IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Galva
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1984IA1670011
  • User Pedon ID: 84IA1670011
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0391
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 56107
  • Print Date: 4/24/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 43.0583344
  • Std. Longitude: -96.3472214
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 95N
  • Range: 47W
  • Section: 12
  • PLSS Details: 1815 feet N and 138 feet W of SE corner
  • Location Description: R. Gradert farm.
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA167—Sioux

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Galva
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Galva
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludoll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1984
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1984 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—41

    41—109

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    Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    7

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    315

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    1Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.1, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P01891; moist when described;. few fine roots
    1A1—20 to 41 centimeters (7.9 to 16.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior silty clay loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 0.1 fine roots; very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist, organic stains on faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.1, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P01892; moist when described;. very few fine roots
    1BA—41 to 56 centimeters (16.1 to 22.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.1 fine roots; dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, organic stains on faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P01893; moist when described;. very few fine roots
    1Bw1—56 to 69 centimeters (22.0 to 27.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 85P01894; moist when described;
    1Bw1—69 to 81 centimeters (27.2 to 31.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P01895
    1Bw2—81 to 109 centimeters (31.9 to 42.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; weak fine prismatic, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P01896. Sampled to 94 cm.
    1C—109 to 132 centimeters (42.9 to 52.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silt loam; massive; friable; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Not sampled.
    2C—132 to 152 centimeters (52.0 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay loam; massive; friable; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog. Not sampled.