Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the JACKS soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of JACKS, 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 JACKS 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
3578P003677AZ005005Jacks7Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties35.4036102,-112.5883331

Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the JACKS 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 JACKS 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 JACKS 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 JACKS 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 terrace figure.

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

Competing Series

Soil series competing with JACKS 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 JACKS 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 JACKS 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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Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with JACKS, 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. AZ-2011-05-27-04 | Beaver Creek Area - 1967

    Typical section of soils, upper part of Beaver Creek Area. Elevations range from 3,800 feet to 8,500 feet (Soil Survey of Beaver Creek Area, Arizona; 1967).

  2. AZ-2011-05-27-23 | Long Valley Area - 1974

    Typical patterns of soil in area south of East Clear Creek (Soil Survey of Long Valley Area, Arizona; 1974).

  3. AZ-2011-05-27-24 | Long Valley Area - 1974

    Typical pattern of soils in area north of East Clear Creek (Soil Survey of Long Valley Area, Arizona; 1974).

Map Units

Map units containing JACKS 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
Jacks very rocky loam, 15 to 30 percent slopesJaD20361528631s08az63719681:31680
Jacks very rocky loam, 3 to 15 percent slopesJaC17195528621s07az63719681:31680
Jacks fine sandy loamJa112615454441nw51az64119651:31680
Jacks very rocky fine sandy loamJc32715454451nw52az64119651:31680
Jacks-Tortugas extremely rocky complex, 20 to 45 percent slopesJtE812115274971n8h3az64319671:31680
Jacks-Tortugas extremely rocky complex, 0 to 20 percent slopesJtD703715274961n8h2az64319671:31680
Jacks fine sandy loam, 0 to 20 percent slopesJaD607015274951n8h1az64319671:31680
Jacks cobbly loam, 30 to 50 percent slopes45E18134539641t4saz68319741:24000
Jacks cobbly clay loam, 8 to 30 percent slopes47D15420539661t4vaz68319741:24000
Roundtop-Jacks-Rock outcrop complex, 15 to 30 percent slopes75D14485539971t5vaz68319741:24000
Jacks cobbly loam, 15 to 30 percent slopes44D13728539631t4raz68319741:24000
Jacks very fine sandy loam, 8 to 15 percent slopes42C4995539611t4paz68319741:24000
Jacks loam, 0 to 8 percent slopes43B4063539621t4qaz68319741:24000
Jacks gravelly clay loam, 8 to 15 percent slopes46C3057539651t4taz68319741:24000
Hailstone family and Jacks family soils and Rock outcrop, 2 to 30 percent slopes820119224841952pd0baz6871:24000
Jacks stony clay loam, deep, 3 to 15 percent slopes95174224839792pcscaz6871:24000
Jacks loam, deep, 3 to 8 percent slopes95065224839782pcsbaz6871:24000
Lithic Haplustepts-Jacks family-Pachic Haplustolls complex, 4 to 40 percent slopes266355224851852sdy4az71320111:24000
Jacks-Flutedrock-Manuelito complex, 0 to 15 percent slopes212684624507992sdxqaz71320111:24000
Typic Ustipsamments-Jacks family complex, 1 to 25 percent slopes59503324850112sdy3az71320111:24000
Jacks family-Jacks complex, 2 to 5 percent slopes20421024954162sdymaz71320111:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the JACKS 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 .