IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): SND
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S03AK240007
  • User Pedon ID: S2003AK240007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S03AK240007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N0268
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16562
  • 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: 63.2594681
  • Std. Longitude: -143.0053711
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: S. Tok Firebreak - Aspen
  • State: Alaska
  • County: AK240—Southeast Fairbanks Census Area

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. L. Ping
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, active, frigid Typic Dystrocryepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - SND
  • Classificaton Date - 8/14/2003
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: outwash plain
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • 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

    ARUV

    COCA13

    LIBO3

    ORSE

    PLSC70

    SALIX

    SHCA

    VAVI

    Arctostaphylos uva-ursi

    Cornus canadensis

    Linnaea borealis

    Orthilia secunda

    Pleurozium schreberi

    Salix

    Shepherdia canadensis

    Vaccinium vitis-idaea

    kinnikinnick

    bunchberry dogwood

    twinflower

    sidebells wintergreen

    Schreber's big red stem moss

    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

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    Oi—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face peat; massive; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N01208
    A—4 to 9 centimeters (1.6 to 3.5 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) broken face, pale brown (10YR 6/3) broken face, dry; silt loam; weak medium granular, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine roots and 21.0 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N01209
    Bw1—9 to 20 centimeters (3.5 to 7.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face loam; strong fine platy structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine roots and 3.0 medium roots and 21.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N01210
    2Bw2—20 to 43 centimeters (7.9 to 16.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face extremely cobbly loamy sand; single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine roots and 21.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N01211
    2BC—43 to 61 centimeters (16.9 to 24.0 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) broken face; 3.0 very fine roots and 3.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N01212
    2C—61 to 75 centimeters (24.0 to 29.5 inches); variegated extremely cobbly; 0.5 fine roots; 80 percent by volume nonflat 75-163-250 millimeter unspecified fragments.