Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the ROMBERG soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of ROMBERG, 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 ROMBERG 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 ROMBERG 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 ROMBERG 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 ROMBERG 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 ROMBERG 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 ROMBERG 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 ROMBERG 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 ROMBERG 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 ROMBERG, 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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  1. CO-2010-09-28-01 | Ute Mountain Area - 2007

    Typical soils and their landscape positions in the Ute Mountain Area Soil Survey (Soil Survey of Ute Mountain Area, Colorado and New Mexico; 2007).

  2. CO-2012-05-09-11 | Ute Mountain Area - 2008

    Typical soils and their landscape positions in the Ute Mountain Area Soil Survey (Soil Survey of Ute Mountain Area, Colorado and New Mexico; 2008).

  3. CO-2012-05-09-12 | Ute Mountain Area - 2008

    Representative locations on the landscape for some of the general soil map units (Soil Survey of Ute Mountain Area, Colorado and New Mexico; 2008).

Map Units

Map units containing ROMBERG 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
Romberg, extremely stony-Crosscan, very bouldery-Rock outcrop complex, 25 to 80 percent slopes8968034594592w58xco67020051:24000
Romberg-Crosscan complex, 6 to 25 percent slopes, very stony8818800594582w591co67020051:24000
Romberg, extremely stony-Crosscan, very bouldery-Rock outcrop complex, 25 to 80 percent slopes11075075575562w58xco67119971:24000
Romberg-Crosscan complex, 6 to 25 percent slopes, very stony10946278575542w591co67119971:24000
Reef-Rock outcrop-Romberg complex, 15 to 45 percent slopes, rubbly15912524844152pd7fco67119971:24000
Reef-Romberg-Rock outcrop complex, 8 to 15 percent slopes, rubbly1621529274502wr8hco67119971:24000
Romberg very stony loam, rollingRN7802347128cn6pmt61119711:24000
Romberg extremely stony loam, slopingRO4369347129cn6qmt61119711:24000
Romberg-Shale outcrop complex, moderately steepRP1672347130cn6rmt61119711:24000
Romberg-Stutzman association, undulatingRS1443347131cn6smt61119711:24000
Romberg very cobbly sandy loam, 25 to 55 percent slopesRoG45429424562wl4jnm6781:24000
Romberg very gravelly sandy loam, 25 to 55 percent slopes145144515881351q9l5nm68720081:24000
Reef-Romberg family-Rock outcrop complex, 25 to 80 percent slopes, extremely bouldery1598024843942pd6rut63819851:24000
Hiland-like-Romberg-Cragola-like, stony complex, 4 to 25 percent slopes236232532822ztjtwy6291:24000
Romberg-Larim-like-Bowbac complex, 35 to 60 percent slopes557232532322zthpwy6291:24000
Hollywell-like-Claprych, extremely stony-Romberg, extremely stony complex, 25 to 60 percent slopes555932030832zbsgwy6291:24000
Bowbac-Shingle-Romberg complex, 35 to 60 percent slopes556832030502zbr9wy6291:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the ROMBERG 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 .