Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

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

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Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the ZIGGY 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 ZIGGY 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 ZIGGY 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 ZIGGY 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 ZIGGY 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 ZIGGY 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 ZIGGY 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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Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with ZIGGY, 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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Map Units

Map units containing ZIGGY 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
Ziggy-Nihill complex, 6 to 20 percent slopesP560D150027331642s037sd04719801:24000
Ziggy-Fairburn complex, 2 to 15 percent slopesP558D1927681102s036sd04719801:24000
Recluse-Ziggy loams, moist, 6 to 15 percent slopesP370D108827332642rwf8sd08120071:24000
Ziggy loam, moist, 6 to 20 percent slopesP556D22927333032s035sd08120071:24000
Nihill-Ziggy complex, 15 to 50 percent slopesP270F332727456712rvfdsd60720111:24000
Ziggy-Fairburn complex, 2 to 15 percent slopesP558D329427457022s036sd60720111:24000
Ziggy, cool-Colhill complex, 6 to 15 percent slopesQ0680D157725865902mlhrsd60720111:24000
Ziggy-Nihill complex, 6 to 20 percent slopesP560D142627457032s037sd60720111:24000
Ziggy-Nihill complex, moist, 6 to 15 percent slopesP562D125027457042s038sd60720111:24000
Nihill-Ziggy complex, moist, 15 to 50 percent slopesP271F57227456722s03gsd60720111:24000
Colhill-Ziggy, cool complex, 15 to 50 percent slopesQ0613F55225864672mhsksd60720111:24000
Iwait-Ucross-Ziggy loams, 2 to 10 percent slopesP176C390627681752qt38wy01119781:24000
Iwait-Ziggy-Ucross loams, cool, 3 to 10 percent slopesQ0824C46724392502mw7hwy01119781:24000
Ziggy loam, 2 to 6 percent slopesP554B45127459442s034wy01119781:24000
Oshoto-Ziggy silt loams, 0 to 6 percent slopes233137780147v5t1wy01119781:24000
Deekay-Ziggy loams, 0 to 6 percent slopes22265780126v5scwy01119781:24000
Iwait-Ucross-Ziggy loams, 2 to 10 percent slopesP176C106927459882qt38wy04519841:24000
Ucross-Fairburn-Ziggy loams, 6 to 30 percent slopesP530E9127682172s02pwy04519841:24000
Ziggy-Fairburn complex, 2 to 15 percent slopesP558D527682182s036wy04519841:24000
Ziggy-Ucross-Oldwolf loams, 3 to 15 percent slopes250156283499512yryjwy60519951:24000
Ziggy-Iwait loams, 0 to 6 percent slopes2486924349949cr4pwy60519951:24000
Deekay-Ziggy loams, 0 to 6 percent slopes1365027349821cr0kwy60519951:24000
Ziggy-Iwait loams, 6 to 15 percent slopes2492207349950cr4qwy60519951:24000
Iwait-Ziggy-Deekay loams, 6 to 9 percent slopes9018223839541hlzfwy63319871:24000
Deekay-Ziggy loams, 0 to 6 percent slopes1367745817526wfptwy70520031:24000
Oshoto-Ziggy silt loams, 0 to 6 percent slopes3036762817567wfr4wy70520031:24000
Ziggy-Iwait loams, 0 to 6 percent slopes2485565817614wfsnwy70520031:24000
Ziggy-Iwait loams, 6 to 15 percent slopes2492348817615wfspwy70520031:24000
Ziggy-Ucross-Oldwolf loams, 3 to 15 percent slopes25013658176162yryjwy70520031:24000
Iwait-Ziggy-Deekay loams, 6 to 9 percent slopes90156513886271hlzfwy71920131:24000
Ziggy-Iwait loams, 0 to 6 percent slopes85186186815620pz3wy71920131:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the ZIGGY 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 .