IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Karta
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1983AK130163
  • User Pedon ID: 83AK130163
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 83P0833
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 53614
  • Print Date: 9/23/2024

    • 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: 55.9666672
  • Std. Longitude: -133.6125031
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 68S
  • Range: 76E
  • Section: 15
  • PLSS Details: NW 1/4 SW 1/4
  • State: Alaska
  • County: AK130—Ketchikan Gateway Borough

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. Hopper
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed Typic Humicryods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 163
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Karta
  • PSC - 25 to 88 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Plot No. 163
  • Taxonomic Class - Thixotropic Typic Cryorthod
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1983
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: terrace—stream or lake
  • 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

    2—29

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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

    5

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    90

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    225

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    Oe—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); dark reddish gray (10R 3/1) interior mucky peat; 5.5 very fine and fine roots and 5.5 medium and coarse roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P04216. many medium and coarse roots; many very fine and fine roots
    Oa—2 to 8 centimeters (0.8 to 3.1 inches); black (N 2/0) interior muck; moderate fine granular, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; 5.5 very fine and fine roots and 5.5 medium and coarse roots; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 83P04216. many medium and coarse roots; many very fine and fine roots
    E—8 to 10 centimeters (3.1 to 3.9 inches); dark reddish gray (5YR 4/2) interior very fine sandy loam; 60 percent sand; 5 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; weakly smeary; 5.5 very fine and fine roots and 2.5 medium and coarse roots; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 83P04217. Five percent gravel.; common medium and coarse roots; many very fine and fine roots
    Bhs—10 to 18 centimeters (3.9 to 7.1 inches); very dark gray (5YR 3/1) interior and dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) interior very fine sandy loam; 60 percent sand; 5 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately smeary; 5.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 83P04217. Five percent gravel.; few coarse roots; many very fine and fine roots
    Bs—18 to 37 centimeters (7.1 to 14.6 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior very gravelly fine sandy loam; 60 percent sand; 15 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately smeary; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 83P04217. 20 percent gravel. Common medium and fine pockets and accumulations on ped faces of (5YR 3/3) and (5YR 3/2).; few medium roots; common very fine and fine roots
    C—37 to 96 centimeters (14.6 to 37.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior very gravelly sandy loam; 60 percent sand; 10 percent clay; massive; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; weakly smeary; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; fragments. Lab sample # 83P04218. 40 percent gravel. Common fine streaks of (5YR 4/4).; few very fine and fine roots