IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Volkmar
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2002AK174003
  • User Pedon ID: S2002AK174003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 02N1037
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 15014
  • 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: 63.7819443
  • Std. Longitude: -145.0816650
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Alaska
  • County: AK240—Southeast Fairbanks Census Area
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AK606—Salcha-Big Delta Area, Alaska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Patrica Borden, Sarah Masco, C.L. Ping, Lin Zhao, Lijie Zhu
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, subgelic Aquic Dystrocryepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Volkmar
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, subgelic Aquic Dystrocryepts
  • Classificaton Date - 6/25/2002
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess over glaciofluvial deposits
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/25/2002 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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

    2

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    360

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    0

    250

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    -1.5

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    0.5

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    Ap1—0 to 11 centimeters (0.0 to 4.3 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine roots and 21.0 fine roots; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N05132
    B/Ajj—11 to 30 centimeters (4.3 to 11.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) fine sandy loam; moderate medium platy structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 3.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N05133
    Bw—30 to 55 centimeters (11.8 to 21.7 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) fine sandy loam; weak thin lenticular platy structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 3.0 medium roots and 21.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N05134
    Bw/Ab—55 to 60 centimeters (21.7 to 23.6 inches); 60 percent brown (10YR 4/3) and 40 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) fine sandy loam; moderate thin platy structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 3.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N05135
    B/C—60 to 82 centimeters (23.6 to 32.3 inches); 70 percent olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) and 30 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) very fine sandy loam; weak thick lenticular platy structure; 21.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N05136
    C1—82 to 95 centimeters (32.3 to 37.4 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) loamy fine sand; strong medium lenticular platy structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N05137
    C2—95 to 105 centimeters (37.4 to 41.3 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) loamy sand; massive; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N05138
    C3—105 centimeters (41.3 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) sand; single grain; nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments. Lab sample # 02N05139