IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kanakanak
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 10SS02801
  • User Pedon ID: 10SS02801
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 10SS02801
  • User Site Association ID: BristolBay_POLARIS_plots
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - 10SS028
  • Transect Stop Number - 1
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N1332
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 36924
  • Print Date: 1/10/2025

    • 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: 59.0763889
  • Std. Longitude: -158.5650000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 36KA11—Kanakanak highly organic silt loam, 0 to 6 percent slopes
  • 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: Medial over loamy, amorphic over isotic Andic Humicryods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Kanakanak
  • PSC - 35 to 110 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/23/2014
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - 36-Kanakanak
  • Classificaton Date - 7/19/2010
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • QC Status: level 3
  • Field Measured Properties: 14 cm of depth to charcoal


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: herbaceous organic material over coarse-silty volcanic ash over coarse-silty loess
  • Landform: plain
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • 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
    F236XY115AK Boreal Forest Loamy Moist Slopes Barber, Phillip
  • Vegplot Text Note(s): AK SITE Access Database

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/19/2010 (actual site observation date)
  • 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

    BEPAK

    BEPAK

    CACA4

    CHAN9

    COSU4

    DREX2

    EQAR

    EQSY

    GYDR

    HYSP70

    LIBO3

    PEAP60

    PIGL

    PIGL

    PLSC70

    POLYT5

    PTCR70

    RUAR

    SPST3

    STAM2

    STBO3

    TREU

    VAVI

    VIED

    Betula papyrifera var. kenaica

    Betula papyrifera var. kenaica

    Calamagrostis canadensis

    Chamerion angustifolium

    Cornus suecica

    Dryopteris expansa

    Equisetum arvense

    Equisetum sylvaticum

    Gymnocarpium dryopteris

    Hylocomium splendens

    Linnaea borealis

    Peltigera aphthosa

    Picea glauca

    Picea glauca

    Pleurozium schreberi

    Polytrichum

    Ptilium crista-castrensis

    Rubus arcticus

    Spiraea stevenii

    Streptopus amplexifolius

    Stellaria borealis

    Trientalis europaea

    Vaccinium vitis-idaea

    Viburnum edule

    Kenai birch

    Kenai birch

    bluejoint

    fireweed

    Lapland cornel

    spreading woodfern

    field horsetail

    woodland horsetail

    western oakfern

    splendid feather moss

    twinflower

    felt lichen

    white spruce

    white spruce

    Schreber's big red stem moss

    polytrichum moss

    knights plume moss

    arctic raspberry

    beauverd spirea

    claspleaf twistedstalk

    boreal starwort

    arctic starflower

    lingonberry

    squashberry

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    albic horizon

    andic soil properties

    spodic horizon

    redox concentrations

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    aquic conditions

    0—15

    10—15

    15—50

    15—50

    83—190

    170—190

    170—190

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    Site Soil Temperature
    Site Obs. Date Depth Sensor Kind Temperature
    cm C

    7/19/2010

    50

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    4
    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

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    100

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    Oe—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; 10 percent clay; nonsticky, nonplastic; 7.0 very fine roots and 7.0 medium roots and 7.0 fine roots and 2.0 coarse roots; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0; abrupt smooth boundary.
    E—10 to 15 centimeters (3.9 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) highly organic silt loam; 22 percent sand; 68 percent silt; 10 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 3.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots and 3.0 coarse roots; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4; clear wavy boundary.
    Bhs—15 to 29 centimeters (5.9 to 11.4 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 2.5/2) highly organic medial silt loam; 24 percent sand; 66 percent silt; 10 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.0 very fine roots and 1.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3; clear wavy boundary.
    Bs—29 to 50 centimeters (11.4 to 19.7 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) medial silt loam; 15 percent sand; 76 percent silt; 9 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.0 very fine roots and 1.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; gradual smooth boundary.
    BC1—50 to 83 centimeters (19.7 to 32.7 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; 18 percent sand; 75 percent silt; 7 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 very fine roots and 2.0 fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; clear smooth boundary.
    BC2—83 to 170 centimeters (32.7 to 66.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; 17 percent sand; 79 percent silt; 4 percent clay; weak thick platy structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 30 percent coarse dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; gradual smooth boundary.
    C—170 to 183 centimeters (66.9 to 72.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; 17 percent sand; 79 percent silt; 4 percent clay; massive; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3 percent fine grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) iron depletions with sharp boundaries and 25 percent coarse dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron with sharp boundaries; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6.