IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kichatna
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1989AK170004
  • User Pedon ID: 89AK170004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1989AK170004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 89P0643
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61743
  • 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: 61.6333351
  • Std. Longitude: -149.5000000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Matanuska - Susitna Survey Area; University Section, Schrock Road.
  • State: Alaska
  • County: AK170—Matanuska-Susitna Borough
  • MLRA: 170—Cook Inlet-Susitna Lowland

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Mark Clark, Joe Moore, Bob Ahrens
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy-skeletal, mixed Andic Cryorthods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Kichatna
  • PSC - 25 to 102 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kichatna
  • Taxonomic Class - Sandy-skeletal, mixed Typic Cryorthod
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1989
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: terrace—outwash or marine
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1989 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • 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

    BEPA

    PIGL

    POTRT

    Betula papyrifera

    Picea glauca

    Populus tremula ssp. tremuloides

    paper birch

    white spruce

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

    albic horizon

    spodic horizon

    0—8

    8—15

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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

    1

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    166

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    90

    46

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    17

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    Oe—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4); medium roots and fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P03605
    E—8 to 16 centimeters (3.1 to 6.3 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) silt loam; 1 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine distinct mottles; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P03606. few medium roots; common very fine and fine roots; few fine distinct 10YR44 mottles
    Bs—16 to 23 centimeters (6.3 to 9.1 inches); 20 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) and 80 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P03607. common very fine and fine roots
    Eb—23 to 26 centimeters (9.1 to 10.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silt loam; 1 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) fine distinct mottles; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. no sample; few very fine and fine roots; few fine distinct 7.5YR44 mottles
    Bsb—26 to 31 centimeters (10.2 to 12.2 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) silt loam; 1 percent brown (10YR 5/3) fine distinct mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P03608. few very fine roots; few fine distinct 10YR53 mottles
    2BC—31 to 49 centimeters (12.2 to 19.3 inches); 30 percent brown (10YR 4/3) and 70 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) very gravelly loamy sand; single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P03609. common very fine and fine roots
    2C—49 to 110 centimeters (19.3 to 43.3 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) extremely gravelly coarse sand; single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 89P03610