Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the TAGGART soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of TAGGART, 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 TAGGART 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
114AMR75011975IN109001Taggart2Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties39.4015222,-86.3574306
12600P1156S1999OH105001BTaggart6Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties39.0853348,-81.7977219
n/aPK-0101981-OH131-010Taggart5Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Propertiesn/a

Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the TAGGART 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 TAGGART 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 TAGGART 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 TAGGART 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 TAGGART 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 TAGGART 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 TAGGART 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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There are insufficient data to create the 3D mountains figure.

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Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with TAGGART, 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

No block diagrams are available.

Map Units

Map units containing TAGGART 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
Taggart silt loamTa3341632565gwbin10919791:15840
Taggart silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopesTadA631663145l1zin11919971:12000
Taggart silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopesTaA1371720215s02oh02719991:12000
Taggart silt loam, 0 to 3 percent slopesTgA1573536844l0mkoh05319881:15840
Taggart silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopesTfA214603201l0l3oh05319881:15840
Taggart silt loam, 0 to 4 percent slopesTcA1014206931jpbtoh07119731:15840
Taggart silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopesTbA314205631jp6moh07119731:15840
Taggart silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopesTaA1406537198l0zzoh10519911:15840
Taggart silt loam, 0 to 4 percent slopesTgA1717537735l1k9oh13119841:15840
Taggart silt loam, rarely floodedTh826537736l1kboh13119841:15840
Taggart silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopesTbA32516890191tpkhoh13119841:15840
Taggart silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopesTbA16251709675qx2oh14119971:15840
Taggart silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopesTaA313536546l09yoh16719731:15840
Taggart silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopesTgB13816027561qsstwv05120071:12000
Taggart silt loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes, rarely floodedTrA7117206301vrg6wv05120071:12000
Taggart silt loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes, rarely floodedTfA38813842181hgd6wv60020051:24000
Taggart silt loam, 0 to 3 percent slopesTaA25713841641hgbgwv60020051:24000
Taggart silt loamTa141514711k8llwv61219841:20000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the TAGGART 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 .