Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the ELLIBER soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of ELLIBER, 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 ELLIBER 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
14769PA0090011969PA009001Elliber4Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties40.0972222,-78.6305556
14769PA0090021969PA009002Elliber4Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties40.1183333,-78.6127778
14769PA1090011969PA109001Elliber5Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties40.7097222,-77.0588889
14769PA1090031969PA109003Elliber5Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties40.8158333,-76.8930556
14770PA0670121970PA067012Elliber5Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties40.6236111,-77.2463889
14770PA0870011970PA087001Elliber5Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties40.58,-77.6383333
14770PA0990061970PA099006Elliber4Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties40.4391667,-77.1563889
14770PA0990071970PA099007Elliber5Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties40.3944444,-77.3108333
14770PA0990081970PA099008Elliber4Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties40.3541667,-77.2719444
14770PA0990091970PA099009Elliber5Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties40.3841667,-77.3447222

Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the ELLIBER 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 ELLIBER 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 ELLIBER 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 ELLIBER 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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There are insufficient data to create the 3D terrace figure.

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

Competing Series

Soil series competing with ELLIBER 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 ELLIBER 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 ELLIBER 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 terrace figure.

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

Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with ELLIBER, 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. PA-2012-03-13-22 | Cumberland and Perry Counties - April 1986

    Typical pattern of soils and underlying material in the Elliber-Kreamer association (Soil Survey of Cumberland and Perry Counties, PA; 1986).

  2. PA-2012-03-14-09 | Northumberland County - March 1985

    Typical pattern of soils and underlying material in the Edom-Elliber-Hagerstown association (Soil Survey of Northumberland County, PA; 1985).

  3. VA-2012-05-11-17 | Washington County Area and the City of Bristol - 2006

    Schematic cross section of the major geologic strata and dominant soils in Washington County (A-A´). Route of cross section is shown in figure 9 (Soil Survey of Washington County Area and the City of Bristol, Virginia; 2006).

Map Units

Map units containing ELLIBER 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
Elliber extremely gravelly loam, 25 to 45 percent slopesEkE259324011442lll8md00120091:12000
Elliber extremely gravelly loam, 15 to 25 percent slopesEkD162224011432lll7md00120091:12000
Elliber extremely gravelly loam, 8 to 15 percent slopesEkC108224011422lll6md00120091:12000
Elliber extremely gravelly loam, 45 to 65 percent slopesEkF69724011452lll9md00120091:12000
Elliber extremely gravelly loam, 3 to 8 percent slopesEkB51824011412lll5md00120091:12000
Elliber very channery loam, 25 to 45 percent slopesElE4992541796l5s9pa00919891:24000
Elliber very channery loam, 15 to 25 percent slopesElD3325541795l5s8pa00919891:24000
Elliber very channery loam, 8 to 15 percent slopesElC3188541794l5s7pa00919891:24000
Elliber very channery loam, 3 to 8 percent slopesElB970541793l5s6pa00919891:24000
Elliber very channery loam, 3 to 8 percent slopesElB35886617yrlkpa01319781:20000
Elliber very channery loam, 15 to 25 percent slopesElD15886618yrllpa01319781:20000
Elliber very channery silt loam, 8 to 15 percent slopesEgC370544857l8z1pa05719991:24000
Elliber very channery silt loam, 15 to 25 percent slopesEgD260544858l8z2pa05719991:24000
Elliber very channery silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopesEgB112544856l8z0pa05719991:24000
Elliber very cherty loam, 15 to 30 percent slopesElD919541990l5zkpa06119741:20000
Elliber very cherty loam, 5 to 15 percent slopesElC779541989l5zjpa06119741:20000
Elliber cherty silt loam, 8 to 15 percent slopesEsC1155538984l2vlpa09319801:20000
Elliber cherty silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopesEsB564538983l2vkpa09319801:20000
Elliber cherty silt loam, 15 to 25 percent slopesEsD314538985l2vmpa09319801:20000
Elliber very cherty silt loam, 15 to 25 percent slopesEtD106538988l2vqpa09319801:20000
Elliber very cherty silt loam, 25 to 70 percent slopesEtF80538989l2vrpa09319801:20000
Elliber very cherty silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopesEtB59538986l2vnpa09319801:20000
Elliber very cherty silt loam, 8 to 15 percent slopesEtC52538987l2vppa09319801:20000
Elliber cherty silt loam, 8 to 15 percent slopesEsC1570539622l3j5pa09719801:20000
Elliber cherty silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopesEsB1306539621l3j4pa09719801:20000
Elliber very cherty silt loam, 25 to 70 percent slopesEtF440539627l3jbpa09719801:20000
Elliber very cherty silt loam, 8 to 15 percent slopesEtC298539625l3j8pa09719801:20000
Elliber cherty silt loam, 15 to 25 percent slopesEsD273539623l3j6pa09719801:20000
Elliber very cherty silt loam, 15 to 25 percent slopesEtD271539626l3j9pa09719801:20000
Elliber very cherty silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopesEtB196539624l3j7pa09719801:20000
Elliber very cherty silt loam, 8 to 15 percent slopesEeC7311693948r93fpa09919801:15840
Elliber very cherty silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopesEeB4511693947r93dpa09919801:15840
Elliber very stony silt loam, 8 to 25 percent slopesEfD3911693951r93jpa09919801:15840
Elliber very cherty silt loam, 15 to 25 percent slopesEeD2021693949r93gpa09919801:15840
Elliber very stony silt loam, 25 to 50 percent slopesEfF1962693952r93kpa09919801:15840
Elliber very stony silt loam, 0 to 8 percent slopesEfB1314693950r93hpa09919801:15840
Elliber very cherty silt loam, 25 to 70 percent slopesEtF3189540809l4rgpa10919801:20000
Elliber cherty silt loam, 8 to 15 percent slopesEsC1307540804l4r9pa10919801:20000
Elliber cherty silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopesEsB1276540803l4r8pa10919801:20000
Elliber very cherty silt loam, 15 to 25 percent slopesEtD1156540808l4rfpa10919801:20000
Elliber very cherty silt loam, 8 to 15 percent slopesEtC919540807l4rdpa10919801:20000
Elliber cherty silt loam, 15 to 25 percent slopesEsD732540805l4rbpa10919801:20000
Elliber very cherty silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopesEtB493540806l4rcpa10919801:20000
Elliber cherty silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopesEsB1255540903l4vhpa11919801:20000
Elliber cherty silt loam, 8 to 15 percent slopesEsC801540904l4vjpa11919801:20000
Elliber very cherty silt loam, 8 to 15 percent slopesEtC611540907l4vmpa11919801:20000
Elliber very cherty silt loam, 15 to 25 percent slopesEtD460540908l4vnpa11919801:20000
Elliber very cherty silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopesEtB337540906l4vlpa11919801:20000
Elliber cherty silt loam, 15 to 25 percent slopesEsD126540905l4vkpa11919801:20000
Elliber very cherty silt loam, 25 to 70 percent slopesEtF76540909l4vppa11919801:20000
Elliber very cherty loam, 25 to 60 percent slopesElF5294545480l9m4pa60519751:20000
Elliber very cherty loam, 8 to 15 percent slopesElC1900545478l9m2pa60519751:20000
Elliber very cherty loam, 15 to 25 percent slopesElD1900545479l9m3pa60519751:20000
Elliber very cherty loam, 3 to 8 percent slopesElB517545477l9m1pa60519751:20000
Elliber and Jefferson very gravelly soils, 45 to 70 percent slopes34F880517710kcqbva01519781:15840
Elliber very gravelly silt loam, 15 to 45 percent slopes33E458517698kcpyva01519781:15840
Elliber-Watahala complex, 35 to 55 percent slopes17F471525120422q7vpva09120101:24000
Elliber-Watahala complex, 15 to 35 percent slopes17E252625120412q7vnva09120101:24000
Elliber-Watahala complex, 8 to 15 percent slopes17C61325120432q7vqva09120101:24000
Elliber very gravelly silt loam, 25 to 65 percent slopes13E1891519419kfhgva19119981:15840
Elliber very gravelly silt loam, 15 to 25 percent slopes13D577519418kfhfva19119981:15840
Elliber very gravelly silt loam, 7 to 15 percent slopes13C406519417kfhdva19119981:15840
Elliber extremely channery silt loam, 35 to 55 percent slopesElF2629553105lkk3wv02520021:24000
Elliber very channery silt loam, 15 to 25 percent slopesElD127516035341qtlxwv06319621:24000
Elliber very channery silt loam, 25 to 35 percent slopesElE103916035321qtlvwv06319621:24000
Elliber very channery silt loam, 25 to 35 percent slopes, very stonyEnE87216035351qtlywv06319621:24000
Elliber very channery silt loam, 15 to 25 percent slopes, very stonyEnD84216035291qtlrwv06319621:24000
Frederick and Elliber soils, 35 to 60 percent slopes, very rockyFGF71516040801qv5jwv06319621:24000
Elliber very channery silt loam, 35 to 50 percent slopes, very stonyEnF47116035361qtlzwv06319621:24000
Elliber very channery silt loam, 3 to 15 percent slopesElC22516035331qtlwwv06319621:24000
Dekalb-Elliber-Blackthorn association, 35 to 55 percent slopes, stonyDEF48049514149k80gwv07119881:20000
Blackthorn-Dekalb-Elliber association, 15 to 35 percent slopes, stonyBTE19272514130k7zvwv07119881:20000
Blackthorn-Dekalb-Elliber association, 3 to 15 percent slopes, stonyBTC2243514129k7ztwv07119881:20000
Dekalb-Elliber association, 55 to 80 percent slopes, stonyDFG1662514150k80hwv07119881:20000
Elliber extremely channery loam, 35 to 55 percent slopesElF1543514159k80swv07119881:20000
Elliber extremely channery loam, 8 to 15 percent slopesElC1307514156k80pwv07119881:20000
Elliber extremely channery loam, 25 to 35 percent slopesElE1295514158k80rwv07119881:20000
Elliber extremely channery loam, 15 to 25 percent slopesElD1275514157k80qwv07119881:20000
Elliber extremely channery silt loam, 35 to 55 percent slopesElF3331515403k99xwv07519921:24000
Elliber very stony loam, 35 to 65 percent slopesEmF8130555910lnglwv60819731:20000
Elliber very cherty loam, 25 to 35 percent slopesElE2678555908lngjwv60819731:20000
Elliber very cherty loam, 15 to 25 percent slopesElD1163555907lnghwv60819731:20000
Elliber very stony loam, 15 to 35 percent slopesEmE763555909lngkwv60819731:20000
Elliber very cherty loam, 8 to 15 percent slopesElC655555906lnggwv60819731:20000
Elliber very cherty loam, 35 to 65 percent slopesElF7567515909k9v7wv62819801:20000
Elliber very cherty loam, 25 to 35 percent slopesElE3715515908k9v6wv62819801:20000
Elliber very cherty loam, 15 to 25 percent slopesElD3080515907k9v5wv62819801:20000
Elliber stony loam, 35 to 65 percent slopesEmF1742515911k9v9wv62819801:20000
Elliber stony loam, 15 to 35 percent slopesEmE1685515910k9v8wv62819801:20000
Elliber very cherty loam, 8 to 15 percent slopesElC1423515906k9v4wv62819801:20000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the ELLIBER 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 .