Soil Data Explorer - BUCKS

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the BUCKS soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of BUCKS, 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 BUCKS were used in the calculation. Source: KSSL snapshot (updated 2020-03-13). Methods used to assemble the KSSL snapshot used by SoilWeb / SDE

Pedons used in the lab summary:

MLRA	Lab ID	Pedon ID	Taxonname	CI	NSSL / NASIS Reports	Link To SoilWeb GMap
148	40A0368	S1956PA029008	Bucks	6	Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties	40.1733322,-75.6038895

Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the BUCKS 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 BUCKS series. Sketches are arranged according to their subgroup-level taxonomic structure. Source: SSURGO snapshot (updated 2024-02-21), parsed OSD records (updated 2023-10-02) and snapshot of SC database (updated 2023-10-02).

Select annual climate data summaries for the BUCKS 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 2023-10-09).

Geomorphic description summaries for the BUCKS 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 2023-10-04).

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

Competing Series

Soil series competing with BUCKS share the same family level classification in Soil Taxonomy. Source: parsed OSD records (updated 2023-10-02) and snapshot of the SC database (updated 2023-10-02).

Select annual climate data summaries for the BUCKS 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 2023-10-09).

Geomorphic description summaries for the BUCKS 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 2023-10-04).

Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with BUCKS, 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 2023-10-02).

Block Diagrams

No block diagrams are available.

Map Units

Map units containing BUCKS 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
Bucks silt loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes	BuA	1428	2495768	2ptj4	md013	2010	1:12000
Bucks silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes	BuB	1306	2495769	2ptj5	md013	2010	1:12000
Bucks silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes	19B	1863	533589	kx7k	md031	1989	1:15840
Goresville and Bucks soils, 3 to 8 percent slopes	GbB	1258	533667	2v7hj	md031	1989	1:15840
Goresville and Bucks soils, 8 to 15 percent slopes	GbC	473	533668	2v7hk	md031	1989	1:15840
Bucks silt loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes	19A	311	533588	kx7j	md031	1989	1:15840
Bucks silt loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes	BucB	6652	548584	ldv8	nj019	1970	1:24000
Penn-Bucks complex, 2 to 6 percent slopes	PepB	4263	1478489	1lmh6	nj019	1970	1:24000
Bucks silt loam, 6 to 12 percent slopes, eroded	BucC2	1165	1478420	1lmdz	nj019	1970	1:24000
Penn-Bucks complex, 6 to 12 percent slopes, eroded	PepC2	929	1478490	1lmh7	nj019	1970	1:24000
Bucks silt loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes	BucB	10081	1445376	1kj11	nj021	1969	1:24000
Bucks silt loam, 6 to 12 percent slopes, eroded	BucC2	1563	1482383	1lrjt	nj021	1969	1:24000
Bucks silt loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes, eroded	BucB2	1491	1482382	1lrjs	nj021	1969	1:24000
Bucks silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes	BucA	968	1445375	1kj10	nj021	1969	1:24000
Bucks silt loam, 6 to 12 percent slopes	BucC	499	1482381	1lrjr	nj021	1969	1:24000
Bucks silt loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes	BucB	3206	1404992	1j50b	nj035	1972	1:24000
Bucks silt loam, 6 to 12 percent slopes, eroded	BucC2	635	1404993	1j50c	nj035	1972	1:24000
Penn-Bucks complex, 6 to 12 percent slopes, eroded	PepC2	69	1405075	1j530	nj035	1972	1:24000
Penn-Bucks complex, 2 to 6 percent slopes	PepB	6	1405074	1j52z	nj035	1972	1:24000
Bucks silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes	BuB	13816	542729	l6rd	pa071	1982	1:15840
Bucks silt loam, 8 to 15 percent slopes	BuC	5663	542730	l6rf	pa071	1982	1:15840
Bucks silt loam, 15 to 25 percent slopes	BuD	918	542731	l6rg	pa071	1982	1:15840
Bucks very stony silt loam, 8 to 25 percent slopes	BxC	477	542732	l6rh	pa071	1982	1:15840
Bucks silt loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes	BuA	364	542728	l6rc	pa071	1982	1:15840
Bucks silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes	ByB	1807	541279	l57m	pa075	1976	1:20000
Bucks loam, permeable substratum, 2 to 7 percent slopes, eroded	BsB	376	516937	kbxd	va113	1967	1:15840
Bucks loam, permeable substratum, 7 to 15 percent slopes, eroded	BsC2	134	516938	kbxf	va113	1967	1:15840
Bucks silt loam, 2 to 7 percent slopes, moderately eroded	BsB2	1888	119792	2z1vy	va137	1966	1:15840
Bucks silt loam, conglomerate substratum, 7 to 15 percent slopes, moderately eroded	BtC2	784	119795	2z1w1	va137	1966	1:15840
Bucks silt loam, 7 to 15 percent slopes, moderately eroded	BsC2	772	119793	2z1vz	va137	1966	1:15840
Bucks silt loam, conglomerate substratum, 2 to 7 percent slopes, moderately eroded	BtB2	740	119794	2z1w0	va137	1966	1:15840
Bucks silty clay loam, 7 to 15 percent slopes, severely eroded	BuC3	136	119796	40nd	va137	1966	1:15840

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the BUCKS 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 2023-10-04).