IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Liten
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1989AK170007
  • User Pedon ID: 89AK170007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1989AK170007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 89P0646
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61746
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 61.3833351
  • Std. Longitude: -150.0666656
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Matanuska - Susitna Survey Area; Goose Bay
  • 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, mixed Typic Cryochrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Liten
  • PSC - 25 to 102 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Liten
  • Taxonomic Class - Sandy, 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: hills
  • Landform: dune
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • 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

    POTRT

    Betula papyrifera

    Populus tremula ssp. tremuloides

    paper birch

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

    albic horizon

    spodic horizon

    0—3

    3—20

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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

    7

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    67

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    0

    46

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    17

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    Oe—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) peat; medium roots and fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P03628
    E—3 to 6 centimeters (1.2 to 2.4 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) silt loam; weak medium granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; medium roots and fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P03629
    Bs1—6 to 13 centimeters (2.4 to 5.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) very fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P03630. few medium roots; common very fine and fine roots
    2Bs2—13 to 23 centimeters (5.1 to 9.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) loamy fine sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots and fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P03631. few very fine roots
    2BC1—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine sand; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P03632
    2BC2—36 to 56 centimeters (14.2 to 22.0 inches); 40 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and 60 percent brown (10YR 5/3) fine sand; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P03633
    2C—56 to 143 centimeters (22.0 to 56.3 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) fine sand; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments. Lab sample # 89P03634