Soil Data Explorer - GORE

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the GORE soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of GORE, 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 GORE were used in the calculation. Source: KSSL snapshot (updated 2020-03-13). 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 GORE 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 GORE series. Sketches are arranged according to their subgroup-level taxonomic structure. Source: SSURGO snapshot (updated 2024-02-21), parsed OSD records (updated 2023-10-02) and snapshot of SC database (updated 2023-10-02).

Select annual climate data summaries for the GORE 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 2023-10-09).

Geomorphic description summaries for the GORE 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 2023-10-04).

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

Competing Series

Soil series competing with GORE share the same family level classification in Soil Taxonomy. Source: parsed OSD records (updated 2023-10-02) and snapshot of the SC database (updated 2023-10-02).

Select annual climate data summaries for the GORE 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 2023-10-09).

Geomorphic description summaries for the GORE 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 2023-10-04).

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

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

Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with GORE, 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 2023-10-02).

Block Diagrams

Click a link below to display the diagram. Note that these diagrams may be from multiple survey areas.

1. LA-2012-02-01-01 | Bossier Parish - August 1962

   Physiographic relationships of general soil areas in the northwestern part of Bossier Parish. The area represented is about 12 miles square (Soil Survey of Bossier Parish, Louisiana; August 1962).

2. LA-2012-04-27-05 | Avoyelles Parish - September 1986

   Pattern of soils, topography, and underlying material in General Soil Map Units 13 and 14 (Soil Survey of Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana; September 1986).

Map Units

Map units containing GORE 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
Gore silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes	15	1598	565350	lz93	ar027	1983	1:20000
Gore silt loam, 1 to 3 percent slopes	14	703	565349	lz92	ar027	1983	1:20000
Gore silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes	8	4677	565683	lzmv	ar057	1976	1:20000
Gore silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes	Ge	843	565969	lzy2	ar095	1974	1:20000
Gore silt loam, 1 to 3 percent slopes	12	6288	566638	m0mn	ar145	1980	1:20000
Gore silt loam, 1 to 3 percent slopes	27	17197	564900	lytl	ar670	1981	1:20000
Gore silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes	28	11698	564901	lytm	ar670	1981	1:20000
Gore very fine sandy loam, 1 to 5 percent slopes	Gf	2978	1586106	1q7gq	la003	1978	1:24000
Gore (cadeville) very fine sandy loam, 1 to 5 percent slopes	Cf	1683	1586098	1q7gg	la003	1978	1:24000
Gore silt loam, 1 to 5 percent slopes	Gr	6454	1711936	2tglv	la009	1981	1:24000
Gore very fine sandy loam, 1 to 5 percent slopes	GrC	7407	1725707	1vxqz	la011	1993	1:24000
Gore very fine sandy loam, 5 to 12 percent slopes	GRE	5025	1725702	1vxqt	la011	1993	1:24000
Gore very fine sandy loam, 12 to 20 percent slopes	GRF	3171	1725703	1vxqv	la011	1993	1:24000
Gore silt loam, 1 to 5 percent slopes	GoC	23610	570960	2tglv	la015	2005	1:24000
Gore silt loam, 5 to 12 percent slopes	GoE	10681	570961	m543	la015	2005	1:24000
Gore very fine sandy loam, 1 to 5 percent slopes	GoC	9727	2805713	2ssx6	la017	2013	1:24000
Urban land-Gore complex, 1 to 5 percent slopes	UGC	2697	2805751	2ssy9	la017	2013	1:24000
Gore very fine sandy loam, 5 to 12 percent slopes	GoE	1703	2805714	2ssx7	la017	2013	1:24000
Gore silt loam, 1 to 5 percent slopes	Gg	974	1413683	1jg1p	la019	1983	1:24000
Gore silt loam, 1 to 5 percent slopes	Gr	97	1725647	2tglv	la021	1985	1:24000
Gore silt loam, 1 to 5 percent slopes, moist	Go	7624	1724539	2tglw	la031	1986	1:24000
Gore silt loam, 5 to 12 percent slopes	Gr	18017	1527463	1n8g0	la043	1982	1:24000
Gore silt loam, 1 to 5 percent slopes, moist	Go	6550	1527462	2tglw	la043	1982	1:24000
Gore silt loam, 1 to 5 percent slopes	GrC	2502	1414674	1jh2n	la053	1989	1:24000
Gore silt loam, 5 to 15 percent slopes	Go	6710	1600171	1qq3f	la059	1986	1:24000
Gore silt loam, 1 to 5 percent slopes	Gr	13795	1903105	2tglv	la069	1983	1:24000
Gore very fine sandy loam, 1 to 5 percent slopes	GrC	35438	569958	m42r	la079	1973	1:24000
Gore very fine sandy loam, 5 to 12 percent slopes	GrD	35343	569959	m42s	la079	1973	1:24000
Gore-McKamie association, sloping	GSC	5148	1720666	1vrhc	la081	1973	1:24000
Gore very fine sandy loam, 5 to 12 percent slopes	GOE	6980	1725547	1vxkt	la115	1992	1:24000
Gore very fine sandy loam, 1 to 5 percent slopes	GoC	4442	1725550	1vxkx	la115	1992	1:24000
Gore silt loam, 5 to 12 percent slopes	GR	26589	570347	m4h9	la119	1989	1:24000
Gore silt loam, 1 to 5 percent slopes, moist	Go	16608	570349	2tglw	la119	1989	1:24000
Gore silt loam, 5 to 15 percent slopes	GO	3692	1725958	1vy02	la127	1991	1:24000
Gore silt loam, 1 to 5 percent slopes, moist	Ge	1295	1725957	2tglw	la127	1991	1:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the GORE 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 2023-10-04).