Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

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

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Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the BURSON 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 BURSON 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 BURSON 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 BURSON 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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Competing Series

Soil series competing with BURSON 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 BURSON 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 BURSON 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 BURSON, 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-2010-11-02-22 | Carson County -

    General relationship of the soils in Carson County (Soil Survey of Carson County, Texas).

Map Units

Map units containing BURSON 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
Woodward-Quinlan-Burson complex, 3 to 5 percent slopes, erodedWQBC2456225462w5qqok00319711:24000
Quinlan-Woodward-Burson complex, 12 to 45 percent slopesQWBG32555385225dxvmok15119951:24000
Woodward-Quinlan-Burson complex, 3 to 5 percent slopes, erodedWQBC293933852492w5qqok15119951:24000
Quinlan-Woodward-Burson complex, 5 to 12 percent slopes, erodedQWBE27290385224dxvlok15119951:24000
Quinlan and Burson soils, hillyQBG82511363295d616tx04519721:20000
Burson and Quinlan soils steepBQG72224363269d60ctx04519721:20000
Burson-Quinlan-Rock outcrop association, 8 to 45 percent slopesBQG1424377944dp8rtx06520001:24000
Knoco-Burson complexVx11529363854d6m7tx07519611:20000
Burson-Aspermont association, steepBAG12747365165d7zjtx12919751:24000
Burson stony loam, steepBxF22731367908dbv0tx23319721:24000
Obaro-Burson complex, 3 to 12 percent slopesOcE3891370885dfy1tx34519721:24000
Burson-Quinlan association, hilly213772370987dg1btx35319791:24000
Quinlan-Burson-Woodward association, rolling324686371001dg1stx35319791:24000
Quay-Glenrio-Burson association, rollingQGB1051323124165dg67tx35919781:24000
Burson-Knoco-Rock outcrop association, steepBKG229883124136dg59tx35919781:24000
Burson-Quinlan-Rock outcrop association, steepBQG311403124210dgd5tx37519741:24000
Knoco-Quinlan-Burson association, 5 to 50 percent slopesKQB10418371416dgh5tx38119991:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the BURSON 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 .