IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Remedios
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1982AK130004
  • User Pedon ID: 82AK130004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 83P0206
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 52448
  • Print Date: 4/19/2025

    • 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: 55.7916679
  • Std. Longitude: -133.2833405
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 70S
  • Range: 79E
  • Section: 22
  • PLSS Details: NE 1/4 NW 1/4
  • State: Alaska
  • County: AK130—Ketchikan Gateway Borough

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. Hopper
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed Typic Haplocryods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Remedios
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tuxekan I
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1982
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1982 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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

    35

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    50

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    180

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    Oe1—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches);, very dark gray (5YR 3/1) interior, dry; unknown texture; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P00950. many very fine and fine roots
    Oe2—3 to 13 centimeters (1.2 to 5.1 inches);, very dark gray (5YR 3/1) interior, dry; partially decomposed organic matter; very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots and 5.0 medium and coarse roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P00950. common to many medium and coarse roots; many very fine and fine roots
    Bs1—13 to 33 centimeters (5.1 to 13.0 inches);, reddish brown (5YR 5/3) interior, dry; silt loam; 10 percent clay; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; moderately smeary; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2), dry, organic stains; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 83P00951. few medium roots; common very fine and fine roots
    Bs2—33 to 56 centimeters (13.0 to 22.0 inches);, reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior, dry; gravelly silt loam; 15 percent clay; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; moderately smeary; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; fragments; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 83P00952. Mixed color pattern due primarily to completely weathered gravels and cobbletones from the original conglomerate. There are also decomposed roots. Colors include: (7.5YR 7/4, 5YR 4/1, 5YR 5/8, 7.5YR 2/0).; few fine roots; common very fine roots
    BC—56 to 97 centimeters (22.0 to 38.2 inches);, dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) interior and very dark gray (5YR 3/1) interior, dry; very gravelly loam; 5 percent clay; massive; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; moderately smeary; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; fragments. Lab sample # 83P00953. Heavy organic staining in upper part of horizon.; few very fine and fine roots