Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the ZURICH soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of ZURICH, 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 ZURICH 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 ZURICH 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 ZURICH 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 ZURICH 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 ZURICH 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 ZURICH 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 ZURICH 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 ZURICH 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 ZURICH, 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 ZURICH 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
Zurich silt loam, 2 to 4 percent slopes696B1060210890528sh6il03120081:12000
Zurich silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes696A21525181422wsqril03120081:12000
Zurich silt loam, 4 to 6 percent slopes, eroded696C2131210890628sh7il03120081:12000
Zurich silt loam, 6 to 12 percent slopes, eroded696D211421089072wsrvil03120081:12000
Zurich silt loam, 2 to 4 percent slopes696B77918344364wjil04319981:12000
Zurich silt loam, 4 to 6 percent slopes, eroded696C28818344464wkil04319981:12000
Zurich silt loam 2 to 4 percent slopes696B10981988636nxyil08920001:12000
Zurich and Ozaukee silt loams, 2 to 4 percent slopes840B4060809241w52kil09720031:12000
Zurich silt loam, 2 to 4 percent slopes696B3793777732v394il09720031:12000
Zurich silt loam, 4 to 6 percent slopes, eroded696C21930777733v395il09720031:12000
Zurich and Ozaukee silt loams, 4 to 6 percent slopes, eroded840C21700809242w52lil09720031:12000
Zurich silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes696A11157777312wsqril09720031:12000
Zurich silt loam, 6 to 12 percent slopes, eroded696D29327777362wsrvil09720031:12000
Zurich and Nappanee silt loams, 2 to 4 percent slopes983B820810020w5wpil09720031:12000
Zurich silt loam, 12 to 18 percent slopes, erodedZuD215341722035s5yoh04319981:12000
Zurich silt loam, 6 to 12 percent slopes, erodedZuC211821722025s5xoh04319981:12000
Zurich silt loam, 25 to 40 percent slopesZuF8661722055s60oh04319981:12000
Zurich silt loam, 18 to 25 percent slopes, erodedZuE22741722045s5zoh04319981:12000
Hortonville-Boyer-Zurich complex, 20 to 35 percent slopesHzE28704223142wpy6wi06119781:15840
Hortonville-Boyer-Zurich complex, 2 to 6 percent slopesHzB22324223112wpy1wi06119781:15840
Hortonville-Boyer-Zurich complex, 6 to 12 percent slopes, erodedHzC217944223122wpy4wi06119781:15840
Waymor-Casco-Zurich complex, 6 to 12 percent slopes, erodedWzC21310422366g5hqwi06119781:15840
Hortonville-Boyer-Zurich complex, 12 to 20 percent slopes, erodedHzD212984223132wpy5wi06119781:15840
Waymor-Casco-Zurich complex, 1 to 6 percent slopesWzB799422365g5hpwi06119781:15840
Waymor-Casco-Zurich complex, 12 to 20 percent slopesWzD690422367g5hrwi06119781:15840
Waymor-Casco-Zurich complex, 20 to 35 percent slopesWzE641422368g5hswi06119781:15840
Zurich silt loam, Lake Michigan Lobe, 2 to 6 percent slopesZuB6224223702wsqpwi06119781:15840
Zurich silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopesZuA2154223692wsqrwi06119781:15840
Zurich silt loam, Lake Michigan Lobe , 6 to 12 percent slopes, erodedZuC22004223712wpy3wi06119781:15840
Zurich silt loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes, erodedZuB29704260292wsrtwi08919671:15840
Zurich silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopesZuA3174260282wsqrwi08919671:15840
Zurich silt loam, 95B, 2 to 6 percent slopesZuB12114264192wsqqwi10519701:20000
Zurich silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopesZuA3534264182wsqrwi10519701:20000
Zurich silt loam, 6 to 12 percent slopes, erodedZuC21784264202wsrvwi10519701:20000
Zurich silt loam, Lake Michigan Lobe, 2 to 6 percent slopesZuB7724239462wsqpwi11719741:15840
Zurich silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopesZuA3164239452wsqrwi11719741:15840
Zurich silt loam, 95B, 2 to 6 percent slopesZuB16814257962wsqqwi13119671:15840
Zurich silt loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes, erodedZuB26954257972wsrtwi13119671:15840
Zurich silt loam, 6 to 12 percent slopes, erodedZuC25584257982wsrvwi13119671:15840
Zurich silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopesZuA5054257952wsqrwi13119671:15840
Zurich silt loam, glossic phase, 2 to 6 percent slopesZzB24984227642wsqnwi13519821:15840
Zurich silt loam, Lake Michigan Lobe, 2 to 6 percent slopesZuB60004229152wsqpwi60019761:15840
Zurich silt loam, Lake Michigan Lobe , 6 to 12 percent slopes, erodedZuC28144229162wpy3wi60019761:15840
Zurich silt loam, 95B, 2 to 6 percent slopesZuB4884241312wsqqwi60119671:15840
Zurich silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopesZuA2934241302wsqrwi60119671:15840
Zurich silt loam, 6 to 12 percent slopes, erodedZuC21044241322wsrvwi60119671:15840

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the ZURICH 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 .