Soil Data Explorer - CASCAJO

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the CASCAJO soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of CASCAJO, 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 CASCAJO 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 CASCAJO 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 CASCAJO series. Sketches are arranged according to their subgroup-level taxonomic structure. Source: SSURGO snapshot (updated 2024-02-21), parsed OSD records (updated 2023-10-06) and snapshot of SC database (updated 2023-10-02).

Select annual climate data summaries for the CASCAJO 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 CASCAJO 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 CASCAJO share the same family level classification in Soil Taxonomy. Source: parsed OSD records (updated 2023-10-06) and snapshot of the SC database (updated 2023-10-02).

Select annual climate data summaries for the CASCAJO 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 CASCAJO 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 CASCAJO, 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

Click a link below to display the diagram. Note that these diagrams may be from multiple survey areas.

1. CO-2011-05-27-10 | Otero County - 1972

   Rocky Ford-Numa-Kornman soil association (Soil Survey of Otero County, Colorado; 1972).

2. CO-2011-05-27-19 | Prowers County - 1966

   Cross sections showing relationships of the soils to the landscape and to the underlying geologic formations in Prowers County. The upper cross section shows relationships in the western part of the county, and the lower shows those in the eastern part of the county (Soil Survey of Prowers County, Colorado; 1966).

Map Units

Map units containing CASCAJO 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
Cascajo very gravelly sandy loam, 2 to 20 percent slopes	CaE	4895	3223745	2t50z	co011	1965	1:15840
Cascajo soils and gravelly land	Ca	3256	94235	351v	co011	1965	1:15840
Cascajo very gravelly sandy loam, 2 to 20 percent slopes	Ca	2351	94357	2t50z	co025	1965	1:15840
Cascajo-Midway, dry-Rock outcrop complex, 1 to 30 percent slopes	Gs	985	94362	2t513	co025	1965	1:15840
Cascajo soils and gravelly land	Ca	4483	110405	3pwg	co087	1965	1:24000
Cascajo very gravelly sandy loam, 2 to 20 percent slopes	Cg	9069	94721	2t50z	co089	1966	1:15840
Numa-Cascajo complex, 3 to 9 percent slopes, very rarely flooded	NvD	1343	2611184	2rgs3	co089	1966	1:15840
Cascajo sandy loam, 3 to 25 percent slopes	CdE	22024	94797	35mz	co099	1963	1:15840
Cascajo gravelly sandy loam, 5 to 20 percent slopes	20	20487	95111	35z3	co617	1980	1:24000
Cascajo gravelly sandy loam, 5 to 20 percent slopes	13	1647	95190	361n	co618	1976	1:24000
Cascajo very gravelly sandy loam, 2 to 20 percent slopes	CaE	26155	95485	2t50z	co626	1974	1:24000
Cascajo-Midway, dry-Rock outcrop complex, 1 to 30 percent slopes	CsE	8053	95486	2t513	co626	1974	1:24000
Kim-Cascajo complex, 1 to 12 percent slopes	27	3427	496462	jnlx	co627	1980	1:24000
Midway, dry-Cascajo complex, 2 to 40 percent slopes	120	78	3223754	2t511	co627	1980	1:24000
Kimera-Cascajo complex, 1 to 12 percent slopes	K2D	4633	105358	2t51w	co628	2008	1:24000
Midway, dry-Cascajo complex, 2 to 40 percent slopes	MC	2025	3223756	2t511	co628	2008	1:24000
Midway, dry-Cascajo complex, 2 to 40 percent slopes	72	6026	498341	2t511	co637	1986	1:24000
Kimera-Cascajo complex, 1 to 12 percent slopes	52	5718	498319	2t51w	co637	1986	1:24000
Cascajo very gravelly sandy loam, 2 to 40 percent slopes	16	1790	498279	2t510	co637	1986	1:24000
Cascajo variant gravelly sandy loam, 5 to 12 percent slopes	17	1474	498280	jqhk	co637	1986	1:24000
Harvey-Cascajo association, 5 to 15 percent slopes	54	33134	56443	1wqr	nm656	1987	1:24000
Cascajo very gravelly sandy loam, 12 to 30 percent slopes	47	9700	56436	1wqj	nm656	1987	1:24000
Cascajo very gravelly sandy loam, 15 to 30 percent slopes	449	62633	57114	1xfd	nm664	1984	1:24000
Cascajo-Taluce-Badland complex, 6 to 40 percent slopes	122	32524	104478	3hq8	wy031	1998	1:24000
Clapper-Cascajo-Eaglenest complex, 2 to 6 percent slopes	2269		3253311	2yn92	wy603		1:24000
Cascajo-Taluce-Badland complex, 6 to 40 percent slopes	118	4609	1669666	1t1f6	wy609	2006	1:24000
Cascajo-Remmit-like-Claprych complex, 2 to 15 percent slopes	2239		2911977	2y4z0	wy629		1:24000
Cascajo very gravelly sandy loam, 10 to 30 percent slopes, very stony	2405		2911904	2w7jb	wy629		1:24000
Cascajo-Larimer-like, occasionally ponded-Kamms-like complex, 1 to 3 percent slopes	2139		3253243	2ztj1	wy629		1:24000
Vonid-Cascajo-Zigweid complex, 1 to 4 percent slopes	1132		3206632	2zc4h	wy629		1:24000
Clapper-Cascajo-Eaglenest complex, 2 to 6 percent slopes	2236		3132832	2yn92	wy629		1:24000
Robertsondraw-Cascajo complex, 0 to 2 percent slopes	2157		3250505	2zv7w	wy629		1:24000
Cascajo-Taluce-Badland complex, 6 to 40 percent slopes	37	25	1414807	1jh6y	wy715	1974	1:20000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the CASCAJO 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).