Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the PHOEBE soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of PHOEBE, 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 PHOEBE 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 PHOEBE 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 PHOEBE 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 PHOEBE 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 PHOEBE 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 PHOEBE 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 PHOEBE 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 PHOEBE 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 PHOEBE, 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 PHOEBE 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
Phoebe-Battleplain, moist, complex, 0 to 8 percent slopes3024882662878nv4fid60619761:24000
Phoebe fine sandy loam, 0 to 3 percent slopesPhA969506610k058ut60919741:24000
Phoebe sandy loam, 0 to 15 percent slopes5433106865229flwa04319781:24000
Phoebe, dry-Battleplain complex, 0 to 8 percent slopes30264126512682kkywwa04319781:24000
Phoebe, dry-Battleplain complex, 0 to 8 percent slopes3026954123707522kkywwa06320121:24000
Phoebe ashy sandy loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes31303585859782wghwa06320121:24000
Battleplain-Phoebe, dry, complex, 8 to 15 percent slopes3135146623707572kkz1wa06320121:24000
Battleplain, moist-Phoebe complex, 8 to 15 percent slopes31321452621124nvb8wa06320121:24000
Phoebe ashy sandy loam, dry, 0 to 3 percent slopes3133129723707552kkyzwa06320121:24000
Phoebe ashy sandy loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes31311228859772wggwa06320121:24000
Urban land-Phoebe, disturbed complex, 3 to 8 percent slopes7181110524252582mdp4wa06320121:24000
Phoebe-Battleplain, moist, complex, 0 to 8 percent slopes30241006620943nv4fwa06320121:24000
Urban land-Phoebe, disturbed complex, 0 to 3 percent slopes718068624252592mdp5wa06320121:24000
Phoebe ashy sandy loam, dry, 3 to 8 percent slopes313427523707562kkz0wa06320121:24000
Urban land-Phoebe, disturbed complex, 8 to 15 percent slopes718225624252572mdp3wa06320121:24000
Phoebe sandy loam, 5 to 15 percent slopes175123515814059k9wa06519781:24000
Phoebe sandy loam, 0 to 5 percent slopes174113715813959k8wa06519781:24000
Phoebe fine sandy loam, 0 to 5 percent slopes3432884704822cbmwa64819871:24000
Phoebe fine sandy loam, 10 to 25 percent slopes345997704842cbpwa64819871:24000
Phoebe fine sandy loam, 5 to 10 percent slopes344699704832cbnwa64819871:24000
Dehart-Phoebe, dry complex, 30 to 65 percent slopes114428702282c2fwa64819871:24000
Phoebe fine sandy loam, dry, 0 to 5 percent slopes347403704862cbrwa64819871:24000
Phoebe fine sandy loam, dry, 10 to 25 percent slopes349385704882cbtwa64819871:24000
Phoebe fine sandy loam, dry, 5 to 10 percent slopes348373704872cbswa64819871:24000
Phoebe, dry-Dehart complex, 8 to 30 percent slopes350367704902cbwwa64819871:24000
Phoebe fine sandy loam, 40 to 65 percent slopes346200704852cbqwa64819871:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the PHOEBE 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 .