Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the BOWES soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of BOWES, 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 BOWES 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
111DMY80201980IN107020Bowes2Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties40.174125,-86.9768917
111DTI84251984IN157025Bowes2Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties40.3592639,-86.8899
95B40A280567IL089001Bowes6Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties42.103901,-88.3458742

Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the BOWES 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 BOWES 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 BOWES 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 BOWES 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.

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Competing Series

Soil series competing with BOWES 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 BOWES 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 BOWES 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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Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with BOWES, 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 BOWES 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
Bowes silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes792A58218393765dgil03719981:12000
Bowes silt loam, 2 to 4 percent slopes792B46618393865dhil03719981:12000
Bowes silt loam, 2 to 4 percent slopes792B51718345064wril04319981:12000
Bowes silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes792A25581988686ny3il08920001:12000
Bowes silt loam, 2 to 4 percent slopes792B22941988696ny4il08920001:12000
Bowes silt loam, 4 to 6 percent slopes, eroded792C22681988706ny5il08920001:12000
Bowes silt loam, 2 to 4 percent slopes792B232777751v39ril09720031:12000
Bowes silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes792A174804794w0g3il09720031:12000
Bowes silt loam, 2 to 4 percent slopes792B45014278221jxrsil09920061:12000
Bowes silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes792A22314278231jxrtil09920061:12000
Bowes silt loam, 2 to 4 percent slopes792B15971827806464il11119971:12000
Bowes silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes792A13511827796463il11119971:12000
Bowes silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes792A6452624328t2kil19720021:12000
Bowes silt loam, 2 to 4 percent slopes792B371618739nrvbil19720021:12000
Bowes variant silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopesBoA5391629985gm0in10719841:15840
Bowes silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopesBoA15831638675hj1in15719901:15840
Bowes Variant silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopesBpA3101638705hj4in15719901:15840

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the BOWES 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 .