Soil Data Explorer - SAN BENITO

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the SAN BENITO soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of SAN BENITO, 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 SAN BENITO were used in the calculation. Source: KSSL snapshot (updated 2020-03-13). Methods used to assemble the KSSL snapshot used by SoilWeb / SDE

There are insufficient data to create the lab data summary figure.

Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the SAN BENITO 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.

Sibling Summary

Siblings are those soil series that occur together in map units, in this case with the SAN BENITO 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).

Select annual climate data summaries for the SAN BENITO 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).

Geomorphic description summaries for the SAN BENITO 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).

Competing Series

Soil series competing with SAN BENITO 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).

Select annual climate data summaries for the SAN BENITO 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).

Geomorphic description summaries for the SAN BENITO 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 3D flats position figure.

Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with SAN BENITO, 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).

Block Diagrams

No block diagrams are available.

Map Units

Map units containing SAN BENITO 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
San Benito-Alo complex, 50 to 75 percent slopes, MLRA 15	SdG	8050	455716	2wv85	ca053	1972	1:24000
San Benito-Diablo complex, 30 to 50 percent slopes, MLRA 15	SdF	4520	455715	2wv88	ca053	1972	1:24000
San Benito clay loam, 30 to 50 percent slopes, eroded, MLRA 15	SbF2	57335	456274	2wv7x	ca069	1965	1:20000
San Benito clay loam, 15 to 30 percent slopes, eroded, MLRA 15	SbE2	26125	456273	2wv82	ca069	1965	1:20000
San Benito clay loam, 30 to 50 percent slopes, severely eroded, MLRA 15	SbF3	9033	456275	2wp52	ca069	1965	1:20000
San Benito clay loam, 9 to 15 percent slopes, MLRA 15	SbD	4177	456272	2tz0y	ca069	1965	1:20000
San Benito clay loam, 15 to 30 percent slopes	227	1240	2562637	2q3fd	ca069	1965	1:20000
San Benito clay loam, 30 to 50 percent slopes, MLRA 15	228	315	2562631	2wv87	ca069	1965	1:20000
Altamont-San Ysidro-San Benito complex, 2 to 9 percent slopes	AlC	6346	456053	h9kd	ca095	1969	1:24000
Altamont-San Ysidro-San Benito complex, 9 to 30 percent slopes	AlE	4191	456054	h9kf	ca095	1969	1:24000
San Benito clay loam, 30 to 50 percent slopes, moderately deep, MLRA 15	SbF	685	457049	2wv89	ca646	1967	1:24000
San Benito clay loam, 30 to 50 percent slopes, severely eroded, MLRA 15	SbF3	502	457050	2wp52	ca646	1967	1:24000
San Benito clay loam, 50 to 75 percent slopes, MLRA 15	SbG	361	457051	2wv83	ca646	1967	1:24000
San Benito clay loam, 15 to 30 percent slopes, eroded, MLRA 15	SbE2	202	457048	2wv82	ca646	1967	1:24000
San Benito clay loam, 30 to 50 percent slopes, eroded, MLRA 15	SbF2sb	8	699689	2wv7x	ca646	1967	1:24000
San Benito clay loam, 9 to 15 percent slopes, MLRA 15	SbDsb	1	699688	2tz0y	ca646	1967	1:24000
Los Osos-San Benito clay loams, 30 to 45 percent slopes	LsF	10982	457427	hbzq	ca672	1966	1:20000
Los Osos-San Benito clay loams, 15 to 30 percent slopes	LsE	2905	457426	hbzp	ca672	1966	1:20000
Los Osos-San Benito clay loams, 30 to 75 percent slopes, severely eroded	LsG3	1596	457428	hbzr	ca672	1966	1:20000
San Benito-Diablo complex, 45 to 75 percent slopes	SgG	1143	457489	hc1q	ca672	1966	1:20000
San Benito-Diablo complex, 30 to 45 percent slopes	SgF	875	457488	hc1p	ca672	1966	1:20000
San Benito clay loam, 30 to 50 percent slopes, eroded, MLRA 20	ScF2	17543	457766	2wv7y	ca674	1968	1:24000
San Benito clay loam, 50 to 75 percent slopes, MLRA 20	ScG	7945	457767	2wv84	ca674	1968	1:24000
San Benito clay loam, 15 to 30 percent slopes, eroded, MLRA 20	ScE2	4692	457765	2wv80	ca674	1968	1:24000
San Benito clay loam, 9 to 15 percent slopes, eroded	ScD2	1642	457764	hcbl	ca674	1968	1:24000
Lunada-San Benito, warm complex, 30 to 75 percent slopes	1169	415	2911665	2w62j	ca696	2016	1:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the SAN BENITO 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).