Soil Data Explorer - KEATING

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the KEATING soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of KEATING, 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 KEATING were used in the calculation. Source: KSSL snapshot (updated 2020-03-18). 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 KEATING 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 KEATING 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).

Select annual climate data summaries for the KEATING 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 KEATING 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 flats position figure.

Competing Series

Soil series competing with KEATING 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).

Select annual climate data summaries for the KEATING 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 KEATING 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 flats position figure.

Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with KEATING, 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

No block diagrams are available.

Map Units

Map units containing KEATING 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
Deven-Pass Canyon-Keating families complex, 15 to 35 percent slopes.	156	16920	470473	hskk	ca703	1983	1:24000
Keating-Deven families association, 1 to 20 percent slopes.	191	14724	470506	hslm	ca703	1983	1:24000
Deven-Pass Canyon-Keating families complex, 35 to 60 percent slopes.	157	8224	470474	hskl	ca703	1983	1:24000
Hiibner-Deven-Keating families complec, 20 to 60 percent slopes.	180	6738	470495	hsl8	ca703	1983	1:24000
Deven-Pass Canyon-Keating families complex, 1 to 15 percent slopes.	155	6115	470472	hskj	ca703	1983	1:24000
Keating-Deven families association, 20 to 40 percent slopes.	192	2228	470507	hsln	ca703	1983	1:24000
Ridd-Ruckles-Keating families complex, 1 to 20 percent slopes.	238	1770	470552	hsn3	ca703	1983	1:24000
Klicker-Keating families-Durixerolls association, 0 to 35 percent slopes.	43	4084	471016	ht42	ca708	1984	1:24000
Keating-Waterbury complex, 1 to 5 percent slopes	6017	159	2519268	21677	id001	2012	1:24000
Clovercreek-Keating complex, 2 to 12 percent slopes	36C	12274	62203	22qk	or604	1988	1:24000
Ridley-Keating silt loams, 2 to 12 percent slopes	131C	8758	62100	22m7	or604	1988	1:24000
Clovercreek-Keating complex, 12 to 35 percent south slopes	37D	5222	62204	22ql	or604	1988	1:24000
Keating silt loam, 12 to 35 percent north slopes	85D	2558	62274	22sv	or604	1988	1:24000
Clovercreek-Keating complex, 2 to 12 percent slopes	73C	23	64024	24m9	or625	1979	1:20000
Clovercreek-Keating complex, 12 to 35 percent south slopes	74D	14	64025	24mb	or625	1979	1:20000
Clovercreek-Keating complex, 12 to 35 percent south slopes	4028BS	6	2437144	22ql	or631	2018	1:24000
Keating-Rockly-Gwinly complex, 8 to 25 percent slopes	8028	5212	2425930	2mfct	or645		1:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the KEATING 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).