Soil Data Explorer - TELLURA

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the TELLURA soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of TELLURA, 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 TELLURA were used in the calculation. Source: KSSL snapshot (updated 2020-03-18). Methods used to assemble the KSSL snapshot used by SoilWeb / SDE

Pedons used in the lab summary:

MLRA	Lab ID	Pedon ID	Taxonname	CI	NSSL / NASIS Reports	Link To SoilWeb GMap
48A	84P0728	84CO105003	Tellura	7	Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties	37.4583321,-106.3083344
48A	86P0860	86CO113001	Tellura	7	Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties	37.9247208,-108.2249985
48A	91P1039	91CO037001	Tellura	7	Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties	39.7652779,-106.6169434

Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the TELLURA 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 TELLURA series. Sketches are arranged according to their subgroup-level taxonomic structure. Source: SSURGO snapshot (updated 2024-02-21), parsed OSD records (updated 2023-10-06) and snapshot of SC database (updated 2023-10-02).

Select annual climate data summaries for the TELLURA 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 TELLURA 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 TELLURA share the same family level classification in Soil Taxonomy. Source: parsed OSD records (updated 2023-10-06) and snapshot of the SC database (updated 2023-10-02).

Select annual climate data summaries for the TELLURA 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 TELLURA 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 TELLURA, 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 TELLURA 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
Bushvalley-Tellura complex, 9 to 65 percent slopes	11	16985	498441	jqnr	co633	1981	1:24000
Tellura gravelly clay loam, 4 to 25 percent slopes	114	4324	498258	jqgv	co637	1986	1:24000
Tellura-Seitz complex, 10 to 30 percent slopes	105	2392	507381	k0z4	co638	2010	1:24000
Tellura gravelly loam, 25 to 50 percent slopes	104	1247	507382	k0z5	co638	2010	1:24000
Tellura gravelly clay loam, 4 to 25 percent slopes	103	13	2497262	jqgv	co638	2010	1:24000
Seitz family-Tellura family, moist-Cryaquolls complex, 0 to 40 percent slopes	382B	24004	1415005	1jhfb	co654		1:24000
Seitz family-Tellura family, moist complex, 40 to 60 percent slopes	386C	2143	1415011	1jhfj	co654		1:24000
Tellura-Jerry complex, 5 to 40 percent slopes	191	29140	509561	k37g	co660	1994	1:24000
Nutras-Tellura complex, 5 to 40 percent slopes	172	13814	509534	k36l	co660	1994	1:24000
Tellura, moist-Quander complex, 5 to 25 percent slopes	142	29714	505048	jyjw	co663	2000	1:24000
Tellura very gravelly clay loam, dry, 15 to 65 percent slopes, very bouldery	141	10194	505047	jyjv	co663	2000	1:24000
Tellura, moist-Seitz association, 15 to 60 percent slopes	170	55845	2453830	2ncdt	co664	1987	1:24000
Tellura-Gothic association, 2 to 45 percent slopes	169	33894	2453828	2ncdr	co664	1987	1:24000
Embargo-Tellura association, 12 to 50 percent slopes	134	32466	2453815	2ncdb	co664	1987	1:24000
Embargo-Tellura association, moist, 5 to 45 percent slopes	135	21080	2453816	2ncdc	co664	1987	1:24000
Seitz, cool-Embargo, cool-Tellura association, 15 to 60 percent slopes	167	20140	2453826	2ncdp	co664	1987	1:24000
Winnemucca-Tellura association, 10 to 35 percent slopes	173	1577	2453703	2nc8q	co664	1987	1:24000
Tellura, moist-Gothic complex, 5 to 40 percent slopes	163	8234	505221	jyqg	co674	1998	1:24000
Tellura loam, moist, 5 to 25 percent slopes	162	1669	505220	jyqf	co674	1998	1:24000
Tellura-Leaps clay loams, 5 to 40 percent slopes	164	331	505222	jyqh	co674	1998	1:24000
Tellura-Leaps clay loams, 5 to 40 percent slopes	101	10352	501960	jvb8	co675	1986	1:24000
Leaps-Tellura complex, 5 to 20 percent slopes	54	4413	502076	jvg0	co675	1986	1:24000
Tellura-Gothic association, 2 to 45 percent slopes	ToE	31	2770163	2tl93	nm672		1:24000
Tellura-Faim-Behanin families, association, 5 to 45 percent slopes	206		581654	mj81	ut649		1:24000
Faim-Tellura families, association, 2 to 30 percent slopes	153		625233	nzlt	ut649		1:24000
Tellura-Tellura, moderately deep families, complex, 5 to 60 percent slopes	208		625274	nzn4	ut649		1:24000
Tellura-Sessions families, association, 5 to 45 percent slopes	207		625275	nzn5	ut649		1:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the TELLURA 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).