IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sarkar
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1983AK130111
  • User Pedon ID: 83AK130111
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 83P0814
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 53595
  • 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: 55.9249992
  • Std. Longitude: -133.7647247
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 68S
  • Range: 75E
  • Section: 26
  • PLSS Details: SE 1/4 SW 1/4
  • State: Alaska
  • County: AK130—Ketchikan Gateway Borough

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. Hopper
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive Lithic Haplocryods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 111
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sarkar
  • PSC - 0 to 44 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Plot NO. 110-2
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1983
  • 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

    spodic horizon

    5—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

    15

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    17

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    225

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    Oe—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); weak red (2.5YR 5/2) interior mucky peat; 5.5 very fine and fine roots and 5.5 medium and coarse roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P04133. many medium and coarse roots; many very fine and fine roots
    Oa—5 to 25 centimeters (2.0 to 9.8 inches); weak red (2.5YR 5/2) interior and black (N 2/0) interior muck; weak medium subangular blocky structure; 5.5 very fine and fine roots and 5.5 medium and coarse roots; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 83P04134. many medium and coarse roots; many very fine and fine roots
    E—25 to 30 centimeters (9.8 to 11.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/2) interior very fine sandy loam; 60 percent sand; 5 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; weakly smeary; 5.5 very fine and fine roots and 1.0 medium roots; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 83P04135. Less than five percent coarse fragments.; few to common medium roots; many very fine and fine roots
    Bs—30 to 54 centimeters (11.8 to 21.3 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) interior very fine sandy loam; 60 percent sand; 5 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately smeary; 5.5 very fine and fine roots and 2.5 medium roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 83P04136. Less than five percent coarse fragments. Common, medium pockets of (7.5YR 4/4); common medium and small pockets, coatings on ped faces and accumulations along old root channels of (2.5YR 3/2).; common medium roots; many very fine and fine roots
    Bhs—54 to 69 centimeters (21.3 to 27.2 inches); black (N 2/0) interior gravelly very fine sandy loam; 60 percent sand; 5 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately smeary; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; fragments; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 83P04137. 20 percent coarse gravel. Common medium and large pockets of (2.5YR 2.5/2) and (5YR 2.5/2).; common very fine and fine roots
    R—69 to 100 centimeters (27.2 to 39.4 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments. Not sampled. Limestone bedrock.