IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kachemak
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1983AK122006
  • User Pedon ID: 83AK122006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 83P0842
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 53623
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 59.7097206
  • Std. Longitude: -151.4674988
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5S
  • Range: 13W
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: SW 1/4 SE 1/4
  • Location Description: SW side of lookout mountain.
  • State: Alaska
  • County: AK122—Kenai Peninsula Borough
  • MLRA: 170—Cook Inlet-Susitna Lowland

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Van Patten and J. Moore
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Medial over loamy, mixed, superactive Alic Haplocryands
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Kachemak
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kachemak
  • Taxonomic Class - Thixotropic over loamy Typic Cryandept
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1983
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • 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 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—10

    10—60

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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

    25

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    450

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    180

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    Oi—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); undecomposed organic matter; 2.5 fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, cresol red; abrupt boundary. Not sampled. Mat of blujoint.; common fine roots
    A—4 to 14 centimeters (1.6 to 5.5 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior silt loam; strong fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots and 5.5 medium roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P04263. many very fine and fine roots; many medium roots
    Bw1—14 to 40 centimeters (5.5 to 15.7 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) interior silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; weakly smeary; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P04264. common very fine and fine roots; few medium roots
    Bw2—40 to 64 centimeters (15.7 to 25.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) interior silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; weakly smeary; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P04265. common very fine and fine roots
    2C—64 to 104 centimeters (25.2 to 40.9 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) interior loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments. Lab sample # 83P04266. Roots are in upper 10cm.; few fine roots