Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the ZIMBOB soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of ZIMBOB, 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 ZIMBOB 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
28B06N0249S2005NV007008Zimbob7Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties41.0511093,-114.7608032

Water Balance

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

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

Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with ZIMBOB, 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. NV-2012-05-09-27 | Western White Pine County Area, Parts of White Pine and Eureka Counties - 1998

    The location of individual map unit components on a bolson landscape (Soil Survey of Western White Pine County Area, Nevada, Parts of White Pine and Eureka Counties; 1998).

Map Units

Map units containing ZIMBOB 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
Zimbob-Hyzen-Rock outcrop association111535626340092wbksnv62119711:24000
Zimbob association66151825114342q8znnv76420211:24000
Tecomar-Zimbob association97529654478549j1z2nv76619941:24000
Zimbob association66250364781902t6gnnv76619941:24000
Zimbob-Pookaloo association97214006478546j1yznv76619941:24000
Zimbob-Hyzen-Rock outcrop association69113834781932wbksnv76619941:24000
Zimbob-Tecomar-Pookaloo association97410104478548j1z1nv76619941:24000
Palinor-Zimbob-Tecomar association8517558478497j1xdnv76619941:24000
Theriot-Zimbob association8706461478507j1xqnv76619941:24000
Palinor-Zimbob-Okan association4222972478329j1qznv76619941:24000
Hyzen-Zimbob association9901845478552j1z5nv76619941:24000
Zimbob-Hyzen-Rock outcrop association11268726340392rhk0nv77619831:63360
Tecomar-Pookaloo-Zimbob association61202251822157712whnfnv77820131:24000
Tecomar-Zimbob-Pookaloo association11441512622158282dcrbnv77820131:24000
Hyzen-Zimbob-Rock outcrop association38601204822157212whn9nv77820131:24000
Zimbob-Pookaloo association6972450822157692tzjrnv77820131:24000
Zimbob-Rock outcrop complex, 15 to 50 percent slopes3581289722157142whnbnv77820131:24000
Zimbob-Palinor association611936522157702dcpgnv77820131:24000
Pookaloo-Zimbob-Hyzen association11422253637437pd9hnv77920041:24000
Zimbob association10009594799192t6gnnv77920041:24000
Tecomar-Zimbob-Pookaloo association114455128172392tzh9nv77920041:24000
Zimbob-Pookaloo association9777605826340922rn40nv78019901:24000
Tecomar-Pookaloo-Zimbob association12010626480193j3p3nv78019901:24000
Zimbob-Hyzen-Rock outcrop association111100094801592wbksnv78019901:24000
Zimbob-Eaglepass association11528064480175j3njnv78019901:24000
Zimbob association11080514801572t6gnnv78019901:24000
Zimbob-Rock outcrop association11516102480174j3nhnv78019901:24000
Zimbob-Palinor association1196094480191j3p1nv78019901:24000
Tecomer-Zimbob-Pookaloo association1144535928172562tzj1nv78019901:24000
Pookaloo-Zimbob-Hyzen association1044915480145j3mknv78019901:24000
Hyzen-Zimbob-Rock outcrop association386010074802432whn9nv78019901:24000
Hyzen-Zimbob-Rock outcrop association3860627614810682whn9nv78319911:24000
Zimbob-Rock outcrop complex, 15 to 50 percent slopes3581293674810022whnbnv78319911:24000
Tecomar-Pookaloo-Zimbob association612018128172832whnfnv78319911:24000
Zimbob-Pookaloo-Cavehill association129115310481156j4p5nv78420061:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the ZIMBOB 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 .