IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sarkar
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1983AK130004
  • User Pedon ID: 83AK130004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 83P0835
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 53616
  • 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: 55.0027771
  • Std. Longitude: -133.1600037
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 79S
  • Range: 81E
  • Section: 22
  • PLSS Details: SE 1/4
  • State: Alaska
  • County: AK130—Ketchikan Gateway Borough

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. Hopper
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sarkar
  • Taxonomic Class - Thixotropic Humic Lithic Cryorthods
  • PSC - 0 to 42 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1983
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/1983 (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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    spodic horizon

    3—36

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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

    10

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    Oe—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) interior unknown texture; massive; nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 2.5 medium roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P04224. Texture is hemic.; common very fine and fine roots; common medium roots
    Oa—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); black (N 2/0) interior unknown texture; massive; nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 2.5 medium roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P04225. Texture is sapric.; common very fine and fine roots; common medium roots
    E—20 to 23 centimeters (7.9 to 9.1 inches); very dark gray (N 3/0) interior very gravelly fine sandy loam; massive; nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium and coarse roots; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 83P04226. 20 percent gravel.; few very fine and fine roots; few medium and coarse roots
    Bs1—23 to 39 centimeters (9.1 to 15.4 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior gravelly loam; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) mottles; massive; nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 medium and coarse roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P04227. 20 percent gravel.; common very fine roots; few medium and coarse roots; very few to few 7.5YR46 mottles
    Bs2—39 to 56 centimeters (15.4 to 22.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) interior gravelly loam; massive; nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 medium and coarse roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P04228. 20 percent gravel.; common very fine roots; few medium and coarse roots
    BC—56 to 62 centimeters (22.0 to 24.4 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) interior silt loam; massive; nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 medium and coarse roots and 0.5 fine roots; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 83P04229. 10 percent gravel.; few fine roots; few medium and coarse roots
    R—62 to 100 centimeters (24.4 to 39.4 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments. Not sampled. Marble-grey and white.