Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the BIROME soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of BIROME, 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 BIROME 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
84C85P023584TX217001Birome7Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties31.9777775,-97.3005524
84C86P059286TX121001Birome5Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties33.190834,-97.0066681
84C86P059386TX439001Birome5Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties32.5755539,-97.2258301

Water Balance

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

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 BIROME 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 BIROME 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 BIROME 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.

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

Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with BIROME, 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. TX-2012-03-21-16 | Johnson County - October 1985

    Typical pattern of soils and parent material in the Crosstell-Gasil-Rader map unit (Soil Survey of Johnson County, TX; 1985).

Map Units

Map units containing BIROME 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
Birome-Aubrey-Rayex complex, 3 to 12 percent slopes627387364511d79ftx09719731:24000
Birome-Rayex-Aubrey complex, 2 to 15 percent slopes1319233364962d7rztx12119751:24000
Birome fine sandy loam, 3 to 5 percent slopes1211737364961d7rytx12119751:24000
Birome fine sandy loam, 1 to 3 percent slopes113721364960d7rxtx12119751:24000
Birome-Rayex-Urban land complex, 2 to 12 percent slopes141671364963d7s0tx12119751:24000
Birome-Urban land complex, 1 to 5 percent slopes151451364964d7s1tx12119751:24000
Birome fine sandy loam, 5 to 12 percent slopesBmD1938365502d8bdtx14719891:24000
Birome fine sandy loam, 2 to 5 percent slopesBmC1222365501d8bctx14719891:24000
Aubrey-Birome complex, 3 to 12 percent slopes515662366687d9kmtx18119771:20000
Aubrey-Birome-Urban land complex, 3 to 12 percent slopes6518366698d9kztx18119771:20000
Birome-Rayex complex, 5 to 20 percent slopes153861367726dbn4tx21719751:20000
Birome-Rayex complex, 5 to 20 percent slopesBmE2917368150dc2ttx25119811:20000
Birome-Aubrey-Rayex complex, 5 to 15 percent slopesBmE6337372356dhghtx43919791:20000
Birome-Aubrey-Urban land complex, 5 to 15 percent slopesBuE5449372357dhgjtx43919791:20000
Birome fine sandy loam, 1 to 5 percent slopesBmC2505372355dhggtx43919791:20000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the BIROME 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 .