IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kupreanof
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1983AK122008
  • User Pedon ID: 83AK122008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 84P0014
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 53708
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 59.3311119
  • Std. Longitude: -151.9069519
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 10S
  • Range: 14W
  • Section: 7
  • PLSS Details: 61 meters E and 153 meters S of NW corner
  • State: Alaska
  • County: AK122—Kenai Peninsula Borough
  • MLRA: 169—South-Central Alaska Mountains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Van atten and T. Dillon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kupreanof
  • Taxonomic Class - Thixotropic-skeletal Humic Cryorthods
  • Classificaton Date - 12/1/1983
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/1/1983 (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

    ochric epipedon

    spodic 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

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    Oi—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); partially decomposed organic matter; fragments. Not sampled.
    E—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately smeary; 5.5 very fine and fine roots and 5.5 medium roots; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P00078. many very fine and fine roots; many medium roots
    Bhs1—15 to 25 centimeters (5.9 to 9.8 inches); very dusky red (2.5YR 2/2) interior very gravelly silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately smeary; 5.5 very fine and fine roots; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P00079. many very fine and fine roots
    Bhs2—25 to 65 centimeters (9.8 to 25.6 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) interior very gravelly silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately smeary; 5.5 very fine and fine roots; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P00080. many very fine and fine roots
    Bs—65 to 85 centimeters (25.6 to 33.5 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior very gravelly sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately smeary; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P00081. common very fine and fine roots
    BC—85 to 105 centimeters (33.5 to 41.3 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior very gravelly sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 84P00082. few very fine roots