Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

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

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Pedons used in the lab summary:

MLRALab IDPedon IDTaxonnameCINSSL / NASIS ReportsLink To SoilWeb GMap
1182P090682ID031007Declo7Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties42.0386124,-113.5177765
1186P091586ID023001Declo7Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties43.5166664,-112.9916687
1186P091686ID023002Declo7Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties43.5166664,-112.9916687
n/a40A1048S1964ID011030Declo5Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Propertiesn/a

Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the DECLO 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 DECLO 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 DECLO 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 DECLO 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 DECLO 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 DECLO 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 DECLO 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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Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with DECLO, 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. ID-2011-06-01-02 | Bingham Area - 1973

    Representative pattern of soils in association 2 (Soil Survey of Bingham Area, Idaho; 1973).

Map Units

Map units containing DECLO 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
Declo loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes1511125823462rpbid70719761:24000
Declo loam, 1 to 3 percent slopes163391823472rpcid70719761:24000
Declo loam, 3 to 7 percent slopes172191823482rpdid70719761:24000
Declo sandy loam141704823452rp9id70719761:24000
Declo silt loam, 1 to 3 percent slopes4717197825192rvxid70819871:24000
Declo silt loam, saline, 1 to 3 percent slopes5016481825232rw1id70819871:24000
Declo silt loam, saline, 0 to 1 percent slopes4911521825212rvzid70819871:24000
Declo silt loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes465606825182rvwid70819871:24000
Declo silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes485497825202rvyid70819871:24000
Declo-Darkbull complex, 1 to 8 percent slopes534389825262rw4id70819871:24000
Declo silt loam, strongly saline, 1 to 3 percent slopes524072825252rw3id70819871:24000
Declo-Stanrod association, 4 to 8 percent slopes543755825272rw5id70819871:24000
Declo silt loam, saline, 3 to 8 percent slopes51472825242rw2id70819871:24000
Declo loam, 2 to 4 percent slopes126989825852ry1id70919761:24000
Declo loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes115131825842ry0id70919761:24000
Quincy-Declo-Vining association, rolling771313826562s0bid70919761:24000
Declo loam, 4 to 8 percent slopes131214825862ry2id70919761:24000
Declo fine sandy loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes8818826592s0fid70919761:24000
Declo fine sandy loam, 2 to 4 percent slopes9724826702s0sid70919761:24000
Declo loam, 8 to 12 percent slopes14567825872ry3id70919761:24000
Declo variant loam, 2 to 4 percent slopes, very bouldery16423825892ry5id70919761:24000
Declo loam, 12 to 20 percent slopes15377825882ry4id70919761:24000
Declo fine sandy loam, 4 to 8 percent slopes10113825782rxtid70919761:24000
Pasatiipe-Declo complex, 0 to 2 percent slopes1623363255311g7id71019681:24000
Declo-Kukvey-Teppipaasiwatiipe complex, 0 to 2 percent slopes1143363242311ftid71019681:24000
Declo loam, 0 to 2 percent slopesDcA7115827102s22id71019681:24000
Declo loam, saline-alkali, 0 to 2 percent slopesDeA3738827132s25id71019681:24000
Declo loam, saline-alkali, 2 to 4 percent slopesDeB2110827142s26id71019681:24000
Declo loam, undulatingDDD1390827072s1zid71019681:24000
Declo loam, 2 to 4 percent slopesDcB958827112s23id71019681:24000
Declo loam, saline-alkali, 4 to 8 percent slopesDeC525827152s27id71019681:24000
Declo loam, 4 to 8 percent slopesDcC380827122s24id71019681:24000
Declo loam, hardpan variant, 0 to 4 percent slopesDHB337827082s20id71019681:24000
Declo loam, 0 to 2 percent slopesDeA37451799112p4sid77019681:24000
Declo loam, 2 to 4 percent slopesDeB6161799122p4tid77019681:24000
Declo loam, 4 to 8 percent slopesDeC3020799132p4vid77019681:24000
Declo fine sandy loam, 0 to 2 percent slopesDcA2712799082p4pid77019681:24000
Declo loam, 8 to 12 percent slopesDeD925799142p4wid77019681:24000
Declo fine sandy loam, 2 to 4 percent slopesDcB834799092p4qid77019681:24000
Declo fine sandy loam, 4 to 8 percent slopesDcC266799102p4rid77019681:24000
Declo loam, 12 to 20 percent slopes, erodedDeE2233799152p4xid77019681:24000
Declo-Lembos-Tarnach association, 1 to 6 percent slopes2749357481234j4rput60119851:24000
Declo-Darkbull association, 1 to 10 percent slopes2615309481233j4rnut60119851:24000
Mellor-Declo silt loams, 2 to 12 percent slopes522976481262j4slut60119851:24000
Delco loam, 1 to 3 percent slopes251329481232j4rmut60119851:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the DECLO 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 .