IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kupreanof
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1983AK280006
  • User Pedon ID: 83AK280006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 84P0238
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 53932
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 55.9238892
  • Std. Longitude: -132.1680603
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 68S
  • Range: 86E
  • Section: 31
  • Location Description: Stikine Area Tongass Nat. Forest, in the center of a small, unnamed island, .4 mile south of Brownson Island
  • State: Alaska
  • County: AK280—Wrangell-Petersburg Census Area

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Neil R. Babik
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive Typic Humicryods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Kupreanof
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kupreanof
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed Humic Cryorthod
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1983
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Surface Fragments: 0.05 percent
  • 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
    • 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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    5

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    180

    203

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    O2—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) interior peat; moderate fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots and 5.5 medium and coarse roots; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P01244. many very fine and fine roots; many medium and coarse roots
    A2—8 to 11 centimeters (3.1 to 4.3 inches); dark greenish gray (5GY 4/1) interior loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots and 5.5 medium and coarse roots; 2 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 3 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P01245. many very fine and fine roots; many medium and coarse roots
    B21h—11 to 13 centimeters (4.3 to 5.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) interior loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 2.5 medium and coarse roots; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P01246. common very fine and fine roots; common medium and coarse roots
    B22ir—13 to 28 centimeters (5.1 to 11.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) interior gravelly loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P01247. few very fine and fine roots
    B3ir—28 to 72 centimeters (11.0 to 28.3 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior very gravelly loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 17 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 18 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P01248
    C—72 to 132 centimeters (28.3 to 52.0 inches); olive (5Y 4/3) interior very gravelly loam; massive; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 84P01249