IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Nancy
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2006AK002011
  • User Pedon ID: S2006AK002011
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 07N0169
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18739
  • 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: 62.1324997
  • Std. Longitude: -150.0436096
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Susitna Valley High-SNOTEL
  • State: Alaska
  • County: AK170—Matanuska-Susitna Borough
  • MLRA: 224—Cook Inlet Lowlands

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Medial over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed Andic Haplocryods
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 11
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Nancy
  • Taxonomic Class - Medial over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed Andic Haplocryods
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: glaciated plain
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/23/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: Mixed paper birch-white spruce forest
  • 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

    albic horizon

    spodic horizon

    6—9

    9—58

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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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    967

    Susitna Valley High

    SNOTEL
    Oi—0 to 6 centimeters (0.0 to 2.4 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) slightly decomposed plant material; subangular blocky structure; nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.0 medium roots and 0.0 coarse roots; 0 percent by volume flat angular 2-?-150 millimeter unspecified fragments and 0 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments and 0 percent by volume nonflat 76-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 0 percent by volume nonflat 250-?-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 0 percent by volume flat angular 150-?-380 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; very strongly acid, pH 4.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N01055
    E/A—6 to 9 centimeters (2.4 to 3.5 inches); 85 percent pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2) and 15 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) silt loam; subangular blocky structure; nonsticky, nonplastic; 70.0 very fine and fine roots and 20.0 medium roots and 5.0 coarse roots; ; 0 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments and 0 percent by volume nonflat 76-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 0 percent by volume nonflat 250-?-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 0 percent by volume flat angular 2-?-150 millimeter unspecified fragments and 0 percent by volume flat angular 150-?-380 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; very strongly acid, pH 4.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N01056
    Bs/Bhs—9 to 21 centimeters (3.5 to 8.3 inches); 60 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) and 40 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 50.0 very fine and fine roots and 15.0 medium roots and 3.0 coarse roots; 0 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments and 0 percent by volume nonflat 76-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 0 percent by volume nonflat 250-?-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 0 percent by volume flat angular 2-?-150 millimeter unspecified fragments and 0 percent by volume flat angular 150-?-380 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N01057
    Eb/Bsb—21 to 26 centimeters (8.3 to 10.2 inches); 60 percent brown (7.5YR 5/2) and 40 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10.0 very fine and fine roots and 3.0 medium roots and 1.0 coarse roots; 0 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments and 0 percent by volume nonflat 76-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 0 percent by volume nonflat 250-?-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 0 percent by volume flat angular 2-?-150 millimeter unspecified fragments and 0 percent by volume flat angular 150-?-380 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 5.6; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N01058
    Bsb—26 to 58 centimeters (10.2 to 22.8 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.0 very fine and fine roots and 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 coarse roots; 0 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments and 0 percent by volume nonflat 76-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 0 percent by volume nonflat 250-?-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 0 percent by volume flat angular 2-?-150 millimeter unspecified fragments and 0 percent by volume flat angular 150-?-380 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 5.9; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N01059
    2BC—58 to 62 centimeters (22.8 to 24.4 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) gravelly silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.0 medium roots and 0.0 coarse roots; 0 percent by volume nonflat 250-?-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 0 percent by volume flat angular 2-?-150 millimeter unspecified fragments and 0 percent by volume flat angular 150-?-380 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat 76-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; slightly acid, pH 6.1; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N01060
    2C—62 to 152 centimeters (24.4 to 59.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) extremely gravelly sand; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.0 medium roots and 0.0 coarse roots; 0 percent by volume nonflat 250-?-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 0 percent by volume flat angular 2-?-150 millimeter unspecified fragments and 0 percent by volume flat angular 150-?-380 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat 76-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 55 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 6.0. Lab sample # 07N01061