Soil Data Explorer - ERICSON

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the ERICSON soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of ERICSON, 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 ERICSON 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 ERICSON 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 ERICSON series. Sketches are arranged according to their subgroup-level taxonomic structure. Source: SSURGO snapshot (updated 2024-10-24), parsed OSD records (updated 2024-10-23) and snapshot of SC database (updated 2024-10-23).

Select annual climate data summaries for the ERICSON 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 2024-10-23).

Geomorphic description summaries for the ERICSON 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 2024-10-23).

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

Competing Series

Soil series competing with ERICSON share the same family level classification in Soil Taxonomy. Source: parsed OSD records (updated 2024-10-23) and snapshot of the SC database (updated 2024-10-23).

Select annual climate data summaries for the ERICSON 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 2024-10-23).

Geomorphic description summaries for the ERICSON 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 2024-10-23).

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 ERICSON, 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 2024-10-23).

Block Diagrams

No block diagrams are available.

Map Units

Map units containing ERICSON 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
Jughandle-Ericson association	58	225	2686334	558t	id609	1989	1:24000
Ericson-Rock outcrop complex	36	102	2686329	5581	id609	1989	1:24000
Ericson loam, 4 to 25 percent slopes	34	55	2686328	557z	id609	1989	1:24000
Jughandle-Ericson association	58	3051	154033	558t	id617	1976	1:24000
Ericson loam, 4 to 25 percent slopes	34	2109	154007	557z	id617	1976	1:24000
Ericson loam, 25 to 40 percent slopes	35	1536	154008	5580	id617	1976	1:24000
Ericson-Rock outcrop complex	36	1184	154009	5581	id617	1976	1:24000
Jughandle-Ericson association	617058	4	3417658	558t	id700		1:24000
Ericson, high effective precipitation-Ericson-Namela families, complex, 5 to 55 percent slopes	978	1092	2963884	2wv3c	id713		1:24000
Ericson-Kingmine-Sambrito families, complex, 5 to 30 percent slopes	958	519	2963863	2wv2j	id713		1:24000
Crossley-Nielsen-Ericson family, complex, 5 to 40 percent slopes	934	320	2963894	2wv3q	id713		1:24000
Mikesell-Ericson-Odark, stony families, complex, 4 to 15 percent slopes	201D	4444	3005117	2v7zx	mt600	1969	1:24000
Ericson family, very stony-Leighcan family-Ipasha, occasionally flooded complex, 0 to 15 percent slopes	282D	160	3005107	2v804	mt600	1969	1:24000
Mikesell-Ericson-Odark, stony families, complex, 4 to 15 percent slopes	201D	159	2911099	2v7zx	mt632		1:24000
Ericson family, very stony-Leighcan family-Ipasha, occasionally flooded complex, 0 to 15 percent slopes	282D	8504	2851850	2v804	mt663	2017	1:24000
Mikesell-Ericson-Odark, stony families, complex, 4 to 15 percent slopes	201D	7796	2851841	2v7zx	mt663	2017	1:24000
Ericson-Nooney-Bigcoulee families, association, 8 to 35 percent slopes, Broadly Defined	18	90272	620349	ntj8	wy661	1985	1:24000
Ericson-Nooney families, association, 15 to 60 percent slopes, Broadly Defined	5	86935	620333	nthr	wy661	1985	1:24000
Ericson-Currycreek-Nooney families, association, 8 to 60 percent slopes, Broadly Defined	10	63386	620335	ntht	wy661	1985	1:24000
Ericson-Midfork-Nooney families, association, 15 to 70 percent slopes, Broadly Defined	12	44280	620336	nthv	wy661	1985	1:24000
Ericson-Bigcoulee families, association, 8 to 35 percent slopes, Broadly Defined	7	29532	620334	nths	wy661	1985	1:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the ERICSON 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 2024-10-30).