IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): E22-Maritime scrub-loamy flood plains
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 11SN07001
  • User Pedon ID: S2011SN07001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 11SN07001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N8355
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 72056
  • Print Date: 11/27/2024

    • 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: 60.1894444
  • Std. Longitude: -149.6230556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Exit Glacier SNOTEL-Exit Drainage http://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/nwcc/site?sitenum=1092&state=ak
  • State: Alaska
  • County: AK122—Kenai Peninsula Borough
  • MLRA: 220—Alexander Archipelago-Gulf of Alaska Coast
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AK222—Southern Alaska Coastal Mountains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Shawn Nield
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy-skeletal, mixed, nonacid Typic Cryorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: family
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - E22-Maritime scrub-loamy flood plains
  • Taxonomic Class - Sandy-skeletal, mixed, nonacid Typic Cryorthents
  • Classificaton Date - 11/2/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: mossy organic material over sandy and gravelly alluvium
  • Landform: mid-level flood plain
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Flooding: very rare flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/2/2011 (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

    ALNUS

    POBA2

    PYROL

    Alnus

    Populus balsamifera

    Pyrola

    alder

    balsam poplar

    wintergreen

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    1—4

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    Site Soil Temperature
    Site Obs. Date Depth Sensor Kind Temperature
    cm C

    11/2/2011

    50

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    4
    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

    1

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    116

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    120

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    1092

    Exit Glacier

    SNOTEL
    Oi—0 to 1 centimeters (0.0 to 0.4 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) slightly decomposed plant material; 7.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 5.9; abrupt smooth boundary.
    AC—1 to 4 centimeters (0.4 to 1.6 inches); black (2.5Y 2.5/1) extremely gravelly loamy coarse sand; 89 percent sand; 10 percent silt; 1 percent clay; structureless single grain; nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 very coarse roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 250-?-600 millimeter graywacke fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 76-?-250 millimeter graywacke fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 5-?-75 millimeter graywacke fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-5 millimeter graywacke fragments; noneffervescent; slightly acid, pH 6.5; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N05120
    C1—4 to 42 centimeters (1.6 to 16.5 inches); black (2.5Y 2.5/1) extremely gravelly coarse sand; 92 percent sand; 7 percent silt; 1 percent clay; structureless single grain; nonsticky, nonplastic; 4.0 very fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 250-?-600 millimeter graywacke fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 76-?-250 millimeter graywacke fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-5 millimeter graywacke fragments and 35 percent by volume nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 5-?-75 millimeter graywacke fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.0; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N05121
    C2—42 to 152 centimeters (16.5 to 59.8 inches); black (2.5Y 2.5/1) extremely cobbly coarse sand; 94 percent sand; 5 percent silt; 1 percent clay; structureless single grain; nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 250-?-600 millimeter graywacke fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-5 millimeter graywacke fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 5-?-75 millimeter graywacke fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 76-?-250 millimeter graywacke fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.2. Lab sample # 12N05122