Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the ELECTRA soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of ELECTRA, 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 ELECTRA 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
138S12_0091979-FL023-S12_009Electra3Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties30.0121746,-82.5751114
155S64_0101974-FL127-S64_010Electra3Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties29.2040062,-81.1042709
155S56_0151975-FL111-S56_015Electra3Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties27.3199444,-80.3182297
155S25_0091979-FL049-S25_009Electra3Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties27.5783672,-81.7843094
155S36_0241981-FL071-S36_024Electra3Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties26.7073231,-81.5790024
155S31_0071982-FL061-S31_007Electra3Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties27.7708778,-80.5083542

Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the ELECTRA 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 ELECTRA 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 ELECTRA 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 ELECTRA 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.

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Competing Series

Soil series competing with ELECTRA 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 ELECTRA 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 ELECTRA 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 ELECTRA, 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

No block diagrams are available.

Map Units

Map units containing ELECTRA 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
Electra fine sand, 0 to 5 percent slopes8861147337330c6ffl00919901:24000
Electra fine sand, 0 to 2 percent slopes7630431028462x9dqfl01519821:20000
Electra fine sand-Urban land complex, 0 to 2 percent slopes10830030458402x9drfl01519821:20000
Electra variant fine sand, occasionally flooded231320797443vrszfl02319811:24000
Electra variant fine sand, 0 to 5 percent slopes22770797442vrsyfl02319811:24000
Electra fine sand, 0 to 2 percent slopes2646013844042x9dqfl04919811:20000
Electra variant fine sand, 0 to 5 percent slopes191250322081bt4qfl05319761:20000
Electra fine sand, 0 to 5 percent slopes4871075676830c6ffl06119841:20000
Electra fine sand, 0 to 2 percent slopes7660631028482x9dqfl07119821:20000
Electra fine sand-Urban land complex, 0 to 2 percent slopes10823531028472x9drfl07119821:20000
Electra Variant fine sand, 0 to 5 percent slopes182650323186bv9cfl10119801:20000
Electra fine sand, 0 to 2 percent slopes3874214250282x9dqfl10519871:20000
Electra fine sand, 0 to 2 percent slopes1228003233752x9dqfl10719851:15840
Electra fine sand, 0 to 5 percent slopes121062142116930c6ffl11119901:24000
Electra fine sand, bouldery subsurface45825323653bvsffl11919851:24000
Electra fine sand, 0 to 5 percent slopes222760154412330c6ffl12719771:20000
Electra sand, 0 to 5 percent slopes26471717129091vhf4fl60819791:15840

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the ELECTRA 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 .