IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Happy
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 04SP005
  • User Pedon ID: S2004AK090001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N0968
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17577
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 64.8058853
  • Std. Longitude: -148.4186096
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Alaska
  • County: AK090—Fairbanks North Star Borough
  • MLRA: 231—Interior Alaska Highlands
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AK655—Greater Nenana Area, Alaska

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, subgelic Fluvaquentic Aquorthels
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Happy
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, subgelic Fluvaquentic Aquorthels
  • PSC - 31 to 106 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/15/2004
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/15/2004 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    permafrost

    6—76

    76—120

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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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    Oe—0 to 6 centimeters (0.0 to 2.4 inches); very dark brown (7.5YR 2.5/2) moderately decomposed plant material; 21.0 very fine and fine roots and 21.0 medium roots and 21.0 coarse roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N05323; moist when described;
    C/O—6 to 13 centimeters (2.4 to 5.1 inches); 70 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) and 30 percent black (10YR 2/1) silt loam; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots and 21.0 medium roots and 21.0 coarse roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N05324; moist when described;
    C1—13 to 25 centimeters (5.1 to 9.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) very fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 3.0 medium roots; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N05325; moist when described;
    C2—25 to 51 centimeters (9.8 to 20.1 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) very fine sandy loam; weak medium platy structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N05326; moist when described;
    C/O'—51 to 76 centimeters (20.1 to 29.9 inches); 60 percent olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) and 40 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3) very fine sandy loam; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N05327; moist when described;
    Cf—76 to 120 centimeters (29.9 to 47.2 inches); gray (2.5Y 5/1) very fine sandy loam; fragments. Lab sample # 04N05328; moist when described;