Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the GOMEZ soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of GOMEZ, 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 GOMEZ 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
77C95P087595TX445048Gomez7Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties33.1263885,-102.1191635
77D90P059390NM009002Gomez8Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties34.3388901,-103.644165

Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the GOMEZ 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 GOMEZ 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 GOMEZ 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 GOMEZ 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 GOMEZ 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 GOMEZ series and competing. Series are sorted according to hierarchical clustering of median values. Source: SSURGO map unit geometry and 1981-2010, 800m PRISM data .

There are insufficient data to create the annual climate figure.

Geomorphic description summaries for the GOMEZ 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 .

There are insufficient data to create the 2D hillslope position figure.

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

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

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 GOMEZ, 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. NM-2012-02-15-01 | Roosevelt County - March 1967

    Generalized diagram of soil patterns that extend southwest to northeast through Roosevelt County (Soil Survey of Roosevelt County, New Mexico; March 1967).

Map Units

Map units containing GOMEZ 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
Amarillo and Gomez fine sands, 0 to 3 percent slopesAk49473764062tw3znm02519671:20000
Gomez fine sand, dry, 0 to 3 percent slopesGF44093764232wxvknm02519671:20000
Amarillo and Gomez fine sands, dry, 0 to 3 percent slopesAU41923763972tmphnm02519671:20000
Gomez loamy fine sand, dry, 0 to 3 percent slopesGM41853764242tw2ynm02519671:20000
Gomez fine sandy loam, 0 to 3 percent slopesGs2576376426dmpsnm02519671:20000
Gomez loamy fine sand, 0 to 3 percent slopesGoB3751117102092qmzpnm04120141:24000
Gomez loamy fine sand, 0 to 3 percent slopesGoB95053777212qmzpnm66920051:24000
Gomez loamy fine sand, 0 to 3 percent slopesGN2228376122dmcznm67619691:31680
Gomez loamy fine sand, cool, 0 to 3 percent slopesGNcB200831562122yk66nm67619691:31680
Gomez loamy fine sand, 0 to 3 percent slopesGm700376126dmd3nm67619691:31680
Gomez-Arch complex, 0 to 3 percent slopesGa7514362585d599tx01719601:20000
Gomez-Arch complex, 0 to 3 percent slopes, severely erodedGa3544362586d59btx01719601:20000
Gomez loamy fine sand, 0 to 3 percent slopesGoB350629315172qmzptx07919621:20000
Gomez loamy fine sand, 0 to 3 percent slopesGoA22423936102qmzptx11520041:24000
Gomez fine sand, 0 to 3 percent slopesGf122733660402tw2ttx16519641:20000
Gomez loamy fine sand, 0 to 3 percent slopesGl105793660412qmzptx16519641:20000
Gomez loamy fine sand, 0 to 3 percent slopesGo12133918852qmzptx22719651:24000
Gomez loamy fine sand, 0 to 3 percent slopesPn11423942952qmzptx27919601:20000
Gomez fine sandy loam, 0 to 1 percent slopesGsA122773703342tw2vtx31719681:24000
Gomez loamy fine sand, 0 to 2 percent slopesGoB4909370333f5vhtx31719681:24000
Gomez fine sandy loam, 1 to 3 percent slopesGsB41423703352tw2wtx31719681:24000
Gomez fine sandy loam, 0 to 1 percent slopesGmA36753706312tw2vtx32919661:31680
Gomez fine sandy loam, 1 to 3 percent slopesGmB17053706322tw2wtx32919661:31680
Gomez loamy fine sand, 0 to 3 percent slopesGo6373706332qmzptx32919661:31680
Gomez loamy fine sand, 0 to 3 percent slopesGoA16333725502qmzptx44519991:24000
Gomez loamy fine sand, 0 to 3 percent slopesGoB515129314752qmzptx50119621:31680

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the GOMEZ 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 .