Soil Data Explorer - GRAVEL PIT

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the GRAVEL PIT soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of GRAVEL PIT, 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 GRAVEL PIT were used in the calculation. Source: KSSL snapshot (updated 2020-03-18). Methods used to assemble the KSSL snapshot used by SoilWeb / SDE

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Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the GRAVEL PIT 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 GRAVEL PIT series. Sketches are arranged according to their subgroup-level taxonomic structure. Source: SSURGO snapshot (updated 2024-02-21), parsed OSD records (updated 2023-10-06) and snapshot of SC database (updated 2023-10-02).

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Select annual climate data summaries for the GRAVEL PIT 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).

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Geomorphic description summaries for the GRAVEL PIT 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).

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Competing Series

Soil series competing with GRAVEL PIT share the same family level classification in Soil Taxonomy. Source: parsed OSD records (updated 2023-10-06) and snapshot of the SC database (updated 2023-10-02).

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Select annual climate data summaries for the GRAVEL PIT 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).

There are insufficient data to create the annual climate figure.

Geomorphic description summaries for the GRAVEL PIT 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 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 GRAVEL PIT, 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).

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Block Diagrams

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Map Units

Map units containing GRAVEL PIT 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
Gravel pit	GPI	30	1718495	1vp7b	az635	1968	1:31680
Gravel pit	GPI	1506	53421	1sl8	az651	1972	1:20000
Gravel pit	GPI	417	53531	1spt	az655	1969	1:20000
Gravel pit	GPI	220	705064	rnp0	az665	1971	1:20000
Pits, gravel	600	2533	277422	99p3	ma607	1975	1:15840
Gravel pits	Gp	525	848248	xgnv	mi117	1956	1:20000
Gravel pit	Gc	510	188263	69x0	mi151	1955	1:15840
Gravel pit	Gp	2791	1607227	1qyg1	mi161	1974	1:20000
Gravel pit	GP	297	1612734	1r45p	ms005	1971	1:20000
Gravel pits	Gp	471	1385428	1hhn7	ms025	1974	1:20000
Gravel pit	GP	120	1676135	1t84w	ms065	1972	1:20000
Gravel pit	GP	372	608932	nfmz	ms073	1969	1:20000
Gravel pit	Gp	237	331211	c3n7	ms113	1965	1:15840
Gravel pit	GP	60	1602281	1qs9h	ms137	1964	1:15840
Gravel pits	GPI	594	579372	mfwf	ms163	1969	1:20000
Gravel Pit	GP	6	2610233	2r8cm	mt624	2021	1:24000
Gravel pit	GP	134	508142	k1rp	nm007	1974	1:24000
Gravel pit	GP	110	1014490	131nh	nm023	1967	1:31680
Gravel pit	GP	274	55881	1w4m	nm614	1966	1:20000
Gravel pit	GP	167	1146553	17h2l	nm630	1977	1:48000
Gravel pit	GP	318	1474004	1lgtj	nm674	1965	1:24000
Gravel pit	GP	388	394491	f7hj	nm676	1969	1:31680
Gravel pit	GP	100	634567	p99x	nm690		1:24000
Gravel Pit	GP	470	2518413	1nrd4	ny043	2018	1:24000
Gravel pit	GP	874	295476	9xgh	ny111	1974	1:15840
Pits, gravel	Po	77	709027	rssv	oh033	1975	1:15840
Pits, gravel	Pg	867	288351	9p1n	oh103	1974	1:15840
Gravel pit	Gp	78	1429081	1jz2d	sc063	1972	1:20000
Gravel Pits	GP	115	1480452	1lpjj	tn131	1966	1:15840
GRAVEL PIT	Gp	356	482720	j69m	ut603	1968	1:20000
Gravel pits	GP	160	484823	j8hg	ut641	1971	1:24000
Gravel pit	GP	2197	119302	404g	va087	1973	1:15840
Gravel pit	GP	5	605446	nb0j	va113	1967	1:15840
Gravel Pit	GP	59	1020300	137px	va115	1960	1:20000
Gravel pit	Gp	21	1860680	20g5y	wv601	1966	1:15840
GRAVEL PIT	GP		152681	53w6	wy629		1:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the GRAVEL PIT 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).