Soil Data Explorer - WAX

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

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

There are insufficient data to create the lab data summary figure.

Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the WAX 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 WAX 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 WAX 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 WAX 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).

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Competing Series

Soil series competing with WAX 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 WAX 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 WAX 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.

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

Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with WAX, 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 WAX 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
Wax loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes	WaA	14400	331421	c3w0	al115	1983	1:24000
Wax silt loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes, rarely flooded	WaB	5893	884421	yp9q	ga015	2013	1:12000
Wax silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, occasionally flooded	WaA	5226	884420	yp9p	ga015	2013	1:12000
Wax loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, occasionally flooded	WaA	1650	531217	kts1	ga047	1987	1:20000
Wax loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes, rarely flooded	WaB	500	531218	kts2	ga047	1987	1:20000
Wax silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, occasionally flooded	WaA	4140	2023791	25xxl	ga129	2007	1:12000
Riverview and Wax soils, 0 to 3 percent slopes, occasionally flooded	RxA	1375	2023826	25xyq	ga129	2007	1:12000
Wax silt loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes, rarely flooded	WaB	1080	2023792	25xxm	ga129	2007	1:12000
Wax loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, frequently flooded	WaA	5674	531473	kv19	ga619	2012	1:24000
Wax loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes, rarely flooded	WaB	4769	531474	kv1b	ga619	2012	1:24000
Wax loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes	WaB	12830	531312	ktw3	ga621	1975	1:20000
Wax loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes	WaA	12045	531311	ktw2	ga621	1975	1:20000
Wax fine sandy loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes	WaB	3780	562773	lwlz	ga648	2001	1:12000
Wax fine sandy loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, occasionally flooded	WaA	2235	562771	lwlx	ga648	2001	1:12000
Wax-Rockdell complex, 0 to 3 percent slopes, occasionally flooded	Wa	2858	728821	sgdc	tn143	2003	1:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the WAX 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).