Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the NINEVEH soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of NINEVEH, 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 NINEVEH 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
111BRA79251979IN135025Nineveh3Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties40.2871194,-85.0748583
n/aPB-0581960-OH135-058Nineveh2Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Propertiesn/a
n/aPB-0641961-OH135-064Nineveh2Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Propertiesn/a
n/aPB-0681961-OH135-068Nineveh2Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Propertiesn/a

Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the NINEVEH 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 NINEVEH 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 NINEVEH 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 NINEVEH 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 NINEVEH 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 NINEVEH 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 NINEVEH 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 NINEVEH, 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 NINEVEH 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
Nineveh sandy loam, 0 to 2 percent slopesNpeA37872073096yqdin00520021:12000
Urban land-Nineveh complex, 0 to 2 percent slopesUkqA26352073286yr0in00520021:12000
Nineveh gravelly sandy loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, rarely floodedNpcAQ12912073106yqfin00520021:12000
Nineveh gravelly sandy loam, 0 to 2 percent slopesNpcA11122073116yqgin00520021:12000
Nineveh sandy loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes, erodedNpeB210492073086yqcin00520021:12000
Urban land-Nineveh complex, 2 to 6 percent slopesUkqB1382073296yr1in00520021:12000
Nineveh sandy loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, rarely floodedNpeAQ1002073076yqbin00520021:12000
Nineveh loamNn30516128991r4c0in04119581:15840
Nineveh loam, 0 to 2 percent slopesNnA30431866365db8in05719761:15840
Nineveh sandy loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, occasionally flooded, very brief durationNpeAK15071907089220h0in07119851:15840
Nineveh loam, 0 to 2 percent slopesNnA6671616785f7fin08119751:15840
Nineveh loam, 0 to 2 percent slopesNnA1132913495db8in09519651:15840
Nineveh loam, 0 to 2 percent slopesNnA71931607405d85in14519681:15840
Nineveh loam, 2 to 6 percent slopesNnB15381607415d86in14519681:15840
Nineveh loamNn116130481r4htin16119581:15840
Nineveh silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopesNnA12414138131jg5woh02119661:15840
Nineveh silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopesNnA2551711505r2zoh09119771:15840
Nineveh silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopesNnA5181709275qvsoh14119971:15840
Nineveh silt loam, 2 to 6 percent slopesNnB1781709285qvtoh14119971:15840

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the NINEVEH 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 .