IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kitkun
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1984AK201004
  • User Pedon ID: 84AK201004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0692
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 56958
  • Print Date: 11/22/2024

    • 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: 55.6749992
  • Std. Longitude: -132.4583282
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 71S
  • Range: 84E
  • Section: 36
  • PLSS Details: NW 1/4 NW 1/4
  • Location Description: Thorne Island Bay.
  • State: Alaska
  • County: AK201—Prince of Wales-Outer Ketchikan Census Area

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: RHH
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Dysic Lithic Cryosaprists
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Kitkun
  • PSC - 0 to 23 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Snd
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1984
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1984 (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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    15

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    180

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    7

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    1Oi—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) crushed weathered bedrock; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P03551. Broken and pressed (10YR 2/1).
    1Oa—8 to 18 centimeters (3.1 to 7.1 inches); black (N 2/0) crushed weathered bedrock; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P03552. Broken (N 2/) and pressed (5YR 2.5/1).
    2C—18 to 23 centimeters (7.1 to 9.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior and grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior very gravelly silt loam; massive; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 60 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P03553
    1R—23 to 33 centimeters (9.1 to 13.0 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments.