 20 to 60 percent slopes12700830124329852mnqdid76120181:24000
Argora-Jimsage-Crossley complex, 30 to 65 percent slopes127AM215532390542ztdfid76319981:24000
Argora-McNinch family-Bailey, extremely bouldery surface, complex, 25 to 65 percent slopes127AJ112332390522ztdcid76319981:24000
Argora-Farva families-Rock outcrop complex, stream breaklands60MA932828090992tr5tmt60319891:24000
Argora-St. Marys families, association, moderately steep mountain slopes30MA706528090562tr4fmt60319891:24000
Argora-St. Marys families, complex, steep mountain slopes, extremely stony64MA650528091162tr6cmt60319891:24000
Beeskove-Argora families-Rock outcrop complex, dissected stream breaklands61MC586628091072tr62mt60319891:24000
Argora-St. Marys families, complex, steep mountain slopes, extremely stony64MA32329953612tr6cmt63819851:24000
Beeskove-Argora families-Rock outcrop complex, dissected stream breaklands61MC12729953582tr62mt63819851:24000
Argora-Farva families-Rock outcrop complex, stream breaklands60MA8929953512tr5tmt63819851:24000
Argora-St. Marys families, association, moderately steep mountain slopes30MA6229953292tr4fmt63819851:24000
Beeskove-Argora families-Rock outcrop complex, dissected stream breaklands61MC15929953852tr62mt64419951:24000
Argora-Farva families-Rock outcrop complex, stream breaklands60MA42329954302tr5tmt65119971:24000
Beeskove-Argora families-Rock outcrop complex, dissected stream breaklands61MC18029954362tr62mt65119971:24000
Argora-St. Marys families, complex, steep mountain slopes, extremely stony64MA12529954392tr6cmt65119971:24000
Argora-St. Marys families, association, moderately steep mountain slopes30MA2229954082tr4fmt65119971:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the ARGORA 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 .