Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the LUZENA soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of LUZENA, 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 LUZENA 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 LUZENA 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 LUZENA 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 LUZENA 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 LUZENA 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 LUZENA 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 LUZENA 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 LUZENA 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 LUZENA, 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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Map Units

Map units containing LUZENA 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
Yellowhorse-Luzena family complex, 1 to 10 percent slopes9217575522641rcyaz62319941:24000
Faraway-Luzena complex, 20 to 40 percent slopesFlE36235528531rzyaz63719681:31680
Faraway-Luzena complex, 40-60 percent slopesFlF33111528541rzzaz63719681:31680
Luzena cobbly loam, 0 to 30 percent slopesLwD20890528811s0vaz63719681:31680
Luzena very rocky loam, 10 to 30 percent slopesLxD7549528821s0waz63719681:31680
Rock outcrop-Luzena complex, 20 to 90 percent slopes3432075544581tnqaz66319791:24000
Luzena very cobbly loam, very cobbly subsoil variant, 15 to 30 percent slopesLvE2017537221swzaz66519711:20000
Luzena gravelly clay loam, 5 to 15 percent slopesLuD733537211swyaz66519711:20000
Fanno-Luzena association, rollingFaD845514251711jv08az66719711:20000
Luzena gravelly loam, deep variant, 5 to 20 percent slopesLuD485014261151jvzqaz66719711:20000
Luzena-Thunderbird complex, 3 to 20 percent slopes7838538798411vst6az69720051:24000
Luzena-Thunderbird complex, 3 to 20 percent slopes2016880545031tq5az69919931:24000
Kellypoint-Luzena complex, 2 to 15 percent slopes5541888615942nny3az70120011:24000
Yellowhorse-Luzena-Sponiker association, 2 to 15 percent slopes1697386616061np1yaz70120011:24000
Luzena-Kellypoint complex, 2 to 35 percent slopes762601615965nnyvaz70120011:24000
Luzena-Rock outcrop association, very steep53185772565361wtrnm66019811:48000
Rock outcrop-Luzena association, extremely steep7369724565181wt5nm66019811:48000
Lehmans-Luzena association, very steep5011091565331wtnnm66019811:48000
Luzena-Rock outcrop association, 10 to 35 percent slopes31156565592991zpwnm66219791:48000
Rock outcrop-Luzena association, 25 to 60 percent slopes5369171593231zqnnm66219791:48000
Luzena very gravelly sandy clay loam, 5 to 25 percent slopes3011302592981zpvnm66219791:48000
Abrazo-Luzena complex, 3 to 15 percent slopes110573592751zp3nm66219791:48000
Abrazo-Luzena complex, 15 to 45 percent slopes23490592861zpgnm66219791:48000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the LUZENA 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 .