Soil Series Atlas

Oxisols

Very highly weathered soils of the tropics

050100150cm1 ft2 ft3 ft4 ftAbove the subsoilTopsoil and any leached layer0–24 cm · 0–9 inSubsoilFirst B horizon to the base of the solum24–152 cm · 9–60 in050100150cmAbove the subsoilTopsoil and any leachedlayer0–24 cm · 0–9 inSubsoilFirst B horizon to thebase of the solum24–152 cm · 9–60 in
The typical Oxisols profile: a schematic drawn to scale from the medians of 60 official series descriptions. It is not a real pedon.

Soil order · 61 established series in the classification database

Oxisols cover 490,795 acres of mapped U.S. soils — <0.1% of all series acres, the 12th largest of the twelve orders — across 61 mapped series.

Median solum thickness in their typical pedons is 152 cm, with the first B horizon at 24 cm. Official descriptions of Oxisols go down a median 152 cm.

Oxisols among the twelve orders

Share of all acres mapped to a named series, with this order highlighted.

Mollisols 27.3% · Alfisols 17.3% · Entisols 12.3% · Ultisols 11.8% · Inceptisols 11.4% · Aridisols 9.7% · Spodosols 3.7% · Vertisols 2.7% · Histosols 1.9% · Andisols 1.3% · Gelisols 0.5% · Oxisols <0.1%

Guide: The twelve soil orders, measured

Largest Oxisols series

Mapped acres in current SSURGO data, across all series in the order.

  1. Los Guineos45,936 acres46 k
  2. Aimeliik44,672 acres45 k
  3. Molokai35,564 acres36 k
  4. Helemano25,247 acres25 k
  5. Lahaina22,463 acres22 k
  6. Bayamon22,290 acres22 k
  7. Wahiawa22,013 acres22 k
  8. Akina19,735 acres20 k
  9. Kapaa18,278 acres18 k
  10. Almirante18,154 acres18 k

Oxisols on this site

1 Oxisols series profiled here, largest first, drawn at one depth scale.

  1. BayamonTypic Hapludox · 0 states · state soil