IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mutnala
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1983AK122001
  • User Pedon ID: 83AK122001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 83P0837
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 53618
  • Print Date: 11/25/2024

    • 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: 59.7513885
  • Std. Longitude: -151.8180542
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5S
  • Range: 15W
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: 46 meters S and 5 meters W of NE corner
  • State: Alaska
  • County: AK122—Kenai Peninsula Borough
  • MLRA: 170—Cook Inlet-Susitna Lowland

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Van Patten
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mutnala
  • Taxonomic Class - Thixotropic over loamy-skeletal Typic Cryorthods
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1983
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: dead ice moraine
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1983 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • 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

    spodic horizon

    14—47

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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

    9

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    68

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    135

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    Oe—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); undecomposed organic matter; nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Not sampled.; many very fine and fine roots
    E—10 to 13 centimeters (3.9 to 5.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) interior very fine sandy loam; weak fine platy structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 83P04235. Combined with the Bhs and Oab horizons in sampling.; common very fine and fine roots
    Bhs—13 to 15 centimeters (5.1 to 5.9 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 2/2) interior very fine sandy loam; weak fine platy structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 83P04235. Combined with the E and Oab horizons in sampling; common very fine and fine roots
    Oab—15 to 18 centimeters (5.9 to 7.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 2/2) interior Error; weak fine platy structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 83P04235. Combined with the E and Bhs horizons in sampling.; common very fine and fine roots
    Eb—18 to 24 centimeters (7.1 to 9.4 inches); dark reddish gray (5YR 4/2) interior very fine sandy loam; weak fine platy structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, cresol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P04236. common very fine and fine roots
    Bhsb—24 to 30 centimeters (9.4 to 11.8 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) interior silt loam; strong very fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, cresol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P04237. common very fine and fine roots
    Bsb1—30 to 43 centimeters (11.8 to 16.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silt loam; weak coarse subangular blocky, and strong very fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, cresol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P04238. few fine roots
    Bsb2—43 to 57 centimeters (16.9 to 22.4 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) interior loamy very fine sand; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; weakly smeary; 0.5 fine roots; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, cresol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P04239. few fine roots
    2BC—57 to 86 centimeters (22.4 to 33.9 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) interior gravelly sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, cresol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P04240
    2C—86 to 125 centimeters (33.9 to 49.2 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior gravelly sandy loam; massive; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, cresol red. Lab sample # 83P04241