IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Typic Cryofluvents
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2006AK002018
  • User Pedon ID: S2006AK002018
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 07N0176
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18746
  • 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: 65.3672256
  • Std. Longitude: -146.5922241
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Nome Creek-SNOTEL
  • State: Alaska
  • County: AK290—Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area
  • MLRA: 231—Interior Alaska Highlands

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal Typic Cryofluvents
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 18
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Typic Cryofluvents
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal Typic Cryofluvents
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Flooding: occasional flooding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/23/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: Mixed willow-shrub birch scrub
  • 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

    abrupt textural change

    5—22

    47—152

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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

    2

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    260

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    1090

    Upper Nome Creek

    SNOTEL
    Oe/C—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); 80 percent black (10YR 2/1) and 20 percent brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam, moderately decomposed plant material; nonsticky, nonplastic; 50.0 very fine and fine roots and 5.0 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; strongly acid, pH 5.5; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 07N01094
    A/Oa—5 to 22 centimeters (2.0 to 8.7 inches); 85 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3) and 15 percent black (10YR 2/1) silt loam, highly decomposed plant material; weak medium granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 40.0 very fine and fine roots and 2.0 medium roots and 0.0 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 5.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N01095
    C1—22 to 52 centimeters (8.7 to 20.5 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4); massive; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 15.0 very fine and fine roots and 1.0 medium roots and 0.0 coarse roots; 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 and 2 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.4; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N01096
    2C2—52 to 88 centimeters (20.5 to 34.6 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) extremely gravelly coarse sand; 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 60 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.5; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N01097
    2C3—88 to 152 centimeters (34.6 to 59.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/6) extremely cobbly sand; 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 35 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume nonflat 76-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.3. Lab sample # 07N01098