Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the OTELA soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of OTELA, 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 OTELA 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
133AS65_0141986-FL129-S65_014Otela3Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties30.2439556,-84.219841
133AS65_0111996-FL129-S65_011Otela3Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties30.2331219,-84.3288956
138S38_0051985-FL075-S38_005Otela3Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties29.5049076,-82.8330994
138S21_0071986-FL041-S21_007Otela3Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties29.733614,-82.9085617
152AS65_0091985-FL129-S65_009Otela3Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties30.2526493,-84.3610611
152AS62_0161990-FL123-S62_016Otela3Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties30.1458302,-83.5627823
153AS45_0321986-FL089-S45_032Otela3Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties30.6882744,-82.0368729
153AS02_0091988-FL003-S02_009Otela3Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties30.3411579,-82.1223755

Water Balance

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

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Competing Series

Soil series competing with OTELA 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 OTELA 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 OTELA 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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There are insufficient data to create the 3D mountains figure.

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

Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with OTELA, 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

No block diagrams are available.

Map Units

Map units containing OTELA 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
Otela limestone substratum-Chiefland-Kureb complex, 0 to 5 percent slopes91661614211411jpt8fl02919981:24000
Penney-Otela, limestone substratum complex, 0 to 5 percent slopes41108914211121jpsbfl02919981:24000
Otela-Penney fine sands, 0 to 5 percent slopes425780321817bsw6fl04119891:20000
Shadeville-Otela fine sands, 0 to 5 percent slopes298310321810bsvzfl04119891:20000
Otela-Alpin complex, 0 to 5 percent slopes491010114884617kgkfl04719951:24000
Otela-Penney complex, 0 to 5 percent slopes535900886556yrjlfl06719931:24000
Otela, limestone substratum-Shadeville-Penney complex 0 to 5 percent slopes481030886605yrl5fl06719931:24000
Otela-Candler complex, 1 to 5 percent slopes123800014140562y51jfl07519901:24000
Jonesville-Otela-Seaboard complex, 1 to 5 percent slopes312825014140741jgg9fl07519901:24000
Otela-Tavares complex, 1 to 5 percent slopes322622014140751jggbfl07519901:24000
Shadeville-Otela complex, 1 to 5 percent slopes141943014140581jgfsfl07519901:24000
Otela-Alpin-Chiefland complex, 0 to 5 percent slopes7116068102338513bxffl12120031:24000
Otela-Chiefland-Ichetucknee complex, 0 to 5 percent slopes184961102333213bvqfl12120031:24000
Otela-Ortega-Lutterloh complex, 0 to 5 percent slopes19565014252131jv1mfl12319981:24000
Otela-Alpin fine sands, 0 to 5 percent slopes471377013990731hyvdfl12919881:24000
Otela fine sand, 0 to 5 percent slopes7759013990831hyvqfl12919881:24000
Otela, limestone substratum-Ortega sands, 0 to 5 percent slopes48718013990741hyvffl12919881:24000
Otela sand, 5 to 8 percent slopes837013990841hyvrfl12919881:24000
Shadeville-Otela complex, 1 to 5 percent slopes80179717150551vkncfl60819791:15840
Otela-Tavares complex, 1 to 5 percent slopes8224917150571vknffl60819791:15840

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the OTELA 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 .