Soil Data Explorer - CARSITAS

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the CARSITAS soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of CARSITAS, 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 CARSITAS 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 CARSITAS 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 CARSITAS 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 CARSITAS 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 CARSITAS 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).

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Competing Series

Soil series competing with CARSITAS 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 CARSITAS 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 CARSITAS 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.

Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with CARSITAS, 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 CARSITAS 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
Carsitas gravelly sand, 0 to 9 percent slopes	CdC	67477	464008	hkv0	ca680	1974	1:24000
Carsitas cobbly sand, 2 to 9 percent slopes	ChC	34000	464011	hkv3	ca680	1974	1:24000
Carsitas fine sand, 0 to 5 percent slopes	CkB	24402	464012	hkv4	ca680	1974	1:24000
Carsitas gravelly sand, 9 to 30 percent slopes	CdE	4257	464009	hkv1	ca680	1974	1:24000
Carsitas sand, wet, 0 to 5 percent slopes	CfB	3275	464010	hkv2	ca680	1974	1:24000
Carsitas variant, 5 to 30 percent slopes	CmE	1940	464014	hkv6	ca680	1974	1:24000
Carsitas variant, 2 to 5 percent slopes	CmB	755	464013	hkv5	ca680	1974	1:24000
Carsitas-Rositas-Buzzardsprings complex, 0 to 5 percent slopes	704		3295951	2y0mc	ca681	1968	1:24000
Carsitas gravelly sand, 0 to 5 percent slopes	103	7011	455492	h8z9	ca683	1976	1:24000
Carsitas complex, 4 to 8 percent slopes	2421	4009	2450610	2n81y	ca794	2012	1:24000
Goldrose-Carsitas-Chemwash complex, 4 to 8 percent slopes	1555	2610	2454824	2ndfw	ca794	2012	1:24000
Rizzo-Chemwash-Carsitas complex, 4 to 8 percent slopes	2409	1130	2454823	2ndfv	ca794	2012	1:24000
Carsitas complex, 0 to 4 percent slopes	2420	633	2517409	2qb18	ca794	2012	1:24000
Carsitas complex, 4 to 8 percent slopes	2421	4609	2535492	2n81y	ca803		1:24000
Goldrose-Carsitas-Chemwash complex, 4 to 8 percent slopes	1555	3726	2508190	2ndfw	ca803		1:24000
Rizzo-Chemwash-Carsitas complex, 4 to 8 percent slopes	2409	981	2508192	2ndfv	ca803		1:24000
Carsitas complex, 0 to 4 percent slopes	2420	573	2535491	2qb18	ca803		1:24000
Carsitas cobbly sand, 2 to 9 percent slopes	ChC	83	2535525	hkv3	ca803		1:24000
Carsitas gravelly sand, 0 to 9 percent slopes	CdC	28	2535527	hkv0	ca803		1:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the CARSITAS 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).