IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sarkar
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1983AK130043
  • User Pedon ID: 83AK130043
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 83P0827
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 53608
  • 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: 55.9638901
  • Std. Longitude: -133.6125031
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 68S
  • Range: 76E
  • Section: 23
  • PLSS Details: SE 1/4 NW 1/4
  • State: Alaska
  • County: AK130—Ketchikan Gateway Borough

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. Hopper
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive Lithic Humicryods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 43
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sarkar
  • PSC - 0 to 44 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Plot No. 143
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed Cryorthidic Arent
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1983
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: 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

    histic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—26

    0—44

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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

    35

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    90

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    315

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    Oe—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); dusky red (10R 3/2) interior mucky peat; 5.5 very fine and fine roots and 5.5 medium and coarse roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P04186. many medium and coarse roots; many very fine and fine roots
    Oa—4 to 25 centimeters (1.6 to 9.8 inches); black (N 2/0) interior extremely stony muck; 5.5 very fine and fine roots and 5.5 medium and coarse roots; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 60 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 83P04187. Five percent gravel. Numerous large pockets of rotton logs (humic material) (2.5YR 3/6).; many medium and coarse roots; many very fine and fine roots
    BC—25 to 69 centimeters (9.8 to 27.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2) interior extremely stony very fine sandy loam; 60 percent sand; 10 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately smeary; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 15 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 60 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 83P04188. Five percent gravel.; few medium roots; common very fine and fine roots
    R—69 to 76 centimeters (27.2 to 29.9 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments. Not sampled. Limestone bedrock.