IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Estelle
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1989AK170006
  • User Pedon ID: 89AK170006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1989AK170006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 89P0645
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61745
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 61.3583336
  • Std. Longitude: -149.9666595
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Matanuska - Susitna Survey Area; Pt. McKenzie
  • State: Alaska
  • County: AK170—Matanuska-Susitna Borough
  • MLRA: 170—Cook Inlet-Susitna Lowland

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Mark H. Clark, Joe Moore, and Bob Ahrens
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Medial over loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive Spodic Vitricryands
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Estelle
  • PSC - 25 to 102 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Estelle
  • Taxonomic Class - Medial over loamy-skeletal, mixed Typic Cryorthod
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1989
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • 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

    CACA4

    Betula papyrifera

    Calamagrostis canadensis

    paper birch

    bluejoint

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

    spodic horizon

    albic horizon

    5—15

    15—18

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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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    70

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    0

    46

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    17

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    O1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) peat; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P03619
    Ae—8 to 13 centimeters (3.1 to 5.1 inches); 30 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and 70 percent very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silt loam; weak very fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; medium roots and fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P03620
    Bs1—13 to 16 centimeters (5.1 to 6.3 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) silt loam; 1 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; weak very fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; medium roots and fine roots; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P03621. few fine distinct 5YR56 mottles
    Bs2—16 to 23 centimeters (6.3 to 9.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P03622. many very fine and fine roots
    Eb—23 to 26 centimeters (9.1 to 10.2 inches); gray (5YR 5/1) and pinkish gray (5YR 6/2) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P03623. common very fine and fine roots
    Bs/Eb—26 to 38 centimeters (10.2 to 15.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and pale brown (10YR 6/3) silt loam; weak medium granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; fragments; clear broken boundary. Lab sample # 89P03624. common very fine and fine roots
    Bsb—38 to 49 centimeters (15.0 to 19.3 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P03625. few very fine and fine roots
    BC—49 to 64 centimeters (19.3 to 25.2 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; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P03626. few very fine and fine roots
    2C—64 to 125 centimeters (25.2 to 49.2 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) very gravelly sandy loam; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments. Lab sample # 89P03627