Soil Data Explorer - BREECE

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the BREECE soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of BREECE, 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 BREECE were used in the calculation. Source: KSSL snapshot (updated 2020-03-18). Methods used to assemble the KSSL snapshot used by SoilWeb / SDE

There are insufficient data to create the lab data summary figure.

Water Balance

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

Sibling Summary

Siblings are those soil series that occur together in map units, in this case with the BREECE series. Sketches are arranged according to their subgroup-level taxonomic structure. Source: SSURGO snapshot (updated 2024-10-24), parsed OSD records (updated 2024-10-23) and snapshot of SC database (updated 2024-10-23).

Select annual climate data summaries for the BREECE series and siblings. Series are sorted according to hierarchical clustering of median values. Source: SSURGO map unit geometry and 1981-2010, 800m PRISM data (updated 2024-10-23).

Geomorphic description summaries for the BREECE 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 (updated 2024-10-23).

Competing Series

Soil series competing with BREECE share the same family level classification in Soil Taxonomy. Source: parsed OSD records (updated 2024-10-23) and snapshot of the SC database (updated 2024-10-23).

Select annual climate data summaries for the BREECE series and competing. Series are sorted according to hierarchical clustering of median values. Source: SSURGO map unit geometry and 1981-2010, 800m PRISM data (updated 2024-10-23).

Geomorphic description summaries for the BREECE 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 (updated 2024-10-23).

Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with BREECE, 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 (updated 2024-10-23).

Block Diagrams

No block diagrams are available.

Map Units

Map units containing BREECE 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
Breece sandy loam, 2 to 18 percent slopes	7	10897	496509	jnnf	co627	1980	1:24000
Breece sandy loam, 5 to 15 percent slopes	Ct	1645	472865	hw1q	co628	2008	1:24000
Breece sandy loam, 9 to 25 percent slopes	14	180	497418	jplr	co641	1980	1:24000
Breece coarse sandy loam, 9 to 30 percent slopes	20	80	3210282	jpvr	co643	1975	1:20000
Breece coarse sandy loam, 9 to 30 percent slopes	20	8445	497666	jpvr	co644	1980	1:24000
Breece coarse sandy loam, 3 to 9 percent slopes	19	7942	497664	jpvp	co644	1980	1:24000
Breece coarse sandy loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes	18	680	497663	jpvn	co644	1980	1:24000
Lone Rock-Breece gravelly sandy loams, 2 to 9 percent slopes	27	1145	512699	k6hp	co653	2000	1:24000
Lininger-Breece gravelly sandy loams, 3 to 12 percent slopes	24	1137	512696	k6hl	co653	2000	1:24000
Lone Rock-Breece gravelly sandy loams, 9 to 15 percent slopes	28	370	512700	k6hq	co653	2000	1:24000
Breece gravelly sandy loam, 3 to 40 percent slopes	3	347	512675	k6gx	co653	2000	1:24000
Urban land-Breece complex, 0 to 9 percent slopes	63	26	512735	k6jv	co653	2000	1:24000
Breece loam, 1 to 6 percent slopes	17	858	496592	jnr3	co679	1976	1:24000
Breece variant sandy loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes	Bd	2491	375669	dlxc	nm638	1981	1:31680
Falcon, dry-Breece families complex, 3 to 20 percent slopes	mt25	5440	3202675	2zbv9	ut645		1:24000
Breece-Falcon, dry families complex, 3 to 20 percent slopes	mt24	2871	3202674	2zbv8	ut645		1:24000
Lupinto family, moist, stony-Breece family, dry association, 2 to 30 percent slopes	524	16235	512503	k69c	ut646		1:24000
Breece family-Farnuf family association, 3 to 15 percent slopes	43	3757	512384	k65j	ut646		1:24000
Boyle, thin solum-Breece-Cathedral complex, 0 to 30 percent slopes	115	796	104425	3hnk	wy031	1998	1:24000
Ipson-Breece, dry-Evanston complex, 0 to 6 percent slopes	137	12019	104938	3j63	wy721	1994	1:24000
Boyle, thin solum-Breece-Cathedral complex, 0 to 30 percent slopes	114	5414	104915	3j5c	wy721	1994	1:24000
Breece fine sandy loam, 0 to 10 percent slopes	119	3165	104920	3j5j	wy721	1994	1:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the BREECE 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 (updated 2024-10-30).