Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the GOPHERIDGE soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of GOPHERIDGE, 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 GOPHERIDGE 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
1807N0469S2007CA009002Gopheridge7Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties37.9428596,-120.7150269

Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the GOPHERIDGE 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 GOPHERIDGE 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 GOPHERIDGE 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 GOPHERIDGE 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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There are insufficient data to create the 3D mountains figure.

There are insufficient data to create the 3D terrace figure.

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

Competing Series

Soil series competing with GOPHERIDGE 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 GOPHERIDGE 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 GOPHERIDGE 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 mountains figure.

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 GOPHERIDGE, 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

No block diagrams are available.

Map Units

Map units containing GOPHERIDGE 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
Bonanza-Loafercreek-Gopheridge complex, 15 to 30 percent slopes70764109329247522x294ca63020181:24000
Loafercreek-Gopheridge complex, 15 to 30 percent slopes70863703324402402mx8fca63020181:24000
Loafercreek-Gopheridge complex, 30 to 60 percent slopes708827049186592620mn5ca63020181:24000
Gardellones-Gopheridge-Motherlode complex, 30 to 60 percent slopes70891263924508432n89gca63020181:24000
Jasperpeak-Gopheridge complex, 30 to 60 percent slopes7078958329247532x295ca63020181:24000
Loafercreek-Gopheridge complex, cool, 15 to 30 percent slopes7087856824402422mx8hca63020181:24000
Gopheridge-Loafercreek complex, 30 to 60 percent slopes7079512029247542x293ca63020181:24000
Gopheridge-Jasperpeak complex, 50 to 90 percent slopes7096168924264832mfynca63020181:24000
Gopheridge-Jasperpeak-Rock outcrop complex, 30 to 60 percent slopes709296932251352z5lnca63020181:24000
Bonanza-Loafercreek-Gopheridge complex, 15 to 30 percent slopes7076364129249632x294ca63220061:24000
Jasperpeak-Gopheridge complex, 30 to 60 percent slopes70787629249652x295ca63220061:24000
Bonanza-Loafercreek-Gopheridge complex, 15 to 30 percent slopes7076428229249732x294ca64419591:24000
Jasperpeak-Gopheridge complex, 30 to 60 percent slopes70785029249742x295ca64419591:24000
Gopheridge-Jasperpeak complex, 50 to 90 percent slopes70963629249772mfynca64419591:24000
Jasperpeak-Gopheridge complex, 30 to 60 percent slopes70781988929249922x295ca64919671:24000
Gardellones-Gopheridge-Motherlode complex, 30 to 60 percent slopes70891770929249982n89gca64919671:24000
Loafercreek-Gopheridge complex, 30 to 60 percent slopes708814625292499720mn5ca64919671:24000
Gopheridge-Jasperpeak complex, 50 to 90 percent slopes70961353232250832mfynca64919671:24000
Gopheridge-Jasperpeak-Rock outcrop complex, 30 to 60 percent slopes70921299032250752z5lnca64919671:24000
Gopheridge-Loafercreek complex, 30 to 60 percent slopes7079758329249932x293ca64919671:24000
Bonanza-Loafercreek-Gopheridge complex, 15 to 30 percent slopes7076530929249912x294ca64919671:24000
Loafercreek-Gopheridge complex, 15 to 30 percent slopes7086482029249952mx8fca64919671:24000
Loafercreek-Gopheridge complex, cool, 15 to 30 percent slopes7087427929249962mx8hca64919671:24000
Loafercreek-Gopheridge complex, cool, 15 to 30 percent slopes70879632519942mx8hca73119811:24000
Gopheridge-Jasperpeak-Rock outcrop complex, 30 to 60 percent slopes70922532519862z5lnca73119811:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the GOPHERIDGE 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 .