IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Galva
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1984IA1670021
  • User Pedon ID: 84IA1670021
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0395
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 56111
  • 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: 42.9377785
  • Std. Longitude: -96.2850037
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 94N
  • Range: 46W
  • Section: 28
  • PLSS Details: 2050 feet E and 264 feet S of NE corner
  • Location Description: P. Dykstra 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 #: 2
  • 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 - taxadjunct
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1984
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • 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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—15

    15—86

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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

    11

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    225

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    1Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior silty clay loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P01914. 10YR 4/3 streaks.; few fine roots
    1Bw1—15 to 33 centimeters (5.9 to 13.0 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 # 85P01915. very few fine roots; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 218446; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 218446
    1Bw2—33 to 51 centimeters (13.0 to 20.1 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 # 85P01916
    1Bw2—51 to 66 centimeters (20.1 to 26.0 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 # 85P01917
    1BC—66 to 86 centimeters (26.0 to 33.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silt loam; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) fine distinct mottles; weak medium prismatic, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent lime masses; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P01918. few soft masses of lime concentrations; few fine distinct 7.5YR46 mottles
    1C1—86 to 107 centimeters (33.9 to 42.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) fine distinct mottles; weak medium prismatic structure; friable; 1 percent lime masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P01919. few soft masses of lime concentrations; few fine distinct 7.5YR46 mottles
    1C2—107 to 152 centimeters (42.1 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; 11 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) medium distinct mottles; massive; friable; 1 percent lime masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog. Not sampled.; few soft masses of lime concentrations; common medium distinct 10YR62 mottles