IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sarkar
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1983AK130153
  • User Pedon ID: 83AK130153
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 83P0831
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 53612
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 55.9958344
  • Std. Longitude: -133.4624939
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 68S
  • Range: 77E
  • Section: 11
  • PLSS Details: NW 1/4 NW 1/4
  • State: Alaska
  • County: AK130—Ketchikan Gateway Borough

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. Hopper
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed Lithic Humicryods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 153
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sarkar
  • PSC - 0 to 22 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Plot No. 153
  • Taxonomic Class - Thixotropic Humic Lithic Cryorthod
  • 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

    4—22

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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

    24

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    30

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    45

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    Oe—0 to 6 centimeters (0.0 to 2.4 inches); dark reddish gray (10R 3/1) interior mucky peat; moderate fine granular, and moderate medium granular structure; 5.5 very fine and fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P04207. many very fine and fine roots
    Oa—6 to 11 centimeters (2.4 to 4.3 inches); very dark gray (5YR 3/1) interior muck; moderate medium granular, and moderate coarse granular structure; 5.5 very fine and fine roots and 5.5 medium roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P04208. many medium roots; many very fine and fine roots
    E—11 to 15 centimeters (4.3 to 5.9 inches); dark gray (5YR 4/1) interior silt loam; 40 percent sand; 10 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots and 5.5 medium and coarse roots; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 83P04209. Less than five percent gravel.; many medium and coarse roots; many very fine and fine roots
    Bh—15 to 33 centimeters (5.9 to 13.0 inches); very dark gray (5YR 3/1) interior silt loam; 40 percent sand; 10 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; weakly smeary; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 2.5 medium and coarse roots; fragments; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 83P04210. Ten percent coarse fragments. Numerous pockets of (5YR 4/1), (7.5YR 3/2) and (N 2/0).; common medium and coarse roots; common very fine and fine roots
    R—33 to 36 centimeters (13.0 to 14.2 inches); unknown texture; fragments. Not sampled.