Soil Data Explorer - PITS, GRAVEL

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the PITS, GRAVEL soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of PITS, GRAVEL, 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 PITS, GRAVEL were used in the calculation. Source: KSSL snapshot (updated 2020-03-13). 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 PITS, GRAVEL 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 PITS, GRAVEL series. Sketches are arranged according to their subgroup-level taxonomic structure. Source: SSURGO snapshot (updated 2024-02-21), parsed OSD records (updated 2023-10-02) and snapshot of SC database (updated 2023-10-02).

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Select annual climate data summaries for the PITS, GRAVEL 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).

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Geomorphic description summaries for the PITS, GRAVEL 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).

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Competing Series

Soil series competing with PITS, GRAVEL share the same family level classification in Soil Taxonomy. Source: parsed OSD records (updated 2023-10-02) and snapshot of the SC database (updated 2023-10-02).

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Select annual climate data summaries for the PITS, GRAVEL 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).

There are insufficient data to create the annual climate figure.

Geomorphic description summaries for the PITS, GRAVEL 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 2D hillslope position figure.

There are insufficient data to create the 3D hills figure.

There are insufficient data to create the 3D mountains figure.

There are insufficient data to create the 3D terrace figure.

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

Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with PITS, GRAVEL, 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).

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Block Diagrams

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Map Units

Map units containing PITS, GRAVEL 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
Pits, gravel	126	78	51762	1qvr	ak642	1990	1:24000
Pits, gravel	23	150	53271	1sff	az649	1978	1:24000
Pits, gravel	67	218	96822	37r9	co063	1996	1:24000
Pits, Gravel	GP	287	801579	vx3d	co087	1965	1:24000
Pits, gravel	GP	185	886508	yrh1	co622	1968	1:20000
Pits, gravel	70	92	95434	369j	co625	1975	1:24000
Pits, gravel	GP	183	815470	wckh	co632	1968	1:24000
Pits, gravel	494	50	737664	srlm	co672	2003	1:24000
Pits, gravel	Pg	5	125572	46nq	ga628	1977	1:20000
Pits, gravel	Pr	142	162350	5fy3	in023	1978	1:20000
Pits, gravel	Pg	59	1710203	1vdlv	in027	1969	1:20000
Pits, gravel	Pmg	411	164943	5jmr	in035	1997	1:12000
Gravel pits	Gv	95	1612867	1r49z	in041	1958	1:15840
Pits, gravel	Pg	836	242546	84d2	in045	1999	1:12000
Pits, gravel	Pg	215	162296	5fwc	in047	1984	1:15840
Pits, gravel	Gp	226	160825	5dbx	in059	1974	1:15840
Pits, gravel	Pmg	240	1650892	1sdwl	in063	1971	1:15840
Gravel pits	Gp	290	161452	5f04	in067	1967	1:20000
Pits, gravel	Pmg	372	161684	5f7m	in081	1975	1:15840
Gravel pits	Gr	1270	162088	5fnn	in095	1965	1:15840
Pits, gravel	Pg	504	164437	5j3f	in097	1975	1:15840
Gravel pits	Gr	503	159760	5c7k	in121	1965	1:20000
Gravel pits	Gp	505	160721	5d7k	in145	1968	1:15840
Pits, gravel	Pg	364	1532040	1nf6n	in153	1966	1:15840
Gravel pits	Gv	55	1613016	1r4gs	in161	1958	1:15840
Gravel pits	Gp	1283	159671	5c4p	in167	1971	1:20000
Pits, gravel	600	995	278961	9c8r	ma011	2012	1:12000
Pits, gravel	600	2216	278673	9bzg	ma614	1993	1:25000
Pits, gravel	600	2833	278138	9bf6	ma615	1992	1:25000
Pits, gravel	PT	293	2427588	2mh39	md005	2010	1:12000
Pits, gravel	Pt	29	2516891	218f8	md009	1967	1:20000
Pits, gravel	PT	637	1608675	1qzyr	md017	2007	1:12000
Pits, gravel	200	326	533593	kx7p	md031	1989	1:15840
Pits, gravel	PT	1097	1884932	218f8	md033	2009	1:12000
Pits, gravel	Gp	732	128315	49j6	md037	1975	1:20000
Sand and gravel pits	Sa	1052	533447	kx2z	md600	1972	1:15840
Pits, gravel	102	564	154547	55td	mt616	2003	1:24000
Pits, gravel	500	515	147833	4ytt	mt630	1991	1:24000
Pits, gravel	102	429	145526	4wfd	mt644	1995	1:24000
Pits, gravel	298	464	1612256	1r3p8	nh603		1:24000
Pits, gravel	GP	605	635646	pbfq	nm646	1976	1:24000
Pits, gravel	Pm	582	288777	9phd	ny001	1985	1:15840
Pits, gravel	PG	885	300051	b272	ny003	2013	1:24000
Pits, gravel	PG	1596	289770	9qjf	ny009	2002	1:24000
Pits, gravel	Pt	332	1401607	1j1h4	ny015	1969	1:20000
Pits, gravel	Pn	1288	290216	9qzt	ny019	1995	1:24000
Pits, gravel	Pg	479	290544	9rbd	ny025	1999	1:24000
Pits, gravel	Ps	1789	290705	9rhl	ny027	1992	1:24000
Pits, Gravel, and Sand	Pt	457	294275	9w6r	ny077	1993	1:24000
Pits, gravel	Pt	125	293093	9tzm	ny079	1987	1:12000
Gravel pits	GP	586	294805	9wrv	ny101	1972	1:15840
Pits, gravel	PG	424	1538991	1nnfw	ny107	1947	1:31680
Pits, gravel	Pt	475	309727	bd96	ny119	1987	1:12000
Pits, gravel	Pt	416	1405104	1j53y	ny121	1969	1:20000
Pits, gravel	Pu	231	289311	9q1m	ny605	1981	1:24000
Pits, gravel	Pp	72	171843	5rtb	oh003	1998	1:12000
Pits, gravel	Pg	1027	298911	b119	oh007	2001	1:12000
Pits, gravel	Pg	480	171444	5rdg	oh021	1966	1:15840
Pits, gravel	Pg	530	171765	5rqt	oh023	1997	1:15840
Pits, gravel	Pg	100	172004	5rzj	oh027	1999	1:12000
Pits, gravel	Pg	214	287261	9mxh	oh035	1978	1:15840
Pits, gravel	Pg	894	195779	6kqg	oh057	1974	1:15840
Pits, gravel	Ps	152	168962	5ntd	oh065	1987	1:15840
Pits, gravel	Pg	110	1420417	1jp1x	oh071	1973	1:15840
Pits, gravel	Pg	205	171158	5r37	oh091	1977	1:15840
Pits, gravel	Pg	91	816774	wdxk	oh099	1966	1:15840
Pits, gravel	Pg	314	624803	nz4y	oh135	2005	1:12000
Pits, gravel	Pg	422	170759	5qpc	oh139	1971	1:15840
Pits, gravel	Pg	1054	288008	9npl	oh151	1967	1:15840
Pits, gravel	Pg	1158	825358	wpvg	oh153	1969	1:20000
Pits, gravel	Pg	259	1423458	1js70	oh167	1973	1:15840
Pits, gravel	Ps	216	169655	5pjr	oh175	1980	1:15840
Pits, gravel	Pt	640	327977	c08x	tn109	1994	1:20000
Pits, gravel	161	512	508204	k1tp	ut613	1999	1:24000
Pits, gravel	GP	240	849088	xhjy	ut627	1971	1:24000
Pits, gravel	105	160	1014827	1320c	ut633	1983	1:24000
Pits, gravel, 0 to 3 percent slopes	14	412	121038	41yg	va033	1996	1:24000
Pits, gravel	11A	209	118520	3zb7	va097	1995	1:24000
Pits, sand and Pits, gravel	100	633	282807	9h8t	vt005	2006	1:20000
Pits, sand and Pits, gravel	100	235	1401165	1j10w	vt009	2012	1:
Pits, sand and Pits, gravel	25	732	283433	9hy0	vt019	2005	1:20000
Pits, gravel	230	13	503114	jwjh	wy713	1986	1:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the PITS, GRAVEL 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).