Soil Data Explorer - GAVINS

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the GAVINS soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of GAVINS, 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 GAVINS were used in the calculation. Source: KSSL snapshot (updated 2020-03-18). 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 GAVINS 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 GAVINS series. Sketches are arranged according to their subgroup-level taxonomic structure. Source: SSURGO snapshot (updated 2024-02-21), parsed OSD records (updated 2023-10-06) and snapshot of SC database (updated 2023-10-02).

Select annual climate data summaries for the GAVINS 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 2023-10-09).

Geomorphic description summaries for the GAVINS 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 2023-10-04).

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

Competing Series

Soil series competing with GAVINS share the same family level classification in Soil Taxonomy. Source: parsed OSD records (updated 2023-10-06) and snapshot of the SC database (updated 2023-10-02).

Select annual climate data summaries for the GAVINS 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 2023-10-09).

There are insufficient data to create the annual climate figure.

Geomorphic description summaries for the GAVINS 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 2023-10-04).

There are insufficient data to create the 2D hillslope position figure.

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

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

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

There are insufficient data to create the 3D flats position figure.

Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with GAVINS, 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 2023-10-02).

Block Diagrams

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

1. NE-2012-02-10-03 | Cedar County - October 1985

   Typical pattern of soils in the Crofton-Alcester association and the relationship of the soils to topography and parent material (Soil Survey of Cedar County, Nebraska; October 1985).

Map Units

Map units containing GAVINS 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
Gavins silt loam, 6 to 17 percent slopes	6762	2665	427102	gbfh	ne027	1982	1:20000
Crofton-Gavins silt loams, 30 to 60 percent slopes	6788	936	427093	gbf6	ne027	1982	1:20000
Gavins silt loam, 17 to 30 percent slopes	6760	806	427103	gbfj	ne027	1982	1:20000
Gavins silt loam, 30 to 60 percent slopes	6761	249	2216816	2dds6	ne027	1982	1:20000
Redstoe-Gavins complex, 11 to 30 percent slopes	6829	11	2216819	2dds9	ne027	1982	1:20000
Gavins silt loam, 30 to 60 percent slopes	6761	2225	1144242	17dp1	ne107	1989	1:20000
Redstoe-Gavins complex, 11 to 30 percent slopes	6829	1373	1144285	17dqf	ne107	1989	1:20000
Gavins-Ethan loams, 15 to 40 percent slopes	GeE	1461	418273	g17p	sd009	1981	1:20000
Redstoe variant-Gavins complex, 6 to 25 percent slopes	ReD	549	418284	g181	sd009	1981	1:20000
Lowry-Gavins silt loams, 6 to 40 percent slopes	LrF	1031	355050	cxg7	sd023	1980	1:20000
Gavins-Sansarc complex, 15 to 25 percent slopes	GsE	414	355027	cxfh	sd023	1980	1:20000
Betts-Gavins complex, 15 to 40 percent slopes	BlE	969	352902	cv6y	sd035	1966	1:20000
Betts-Gavins complex, 15 to 40 percent slopes	BdE	858	418052	g10k	sd135	1977	1:20000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the GAVINS 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 2023-10-04).