Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the EBBERT soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of EBBERT, 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 EBBERT 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
108A80IL1150171980IL115017Ebbert1Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties39.9145278,-88.9257557
11369IL0230011969IL023001Ebbert3Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties39.2547975,-88.0039808
11369IL0230021969IL023002Ebbert3Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties39.256653,-88.0030558
11389P037589IL035019Ebbert4Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties39.3488884,-88.0369415
11391P0295S1990IL189039EBBERT4Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties38.4680557,-89.3249969
114B78IL0050051978IL005005Ebbert1Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties38.9491065,-89.4615221
94A92P037591MI119002Ebbert6Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties45.1899986,-84.1455536

Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the EBBERT 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 EBBERT 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 EBBERT 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 EBBERT 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 mountains figure.

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

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Competing Series

Soil series competing with EBBERT 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 EBBERT 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 EBBERT 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 EBBERT, 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. IL-2010-09-01-07 | Fayette County - 1997

    Typical pattern of soils and parent material in the Cisne-Hoyleton-Darmstadt association (Soil Survey of Fayette County, Illinois; 1997).

  2. IL-2011-08-04-08 | Effingham County - 1991

    Pattern of soils and parent material in the Cisine-Hoyleton-Newberry association (Soil Survey of Effingham County, Illinois; 1991).

Map Units

Map units containing EBBERT 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
Ebbert silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes48A22471738672wk1jil00519811:12000
Ebbert silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes48A2162617742wk1jil02119991:12000
Ebbert silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes48A1221815960102wk1jil02320061:12000
Ebbert silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes48A88815474512wk1jil02920051:12000
Ebbert silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes48A231748392wk1jil03519921:15840
Ebbert silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes48A56101734572wk1jil04919861:15840
Ebbert silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes48A49421734122wk1jil05119911:15840
Ebbert silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes48A270814449332wk1jil07920051:12000
Ebbert silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes48A460317211752wk1jil13520071:12000
Ebbert silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes48A51020273052wk1jil15919671:12000
Ebbert silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes48A47115289222wk1jil18920061:12000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the EBBERT 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 .