Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the ASHOLLOW soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of ASHOLLOW, 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 ASHOLLOW 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
67A91P026290NE069032Ashollow5Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties41.2652779,-102.1083298

Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the ASHOLLOW 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 ASHOLLOW 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 ASHOLLOW 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 ASHOLLOW 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 ASHOLLOW 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 ASHOLLOW 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 ASHOLLOW 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 mountains figure.

There are insufficient data to create the 3D terrace figure.

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Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with ASHOLLOW, 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

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  1. NE-2012-02-13-03 | Garden County - 1999

    Typical pattern of the soils and underlying material in the Ashollow-Tassel association (Soil Survey of Garden County, Nebraska; 1999).

Map Units

Map units containing ASHOLLOW 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
Tassel-Ashollow-Rock outcrop complex, 20 to 60 percent slopes603069222281482dskrne00719881:20000
Tassel-Ashollow-Rock outcrop complex, 9 to 60 percent slopes603112422174612wcblne01319801:20000
Ashollow-Tassel complex, 9 to 30 percent slopes5917182422197012wf3wne03319891:20000
Tassel-Ashollow-Rock outcrop complex, 20 to 60 percent slopes603089622196852dhrrne03319891:20000
Tassel-Ashollow-Rock outcrop complex, 9 to 60 percent slopes603179122175422wcblne04519731:20000
Ashollow-Tassel complex, 9 to 30 percent slopes5917320616987962wf3wne04920001:24000
Tassel-Ashollow-Rock outcrop complex, 9 to 60 percent slopes6031133116991111v121ne05719951:24000
Ashollow-Tassel complex, 9 to 30 percent slopes59172979416987232wf3wne06919951:20000
Tassel-Ashollow-Rock outcrop complex, 20 to 60 percent slopes60302117616987791v0qbne06919951:20000
Tassel-Ashollow-Rock outcrop complex, 20 to 60 percent slopes603028422195912dhnqne10119901:20000
Tassel-Ashollow-Rock outcrop complex, 20 to 60 percent slopes6030924816925561tt7lne10520041:24000
Ashollow-Tassel complex, 9 to 30 percent slopes591729822203682wf3wne12319811:20000
Tassel-Ashollow-Rock outcrop complex, 20 to 60 percent slopes60304022203702djgvne12319811:20000
Tassel-Ashollow-Rock outcrop complex, 9 to 60 percent slopes6031305622276782wcblne15719651:20000
Ashollow loamy very fine sand, 3 to 9 percent slopes5915103322276712ds2cne15719651:20000
Ashollow loamy very fine sand, 9 to 20 percent slopes591638222276722ds2dne15719651:20000
Tassel-Ashollow-Rock outcrop complex, 9 to 60 percent slopes6031718613580382wcblne16519931:20000
Ashollow loamy very fine sand, 3 to 9 percent slopes591533610357853d0cnne16519931:20000
Ashollow loamy very fine sand, 9 to 20 percent slopes59168622357854d0cpne16519931:20000
Pitchdraw-Ashollow-Niobrara complex, 3 to 30 percent slopes2208099349920cr3rwy60519951:24000
Urban land-Pitchdraw-Ashollow complex, 6 to 15 percent slopes232604349932cr44wy60519951:24000
Pitchdraw-Ashollow-Mittenbutte fine sandy loams, 3 to 20 percent slopes3091954817636wftcwy70520031:24000
Pitchdraw-Ashollow-Niobrara complex, 3 to 30 percent slopes220182817587wfrswy70520031:24000
Ashollow loamy very fine sand, 3 to 9 percent slopes8718514153731jht6wy71519741:20000
Tassel-Ashollow-Rock outcrop complex, 9 to 60 percent slopes859514153712wcblwy71519741:20000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the ASHOLLOW 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 .