IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Goldstream
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2003AK090006
  • User Pedon ID: S2003AK090006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2003AK090006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N0279
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16834
  • 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: 64.8668518
  • Std. Longitude: -147.8747406
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Sheep Creek Road - Smith Lake
  • State: Alaska
  • County: AK090—Fairbanks North Star Borough

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. L. Ping, E. C. Packee, Tom Malone and Lijie Zhu
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, active, subgelic Ruptic-Histic Aquorthels
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Goldstream
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, mixed, active, subgelic Ruptic-Histic Aquorthels
  • Classificaton Date - 9/26/2003
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: redeposited loess
  • Landscape: hills
  • Microfeature: slightly hummock
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/26/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    CACA4

    EMNI

    LEGR

    PEFRP

    PIMA

    ROAC

    VAUL

    Calamagrostis canadensis

    Empetrum nigrum

    Ledum groenlandicum

    Petasites frigidus var. palmatus

    Picea mariana

    Rosa acicularis

    Vaccinium uliginosum

    bluejoint

    black crowberry

    bog Labrador tea

    arctic sweet coltsfoot

    black spruce

    prickly rose

    bog blueberry

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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

    6

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    161

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    214

    250

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    -3

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    -0.5

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    Oi—0 to 12 centimeters (0.0 to 4.7 inches); peat; 21.0 very fine roots and 21.0 medium roots and 21.0 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N01286
    Oe—12 to 24 centimeters (4.7 to 9.4 inches); peaty muck; 21.0 very fine roots and 3.0 medium roots and 21.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N01287
    Oa—24 to 37 centimeters (9.4 to 14.6 inches); muck; moderate coarse platy structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine roots and 21.0 fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N01288
    B/A—37 to 55 centimeters (14.6 to 21.7 inches); mucky silt loam, silt loam; weak medium platy structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine roots and 21.0 fine roots; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N01289
    Bg—55 to 70 centimeters (21.7 to 27.6 inches); silt loam; moderate thin platy structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N01290
    Bw/Oajjf—70 to 80 centimeters (27.6 to 31.5 inches); mucky silt loam; moderate very thin platy structure; slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N01291
    Cf—80 to 100 centimeters (31.5 to 39.4 inches); silt loam; strong very thin lenticular platy, and strong very thin platy structure; extremely firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments. Lab sample # 04N01292