IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fairbanks
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2003AK090008
  • User Pedon ID: S2003AK090008
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2003AK090008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N0278
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16833
  • 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: 64.8666687
  • Std. Longitude: -147.8666687
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Smith Lake uphill from T-Field, west of powerline
  • State: Alaska
  • County: AK090—Fairbanks North Star Borough

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. L. Ping, E. C. Packee, N. Zaman, C. H. Xu and Lijie Zhu
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, active, subgelic Typic Dystrocryepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fairbanks
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, mixed, active, subgelic Typic Dystrocryepts
  • Classificaton Date - 9/6/2003
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess
  • Landscape: hills
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/6/2003 (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

    COCA13

    ORSE

    ROAC

    SHCA

    Cornus canadensis

    Orthilia secunda

    Rosa acicularis

    Shepherdia canadensis

    bunchberry dogwood

    sidebells wintergreen

    prickly rose

    russet buffaloberry

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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

    5

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    146

    250

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    -1.5

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    0.5

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    Oe—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); mucky peat; 3.0 very fine roots and 3.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N01280
    A—8 to 17 centimeters (3.1 to 6.7 inches); silt loam; moderate medium granular, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine roots and 21.0 medium roots and 21.0 fine roots and 21.0 coarse roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N01281
    Bw1—17 to 40 centimeters (6.7 to 15.7 inches); silt loam; weak very thin platy structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 medium roots and 21.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N01282
    Bw2—40 to 62 centimeters (15.7 to 24.4 inches); silt loam; moderate very thin platy structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 medium roots and 21.0 fine roots; 3.0 fine pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N01283
    BC—62 to 100 centimeters (24.4 to 39.4 inches); silt loam; weak very thin platy structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N01284
    C—100 to 150 centimeters (39.4 to 59.1 inches); silt loam; moderate very thin platy structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 31.0 fine roots; 3.0 fine pores; fragments. Lab sample # 04N01285