Soil Data Explorer - TENCEE

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the TENCEE soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of TENCEE, 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 TENCEE were used in the calculation. Source: KSSL snapshot (updated 2020-03-13). 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
42	40A0757	S1962NM013001	Tencee	3	Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties	32.3992958,-106.8736267
42	91P0499	S1991TX043215	Tencee	6	Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties	29.333889,-103.6113892
n/a	40A5531	S1966NM013002	Tencee	2	Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties	n/a
n/a	40A0812	S1969NM013004	TENCEE	4	Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties	n/a
n/a	40A0815	S1970NM013003	Tencee	4	Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties	n/a

Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the TENCEE 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 TENCEE 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 TENCEE 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 TENCEE 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 TENCEE 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 TENCEE 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 TENCEE 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 mountains figure.

Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with TENCEE, 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

Click a link below to display the diagram. Note that these diagrams may be from multiple survey areas.

1. NM-2012-02-14-14 | Otero Area, Parts of Otero, Eddy, and Chaves Counties - June 1981

   Pattern of soils and landscape in Lozier-Rock outcrop and Reakor-Tome-Tencee map units (Soil Survey of Otero Area, New Mexico, Parts of Otero, Eddy, and Chaves Counties; June 1981).

Map Units

Map units containing TENCEE 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
Nickel-Tencee association, strongly sloping	NTD	38680	635678	pbgr	nm646	1976	1:24000
Tencee very gravelly silt loam, 0 to 10 percent slopes	TAC	33410	635710	pbhs	nm646	1976	1:24000
Delnorte-Cave-Tencee complex, moderately rolling	30	156150	56507	1wst	nm660	1981	1:48000
Nickel-Tencee-Delnorte complex, moderately sloping	64	48904	56548	1wv4	nm660	1981	1:48000
Lozier-Tencee complex	Lt	86923	55972	1w7k	nm666	1974	1:24000
Tencee-Upton complex	Tg	73443	56002	1w8j	nm666	1974	1:24000
Tencee-Sotim association	TS	49563	55999	1w8f	nm666	1974	1:24000
Tencee gravelly sandy loam	Te	47168	56000	1w8g	nm666	1974	1:24000
Reakor-Tencee association	RI	19305	55990	1w84	nm666	1974	1:24000
Tencee cobbly loam, 5 to 30 percent slopes	TfD	12588	56001	1w8h	nm666	1974	1:24000
Tencee-Upton association	TE	79275	634592	p9bq	nm690		1:24000
Tencee very gravelly fine sandy loam, 2 to 8 percent slopes	400	7616	469310	hrc1	nv788	1982	1:24000
Tencee association, undulating	TEC	45705	58600	1yzb	tx606	1974	1:31680
Tencee-Rock outcrop association, hilly	TNG	7123	58601	1yzc	tx606	1974	1:31680
Tencee-Mentone complex, gently undulating	TMB	55096	58618	1yzx	tx615	1994	1:31680
Tencee and Upton soils, 1 to 8 percent slopes	TEC	63027	374722	dkxt	tx618	1989	1:31680

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the TENCEE 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).