Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the GUADALUPE soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of GUADALUPE, 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 GUADALUPE were used in the calculation. Source: KSSL snapshot . 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 GUADALUPE 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 GUADALUPE 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 GUADALUPE 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 GUADALUPE 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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Competing Series

Soil series competing with GUADALUPE 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 GUADALUPE 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 GUADALUPE 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 terrace figure.

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

Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with GUADALUPE, 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. TX-2010-11-02-24 | Carson County -

    Typical arrangement of soils in the Manson-Paloduro-Potter association (Soil Survey of Carson County, Texas).

  2. TX-2012-03-21-37 | Lipscomb County - December 1975

    Pattern of soils and underlying material in association 4 (Soil Survey of Lipscomb County, TX; 1975).

  3. TX-2012-03-22-06 | Wheeler County - October 1975

    Relationship of soils in the Grandfield-Hardeman association to parent material and relief (Soil Survey of Wheeler County, TX; 1975).

Map Units

Map units containing GUADALUPE 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
Guadalupe sandy loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, rarely flooded53994584138182530krwks11919731:24000
Guadalupe fine sandy loamGU9414376347dmm7nm02119681:31680
Guadalupe fine sandy loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, occasionally floodedGlpB519031012912w83xok00720211:24000
Guadalupe fine sandy loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes, rarely floodedBa7566382416dty0ok04519631:24000
Guadalupe fine sandy loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, frequently floodedLm50303624752w83wtx01119631:20000
Guadalupe fine sandy loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, occasionally floodedGUA30013779742w83xtx06520001:24000
Guadalupe fine sandy loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, occasionally floodedGu67063651732w83xtx12919751:24000
Guadalupe soils, 0 to 2 percent slopes, frequently floodedGUA506695966rc6jtx15320041:24000
Spur and Guadalupe soils, 0 to 2 percent slopes, occasionally floodedSg3792391954f4vptx17919651:20000
Guadalupe and Texroy soilsGt1438366940d9tstx19119651:20000
Guadalupe fine sandy loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, frequently floodedGUA416819484222w83wtx19520071:24000
Guadalupe fine sandy loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, occasionally floodedGu29493674382w83xtx20519731:24000
Guadalupe fine sandy loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, occasionally floodedGu25173675642w83xtx21119671:20000
Guadalupe fine sandy loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, occasionally floodedYa16183679462w83xtx23319721:24000
Guadalupe fine sandy loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, occasionally floodedGu56343694562w83xtx29519711:24000
Guadalupe fine sandy loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, occasionally floodedGu78333715152w83xtx39319791:24000
Guadalupe fine sandy loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, occasionally floodedGu78703733032w83xtx48319701:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the GUADALUPE 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 .