| Abstract: | The permeability of soils in Mississippi was determined and mapped using a geographic information system (GIS). Soil permeabilities in Mississippi were determined to range in value from nearly 0.0 to values exceeding 5.0 inches per hour. The U.S. Soil Conservation Service‘s State Soil Geographic Data Base (STATSGO) was used as the primary source of data for the determination of area-weighted soil permeability. STATSGO provides soil layer properties that are spatially referenced to mapped areas. These mapped areas are referred to as polygons in the GIS. The polygons arc boundaries of soils mapped as a group and are given unique Map Unit Identifiers (MUIDs). The data describing the physical characteristics of the soils within each polygon are stored in a tabular data base format and are referred to as attributes. The U.S. Soil Conservation Service developed STATSGO to be primarily used as a guide for regional resource planning, management, and monitoring. STATSGO was designed so that soil information could be extracted from properties tables at the layer level, combined by component, and statistically expanded to cover the entire map unit. The results of this study provide a mapped value for permeability which is representative of the vertical permeability of soils in that area. The resultant permeability map provides a representative vertical soil permeability for a given area sufficient for county, multi- county, and area planning, and will be used as the soil permeability data component in the evaluation of the susceptibility of major aquifers to contami- nation in Mississippi. |
| Genre: | USGS Numbered Series |
| ProdID: | 44728 |
| Citation Author: | O'Hara, Charles G. |
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| Citation Language: | ENGLISH |
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| Citation LatN: | 0350000 |
| Citation LatS: | 0300000 |
| Citation LonE: | -0880700 |
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| Citation Phsyical Description: | 1 map : col. ; 114 x 87 cm., folded in envelope 30 x 24 cm. |
| Citation Projection: | Lambert conformal conic |
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| Citation Series: | Water-Resources Investigations Report |
| Citation Series Code: | WRI |
| Citation Series Number: | 94-4088 |
| Citation Search Results Text: | Permeability of soils in Mississippi; 1994; WRI; 94-4088; O‘Hara, Charles G. |
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| Citation Year: | 1994 |
| Type: | citation/reference |
| Text: | Permeability of soils in Mississippi; 1994; WRI; 94-4088; O‘Hara, Charles G. |
| URL (THUMBNAIL): | http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/thumbnails/usgs_thumb.jpg |
| URL (PLATE): | http://pubs.usgs.gov/wri/1994/4088/plate-1.pdf |
| Date Other: | Tue, 10 Jan 1995 00:00 -0600 |
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