Soil Data Explorer - LYNX

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

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

Pedons used in the lab summary:

MLRA	Lab ID	Pedon ID	Taxonname	CI	NSSL / NASIS Reports	Link To SoilWeb GMap
35	75C0032	S1975AZ005011	Lynx	4	Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties	35.6869659,-112.3721466

Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the LYNX 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 LYNX 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 LYNX 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 LYNX 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 mountains figure.

Competing Series

Soil series competing with LYNX 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 LYNX 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 LYNX 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 mountains figure.

Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with LYNX, 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 LYNX 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
Poley-Lynx association, gently sloping	32	15453	52665	1rsw	az631	1980	1:24000
Tusayan-Lynx association, gently sloping	55	10224	52690	1rtp	az631	1980	1:24000
Paymaster-Lynx association, gently sloping	29	9774	52661	1rsr	az631	1980	1:24000
Lynx-Yarts complex, 0 to 3 percent slopes	380	3307	3381257	2zmyn	az631	1980	1:24000
Aut-Lynx association, gently sloping	4	1577	52673	1rt4	az631	1980	1:24000
Lynx soils	Ly	105675	52883	1s0x	az637	1968	1:31680
Pastura-Lynx association, undulating	PmB	90409	52895	1s19	az637	1968	1:31680
Arp-Lynx association, rolling	AyC	3758	52819	1ryv	az637	1968	1:31680
Abra-Lynx association, rolling	AmC	3391	52806	1ryf	az637	1968	1:31680
Balon-Lynx association, rolling	BlC	3309	52820	1ryw	az637	1968	1:31680
Moano-Lynx association, rolling	MrC	2934	52886	1s10	az637	1968	1:31680
Lynx soils, wet variant	Lz	1967	52885	1s0z	az637	1968	1:31680
Lynx soils, eroded	Ly2	875	52884	1s0y	az637	1968	1:31680
Wineg-Lynx association	Wo	680	52946	1s2y	az637	1968	1:31680
Lynx silt loam	Ln	176	1545457	1nw5g	az641	1965	1:31680
Lynx silt loam, heavy subsoil variant	Ly	104	1545458	1nw5h	az641	1965	1:31680
Lynx fine sandy loam, 0 to 5 percent slopes	LyB	600	1527500	1n8h6	az643	1967	1:31680
Lynx loam, eroded	56B	7043	53976	1t55	az683	1974	1:24000
Lynx loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes	13	1826	1713035	1vhk6	az693		1:24000
Lynx silt loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes	106	685	349183	cqbz	wy011	1978	1:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the LYNX 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).