IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sharp
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 08SS28202
  • User Pedon ID: 08SS28202
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 08SS28202
  • User Site Association ID: BristolBay_POLARIS_plots
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - 08SS282
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 09N0085
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23991
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 59.8188889
  • Std. Longitude: -156.3266667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: D36MTG—Western Maritime Mountains
  • State: Alaska
  • County: AK070—Dillingham Census Area
  • MLRA: 236—Bristol Bay-Northern Alaska Peninsula Lowlands
  • Regional Office: 1—Portland, OR
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: AK-HOM—Homer, Alaska
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AK636—Bristol Bay-Northern Alaska Peninsula, North and Bordering Areas, Alaska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: SS
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, isotic Typic Dystrocryepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sharp (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 27 to 102 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/9/2014
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - R30ADCMT
  • Classificaton Date - 7/31/2008
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • QC Status: level 1
  • Field Measured Properties: 80 m of SL-LN


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: organic material over gravelly colluvium over residuum
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank, upper third
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    R236XY104AK Alpine Dwarf Scrub Gravelly Slopes Barber, Phillip

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/31/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: D, ES, SEDGE
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ANNA

    ARAL2

    ARAR9

    ARFR2

    BENA

    CACA4

    CALA7

    CAMIN

    CAPO

    EMNI

    HEMA80

    HIALA

    LAGL2

    LEPAD

    LUAR5

    MIAR3

    OXMA2

    PELA

    POAR2

    POBI5

    RHINI

    SAAN3

    SAAR27

    SARE2

    TOPU

    VAUL

    VAVI

    Anemone narcissiflora

    Arctostaphylos alpina

    Artemisia arctica

    Arnica frigida

    Betula nana

    Calamagrostis canadensis

    Campanula lasiocarpa

    Carex microchaeta ssp. nesophila

    Carex podocarpa

    Empetrum nigrum

    Heracleum maximum

    Hierochloe alpina ssp. alpina

    Lagotis glauca

    Ledum palustre ssp. decumbens

    Luzula arcuata

    Minuartia arctica

    Oxytropis maydelliana

    Pedicularis labradorica

    Poa arctica

    Polygonum bistorta

    Rhodiola integrifolia ssp. integrifolia

    Saussurea angustifolia

    Salix arctica

    Salix reticulata

    Tofieldia pusilla

    Vaccinium uliginosum

    Vaccinium vitis-idaea

    narcissus anemone

    alpine bearberry

    boreal sagebrush

    snow arnica

    dwarf birch

    bluejoint

    mountain harebell

    Bering Sea sedge

    shortstalk sedge

    black crowberry

    common cowparsnip

    alpine sweetgrass

    weaselsnout

    marsh Labrador tea

    curved woodrush

    arctic stitchwort

    Maydell's oxytrope

    Labrador lousewort

    arctic bluegrass

    meadow bistort

    ledge stonecrop

    narrowleaf saw-wort

    arctic willow

    netleaf willow

    Scotch false asphodel

    bog blueberry

    lingonberry

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    140 - 165

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
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    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—6

    6—69

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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

    12

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    Oe—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6.
    A—2 to 6 centimeters (0.8 to 2.4 inches); very dark brown (7.5YR 2.5/2) silt loam; 20 percent sand; 72 percent silt; 8 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9.
    Bw1—6 to 28 centimeters (2.4 to 11.0 inches); 45 percent brown (10YR 4/3) gravelly silt loam; 28 percent sand; 64 percent silt; 8 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; 10 percent medium masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 76-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4.
    Bw2—28 to 69 centimeters (11.0 to 27.2 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) very gravelly silt loam; 40 percent sand; 53 percent silt; 7 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 76-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 40 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1.
    Bw3—69 to 140 centimeters (27.2 to 55.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) extremely stony loam; 47 percent sand; 44 percent silt; 9 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 250-?-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 76-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0.
    R—140 to 165 centimeters (55.1 to 65.0 inches); bedrock; fragments.