IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Deception
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1989AK170008
  • User Pedon ID: 89AK170008
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1989AK170008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 89P0647
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61747
  • 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: 61.5333328
  • Std. Longitude: -149.6166687
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Matanuska - Susitna Survey Area
  • 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: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive Andic Cryorthods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Deception
  • PSC - 25 to 102 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Deception
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed Typic Cryorthod
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1989
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    Betula papyrifera

    Picea glauca

    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

    9

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    133

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    0

    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 3/3) peat; medium roots and fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P03635
    E—8 to 16 centimeters (3.1 to 6.3 inches); 7.5YR 4/0 (7.5YR 4/0) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P03636. few coarse roots; common very fine roots
    Bs—16 to 23 centimeters (6.3 to 9.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) very fine sandy loam; weak medium granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P03637. few medium roots; common very fine roots
    Eb—23 to 28 centimeters (9.1 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak medium granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P03638. few medium roots; common very fine roots
    Bsb1—28 to 31 centimeters (11.0 to 12.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) very fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P03639. common very fine and fine roots
    2Bsb2—31 to 36 centimeters (12.2 to 14.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) gravelly loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots and fine roots; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P03640. few very fine roots
    2BC—36 to 59 centimeters (14.2 to 23.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) very gravelly sandy loam; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots and fine roots; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P03641. few very fine roots
    2C—59 to 110 centimeters (23.2 to 43.3 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) very gravelly sandy loam; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 89P03642