Soil Data Explorer - ORECART

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the ORECART soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of ORECART, 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 ORECART were used in the calculation. Source: KSSL snapshot (updated 2020-03-13). 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 ORECART 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 ORECART series. Sketches are arranged according to their subgroup-level taxonomic structure. Source: SSURGO snapshot (updated 2024-10-24), parsed OSD records (updated 2024-10-23) and snapshot of SC database (updated 2024-10-23).

Select annual climate data summaries for the ORECART 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 2024-10-23).

Geomorphic description summaries for the ORECART 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 2024-10-23).

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Competing Series

Soil series competing with ORECART share the same family level classification in Soil Taxonomy. Source: parsed OSD records (updated 2024-10-23) and snapshot of the SC database (updated 2024-10-23).

Select annual climate data summaries for the ORECART 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 2024-10-23).

Geomorphic description summaries for the ORECART 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 2024-10-23).

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

Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with ORECART, 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 2024-10-23).

Block Diagrams

Click a link below to display the diagram. Note that these diagrams may be from multiple survey areas.

1. CA-2010-08-30-10 | Benton-Owens Valley Area, Parts of Inyo and Mono Counties - 2002

   Typical pattern of soils in the Mono Basin Area from the Bodie Hills south towards Mono Lake (Soil Survey of Benton-Owens Valley Area, California, Parts of Inyo and Mono Counties; 2002).

Map Units

Map units containing ORECART 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
Orecart-Deepwell families association, 2 to 15 percent slopes.	383	1998	471496	htmk	ca732	1998	1:24000
Dechambeau-Orecart families complex, 1 to 15 percent slopes.	378	1534	471491	htmd	ca732	1998	1:24000
Orecart-Deepwell association, 2 to 15 percent slopes	276bo	419	2535450	jd15	ca732	1998	1:24000
Orecart-Waford-Deepwell association, saline, 2 to 15 percent slopes	278bo	185	2535451	jd17	ca732	1998	1:24000
Alamedawell-Orecart complex, 4 to 15 percent slopes	109bo	102	2229101	2dtkh	ca732	1998	1:24000
Orecart-Waford-Deepwell association, 2 to 15 percent slopes	277bo	10	2384097	2l0vc	ca763	1984	1:24000
Orecart loamy sand, 0 to 4 percent slopes	275	4798	488222	jd13	ca802	1996	1:24000
Orecart-Waford-Deepwell association, 2 to 15 percent slopes	277	4688	488225	jd16	ca802	1996	1:24000
Orecart-Waford-Deepwell association, saline, 2 to 15 percent slopes	278	2635	488226	jd17	ca802	1996	1:24000
Dechambeau-Orecart complex, 2 to 15 percent slopes	183	1983	488076	jcwd	ca802	1996	1:24000
Alamedawell-Orecart complex, 0 to 4 percent slopes	108	1951	488001	jcsz	ca802	1996	1:24000
Alamedawell-Orecart complex, 4 to 15 percent slopes	109	1377	488002	jct0	ca802	1996	1:24000
Orecart-Deepwell association, 2 to 15 percent slopes	276	1065	488224	jd15	ca802	1996	1:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the ORECART 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 2024-10-30).