Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the SARITA soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of SARITA, 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 SARITA 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
83A40A467676TX013002SARITA6Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties28.813055,-98.355278
83E99P0129P98TX-131-84ACSarita7Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties27.2669449,-98.3691635
83E40A4681S1976TX215002SARITA5Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties26.6441669,-98.0905533
83ES87TX261003S87TX261003Sarita5Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties26.9897499,-97.7735825
n/aS88TX261001S88TX261001Sarita5Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Propertiesn/a

Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the SARITA 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 SARITA 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 SARITA 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 SARITA 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 hills figure.

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

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Competing Series

Soil series competing with SARITA 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 SARITA series and competing. Series are sorted according to hierarchical clustering of median values. Source: SSURGO map unit geometry and 1981-2010, 800m PRISM data .

There are insufficient data to create the annual climate figure.

Geomorphic description summaries for the SARITA 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 .

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 SARITA, 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. TX-2010-11-02-50 | Duval County -

    Delmita-Delfina-Nueces (Soil Survey of Duval County, Texas).

  2. TX-2010-11-05-07 | Zapata County -

    Typical pattern of soils in the Comitas-Falfurrias-Nueces-Sarita general soil map unit (Soil Survey of Zapata County, Texas).

  3. TX-2012-03-20-06 | Brooks County - October 1993

    Typical pattern of soils and parent material in the Nueces-Sarita general soil map unit (Soil Survey of Brooks County, TX; 1993).

  4. TX-2012-03-20-07 | Brooks County - October 1993

    Typical pattern of soils and parent material in the Falfurrias general soil map unit (Soil Survey of Brooks County, TX; 1993).

  5. TX-2012-03-20-09 | Brooks County - October 1993

    Typical pattern of soils and parent material in the Sarita-Sauz general soil map unit (Soil Survey of Brooks County, TX; 1993).

  6. TX-2012-03-21-13 | Jim Hogg County - November 1974

    Relation of soils and underlyinig material in the Delmita association (Soil Survey of Jim Hogg County, TX; 1974).

  7. TX-2012-03-21-14 | Jim Hogg County - November 1974

    Relation of soils and underlyinig material in the Nueces-Sarita association (Soil Survey of Jim Hogg County, TX; 1974).

  8. TX-2012-03-21-61 | Refugio County - 1988

    Typical pattern of soils and underlying material in the Aransas-Sinton-Odem map unit (Soil Survey of Refugio County, TX; 1988).

Map Units

Map units containing SARITA 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
Sarita fine sand, 0 to 5 percent slopesSAB1298893633262t11rtx04719871:31680
Nueces-Sarita association, 0 to 3 percent slopesNSB212433633202sxvqtx04719871:31680
Sarita-Sauz association, gently undulatingSSB11819363327d627tx04719871:31680
Sarita fine sand, 0 to 5 percent slopesSnC144824032942t11rtx13120081:24000
Nueces-Sarita complex, 0 to 3 percent slopes43540063676822sxvgtx21519791:20000
Sarita fine sand, 0 to 5 percent slopes66152633677072t11rtx21519791:20000
Nueces-Sarita association, 0 to 3 percent slopesNs2315363680822sxvqtx24719701:31680
Sarita loamy fine sand, 0 to 5 percent slopes51364368136dc2ctx24919761:24000
Sarita-Falfurrias fine sands, 0 to 5 percent slopesSfC5021371498dgkttx39119841:24000
Sarita fine sand, 0 to 5 percent slopesSa259043721412t11rtx42719661:24000
Sarita fine sand, 0 to 5 percent slopesSaB45143734962t11rtx48919801:24000
Nueces-Sarita complex, 0 to 3 percent slopesNSC1755224416422sxvgtx50520091:24000
Sarita fine sand, 0 to 5 percent slopesSnC6916015985822t11rtx61320071:24000
Sarita-Cayo complex, 0 to 5 percent slopesSrC3883614436951kg8ttx61320071:24000
Sarita-Topo complex, 0 to 5 percent slopes, frequently pondedSsC2351314436941kg8stx61320071:24000
Nueces-Sarita association, 0 to 3 percent slopesNsC52023906122sxvqtx61320071:24000
Sarita-Nueces complexSa482374758dkyztx62019741:20000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the SARITA 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 .