IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Volkmar
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 05XX005-02
  • User Pedon ID: S2005AK240004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N0118
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18410
  • 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: 63.9403038
  • Std. Longitude: -145.0552521
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Alaska
  • County: AK240—Southeast Fairbanks Census Area
  • MLRA: 229—Interior Alaska Lowlands
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AK657—Greater Delta Area, Alaska

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, superactive Aquic Eutrocryepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Volkmar
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, superactive Aquic Eutrocryepts
  • Classificaton Date - 6/17/2005
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-silty loess over coarse-silty alluvium over coarse-loamy alluvium and/or sandy and gravelly outwash
  • Landform: outwash plain
  • Flooding: rare flooding
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/17/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 796-52
  • 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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    mottles with chroma 2 or less

    0—16

    16—70

    16—70

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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
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    Ap—0 to 16 centimeters (0.0 to 6.3 inches); fragments.; observed in cut
    Bw—16 to 70 centimeters (6.3 to 27.6 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) silt loam; 2 percent fine distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4); 5 percent medium faint grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2); fragments. Lab sample # 06N00323; observed in cut
    BC—70 to 90 centimeters (27.6 to 35.4 inches); fragments.; observed in cut
    2C—90 to 152 centimeters (35.4 to 59.8 inches); sand and gravel; fragments.; observed in cut