Soil Data Explorer - CALIZA

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

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

Competing Series

Soil series competing with CALIZA 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 CALIZA 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 CALIZA 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).

There are insufficient data to create the 3D mountains figure.

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

Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with CALIZA, 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 CALIZA 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
Caliza-Bluepoint complex, 1 to 25 percent slopes	CE	35415	55782	1w1f	nm612	1970	1:24000
Caliza-Bluepoint complex, 1 to 25 percent slopes	Cb	2173	55783	1w1g	nm612	1970	1:24000
Wink-Caliza complex, 1 to 15 percent slopes	Wr	910	55853	1w3q	nm612	1970	1:24000
Caliza-Bluepoint-Yturbide association, very steep	25	8787	56501	1wsm	nm660	1981	1:48000
Nickel-Caliza very gravelly sandy loams, 1 to 30 percent slopes	649	202540	57162	1xgy	nm664	1984	1:24000
Bluepoint-Caliza complex, 1 to 30 percent slopes	690	42708	57171	1xh7	nm664	1984	1:24000
Caliza variant-Urban land complex, 1 to 5 percent slopes	116	1373	57079	1xd8	nm664	1984	1:24000
Adelino variant-Caliza very stony sandy loams, 15 to 50 percent slopes	120	1313	57081	1xdb	nm664	1984	1:24000
Caliza very gravelly sandy loam, 1 to 7 percent slopes	124	842	57083	1xdd	nm664	1984	1:24000
Bluepoint-Caliza-Yturbide complex	BP	96104	634556	p99k	nm690		1:24000
Caliza-Pittman-Arizo complex, 0 to 8 percent slopes	182	5952	469277	hr9z	nv788	1982	1:24000
Caliza very gravelly sandy loam, 2 to 8 percent slopes	184	5909	469279	hrb1	nv788	1982	1:24000
Caliza extremely cobbly fine sandy loam, 2 to 8 percent slopes	187	5733	469280	hrb2	nv788	1982	1:24000
Caliza very cobbly loamy sand, 4 to 8 percent slopes	183	2985	469278	hrb0	nv788	1982	1:24000
Caliza-Pittman extremely stony fine sandy loams, 2 to 8 percent slopes	181	1766	469276	hr9y	nv788	1982	1:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the CALIZA 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).