IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kachemak
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1987AK122004
  • User Pedon ID: 87AK122004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1987AK122004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0783
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60078
  • Print Date: 11/27/2024

    • 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: 59.7166672
  • Std. Longitude: -151.5166626
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Other vegetation: sambucus sp
  • State: Alaska
  • County: AK122—Kenai Peninsula Borough

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Ping, Witty, VanPatten, Kimble, Alexander, Moore
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Medial over loamy, glassy Typic Fulvicryands
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Kachemak
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kachemak
  • Taxonomic Class - Medial over loamy, mixed Typic Cryohumod
  • Taxon Kind - variant
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1987
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1987 (actual site observation date)
  • Microrelief Elevation: 10
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    CACA4

    EPAN

    Calamagrostis canadensis

    Ephedra antisyphilitica

    bluejoint

    clapweed

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    spodic horizon

    7—31

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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

    18

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    345

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    90

    70

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    2.2

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    3

    4.5

    0

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    1Oe—0 to 7 centimeters (0.0 to 2.8 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) interior hemic material; 5.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P04264; very moist when described;. few coarse roots; common to many very fine and fine roots
    1Bs—7 to 15 centimeters (2.8 to 5.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) interior silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium and coarse roots; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P04265; very moist when described;. few medium and coarse roots; many very fine and fine roots
    1Ab—15 to 21 centimeters (5.9 to 8.3 inches); black (10YR 2/1) interior silt loam; weak medium granular structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium and coarse roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P04266; very moist when described;. Both above and below thin (less than 1 cm), discontinuous E horizons. Maybe a Bh horizon rather than Ab but has some uncoated fine sand grains.; few medium and coarse roots; many very fine and fine roots
    1Bbs—21 to 31 centimeters (8.3 to 12.2 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) interior silt loam; weak medium granular structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P04267; very moist when described;. many very fine and fine roots
    1Bc1—31 to 41 centimeters (12.2 to 16.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) interior silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P04268; very moist when described;. few medium roots; many very fine and fine roots
    1Bc2—41 to 57 centimeters (16.1 to 22.4 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P04269; very moist when described;. few medium roots; many very fine and fine roots
    1C1—57 to 76 centimeters (22.4 to 29.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior silt loam; massive, and weak medium subangular blocky; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P04270; very moist when described;. common very fine and fine roots
    2C2—76 to 110 centimeters (29.9 to 43.3 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior silt loam; massive, and weak coarse angular blocky; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 87P04271; very moist when described;. Estimate 20% clay.; few very fine roots throughout