IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Steese
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • Local Phase: deep
  • User Site ID: S2018AK090002
  • User Pedon ID: S2018AK090002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 19N0060
  • User Project ID: BONA_019_NEON
  • Project Name: Caribou Creek - Poker Flats Watershed - BONA
  • Print Date: 12/7/2025

    • 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: 65.1634124
  • Std. Longitude: -147.5275269
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Alaska
  • County: AK090—Fairbanks North Star Borough
  • MLRA: 231—Interior Alaska Highlands
  • Regional Office: 1—Portland, OR
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: AK-FAI—Fairbanks, Alaska
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AK642—North Star Area, AlaskaAK231—Interior Alaska Highlands

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Dennis Mulligan
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive Typic Haplocryepts
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Steese
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive Typic Haplocryepts
  • Classificaton Date - 7/18/2018
  • Classifier - Dennis Mulligan
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • RaCA Site ID - BONA_002
  • DSP Plot ID - SW
  • Plot Baseline Azimuth - 18
  • Plot Baseline Length - 6
  • Plot Width - 40
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - center of pit
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Dennis Mulligan

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/18/2018 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Dennis Mulligan
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • 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

    0—16

    16—33

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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

    16

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    496

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    193

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    Oe—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; 5.0 very fine roots and 4.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots and 6.0 coarse roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 19N00325
    A—5 to 16 centimeters (2.0 to 6.3 inches); very dark brown (7.5YR 2.5/2) broken face silt loam; 6 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 3.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots and 2.0 coarse roots; 10 percent by volume flat angular strongly coherent cemented 2-75-150 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 19N00326
    Bw—16 to 33 centimeters (6.3 to 13.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face channery silt loam; 6 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; 20 percent by volume flat angular strongly coherent cemented 2-75-150 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 19N00327
    C—33 to 110 centimeters (13.0 to 43.3 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) broken face channery silt loam; 6 percent clay; structureless massive; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1.0 medium roots; 25 percent by volume flat angular strongly coherent cemented 2-75-150 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method. Lab sample # 19N00328