IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kashwitna
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1989AK170005
  • User Pedon ID: 89AK170005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1989AK170005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 89P0644
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61744
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 61.4166679
  • Std. Longitude: -150.0833282
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Matanuska - Susitna Survey Area. James Farm, Pt. McKensie
  • State: Alaska
  • County: AK170—Matanuska-Susitna Borough
  • MLRA: 170—Cook Inlet-Susitna Lowland

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Mark Clark, Joe Moore, and Bob Ahrens
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed Andic Cryorthods
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Kashwitna
  • PSC - 25 to 102 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kashwitna
  • Taxonomic Class - Medial over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed Typic C
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1989
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • 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

    PIMA

    POTRT

    Picea mariana

    Populus tremula ssp. tremuloides

    black spruce

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

    spodic horizon

    albic horizon

    3—20

    20—25

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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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    67

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    180

    46

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    17

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    Oe—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) peat; medium roots and fine roots; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P03611
    E/A—8 to 11 centimeters (3.1 to 4.3 inches); 40 percent very dark gray (5YR 3/1) and 60 percent 7.5YR 4/0 (7.5YR 4/0) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; medium roots and fine roots; fragments; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 89P03612
    Bs1—11 to 16 centimeters (4.3 to 6.3 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/8), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), dry; loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P03613. few medium roots; common very fine and fine roots
    Bs2—16 to 28 centimeters (6.3 to 11.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) and yellowish red (5YR 5/6) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; fragments; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 89P03614. few very fine and fine roots
    Eb—28 to 33 centimeters (11.0 to 13.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak medium granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; fragments; abrupt broken boundary. no sample; few very fine and fine roots
    Bsb—33 to 38 centimeters (13.0 to 15.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P03615. few very fine and fine roots
    BC1—38 to 44 centimeters (15.0 to 17.3 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P03616. few very fine roots
    2BC—44 to 54 centimeters (17.3 to 21.3 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) very gravelly loamy coarse sand; single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P03617. few very fine roots
    2C—54 to 110 centimeters (21.3 to 43.3 inches); extremely gravelly coarse sand; single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments. Lab sample # 89P03618