Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the TANKERVILLE soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of TANKERVILLE, 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 TANKERVILLE 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
14800P1119S2000VA047025Tankerville3Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties38.362964,-77.967072
14800P1069S2000VA107012Tankerville3Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties39.227506,-77.47155
14800P1085S2000VA107024Tankerville3Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties39.020647,-77.816489
14800P1081S2000VA107025Tankerville3Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties39.081433,-77.731286

Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the TANKERVILLE 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 TANKERVILLE 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 TANKERVILLE 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 TANKERVILLE 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 terrace figure.

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

Competing Series

Soil series competing with TANKERVILLE 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 TANKERVILLE 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 TANKERVILLE 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 flats position figure.

Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with TANKERVILLE, 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. VA-2010-11-05-23 | Fauquier County -

    Relationship of soils and landscape in the Blue Ridge Granite Gneiss (Soil Survey of Fauquier County, Virginia).

Map Units

Map units containing TANKERVILLE 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
Tankerville-Purcellville complex, 15 to 25 percent slopes, rocky20D18957189526521m5lva06120061:12000
Purcellville-Tankerville complex, 7 to 15 percent slopes31C13386189529021m6dva06120061:12000
Tankerville-Purcellville complex, 7 to 15 percent slopes, rocky20C10668189526421m5kva06120061:12000
Tankerville loam, 15 to 25 percent slopes, very rocky18D4927189526021m5fva06120061:12000
Tankerville loam, 25 to 45 percent slopes, rocky20E2002189526621m5mva06120061:12000
Tankerville loam, 25 to 45 percent slopes, very rocky18E1731189526121m5gva06120061:12000
Purcellville-Tankerville complex, 2 to 7 percent slopes31B1470189528921m6cva06120061:12000
Tankerville-Purcellville complex, 7 to 15 percent slopes, very rocky18C1067189525921m5dva06120061:12000
Tankerville-Rock outcrop complex, 25 to 45 percent slopes19E747189526321m5jva06120061:12000
Tankerville-Rock outcrop complex, 15 to 25 percent slopes19D346189526221m5hva06120061:12000
Purcellville and Tankerville soils, 7 to 15 percent slopes20C21144642025pk2hva10720061:12000
Purcellville and Tankerville soils, 15 to 25 percent slopes20D9777642026pk2jva10720061:12000
Philomont and Tankerville soils, 2 to 7 percent slopes31B4320642043pk32va10720061:12000
Tankerville and Philomont soils, 7 to 15 percent slopes30C4208642040pk2zva10720061:12000
Tankerville and Purcellville soils, 25 to 45 percent slopes20E3285642027pk2kva10720061:12000
Tankerville and Philomont soils, 15 to 25 percent slopes30D1320642041pk30va10720061:12000
Purcellville and Tankerville soils, 2 to 7 percent slopes20B821642024pk2gva10720061:12000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the TANKERVILLE 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 .