IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): SND
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S03AK240006
  • User Pedon ID: S2003AK240006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S03AK240006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N0267
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16561
  • 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: 63.3563499
  • Std. Longitude: -142.9834595
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Red Fox PSP 79-80-81
  • State: Alaska
  • County: AK240—Southeast Fairbanks Census Area

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. L. Ping
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, active, subgelic Andic Dystrocryepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - SND
  • Classificaton Date - 8/14/2003
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium and/or loess and/or outwash
  • Landform: outwash plain
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/14/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    BETUL

    CACA4

    ORSE

    PIGL

    SALIX

    SHCA

    VAVI

    Betula

    Calamagrostis canadensis

    Orthilia secunda

    Picea glauca

    Salix

    Shepherdia canadensis

    Vaccinium vitis-idaea

    birch

    bluejoint

    sidebells wintergreen

    white spruce

    willow

    russet buffaloberry

    lingonberry

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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

    0

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    494

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    Oi—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); peat; massive; medium and fine and 0.5 coarse pores; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N01202
    A—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); loam; weak medium granular, and weak thin platy, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 21.0 medium and 21.0 fine and 3.0 coarse pores; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N01203
    Bw1—20 to 40 centimeters (7.9 to 15.7 inches); silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and moderate thin platy structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 medium and 3.0 fine pores; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N01204
    Bw2—40 to 50 centimeters (15.7 to 19.7 inches); silty clay loam; moderate thin platy structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 medium and 3.0 fine pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N01205
    BC—50 to 68 centimeters (19.7 to 26.8 inches); sandy loam; massive; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 medium and 0.5 fine pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N01206
    C—68 to 100 centimeters (26.8 to 39.4 inches); very gravelly sand; single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 80 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 04N01207