IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Deneki
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2017AK068671
  • User Pedon ID: S2017AK068671
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2017AK068671
  • User Site Association ID: 1FAI_2017_VEG_DATAENTRYAK638_ALLAK638_F228XY202AK - 2FL - modalNWPL_AlaskaRegion_LEPADAK638_DENEKI_ALL
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 19N0300
  • Print Date: 12/10/2025

    • 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: 63.6487150
  • Std. Longitude: -148.8146750
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Alaska
  • County: AK068—Denali Borough
  • MLRA: 228—Interior Alaska Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AK638—Cantwell Area, Alaska

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal over fragmental, mixed, superactive, nonacid Typic Haplocryods
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Deneki
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal over fragmental, mixed, superactive, nonacid Typic Haplocryods
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 42 to 117 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/29/2018
  • Classifier - J Paul
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: terrace
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Vegplot Text Note(s): QUICK STOP.

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/19/2017 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: J Paul
  • 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

    PIGL

    PIGL

    PIGL

    PIMA

    EMNI

    VAVI

    BEGL

    VAUL

    LEGR

    LEPAD

    GELI2

    LUAR2

    CHAN9

    PEDIC

    DEGL3

    LYAN2

    FEAL

    ANMOA3

    FLCU

    STTO60

    PEAP60

    NEAR60

    CLADO3

    CLST5

    CLST60

    CLRA60

    CELA60

    HYSP70

    PLSC70

    POLYT5

    2MOSS

    CLMI60

    Picea glauca

    Picea glauca

    Picea glauca

    Picea mariana

    Empetrum nigrum

    Vaccinium vitis-idaea

    Betula glandulosa

    Vaccinium uliginosum

    Ledum groenlandicum

    Ledum palustre ssp. decumbens

    Geocaulon lividum

    Lupinus arcticus

    Chamerion angustifolium

    Pedicularis

    Delphinium glaucum

    Lycopodium annotinum

    Festuca altaica

    Anthoxanthum monticola ssp. alpinum

    Flavocetraria cucullata

    Stereocaulon tomentosum

    Peltigera aphthosa

    Nephroma arcticum

    Cladonia

    Cladina stygia

    Cladina stellaris

    Cladina rangiferina

    Cetraria laevigata

    Hylocomium splendens

    Pleurozium schreberi

    Polytrichum

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    Cladina mitis

    white spruce

    white spruce

    white spruce

    black spruce

    black crowberry

    lingonberry

    resin birch

    bog blueberry

    bog Labrador tea

    marsh Labrador tea

    false toadflax

    arctic lupine

    fireweed

    lousewort

    Sierra larkspur

    stiff clubmoss

    Altai fescue

    alpine sweetgrass

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    tomentose snow lichen

    felt lichen

    arctic kidney lichen

    cup lichen

    reindeer lichen

    star reindeer lichen

    greygreen reindeer lichen

    cetraria lichen

    splendid feather moss

    Schreber's big red stem moss

    polytrichum moss

    Moss

    reindeer lichen

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

    folistic epipedon

    lithologic discontinuity

    spodic horizon

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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

    5

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    611.1

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    280

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    2C2—; fragments.
    Oe—0 to 12 centimeters (0.0 to 4.7 inches); very dark brown (7.5YR 2.5/2) broken face moderately decomposed plant material; fragments, by hcl, 1n; moderately acid, pH 6.0, pH meter.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Oa—12 to 17 centimeters (4.7 to 6.7 inches); black (7.5YR 2.5/1) broken face highly decomposed plant material; fragments, by hcl, 1n; moderately acid, pH 5.6, pH meter.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bs—17 to 41 centimeters (6.7 to 16.1 inches); 50 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face and 50 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face fine sandy loam; 60 percent sand; 35 percent silt; 5 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, pH meter. Lab sample # 19N02285; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BC—41 to 52 centimeters (16.1 to 20.5 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) broken face sandy loam; 70 percent sand; 26 percent silt; 4 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 10 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-40-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, pH meter.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C1—52 to 65 centimeters (20.5 to 25.6 inches); variegated extremely gravelly coarse sand; 99 percent sand; 1 percent silt; single grain; loose; 20 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 75-125-250 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 55 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-40-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1, pH meter.; moist when described; observed in pit, small