IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mesei
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S80PB935005
  • User Pedon ID: S80PB935005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 80P0199
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47977
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 7.3652722
  • Std. Longitude: 134.5225917
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 585 meters along main Rd. SE of T intersection of main Rd. and Rd. leading to Nekken. Turn NE and go 20 meters along trail
  • MLRA: 175—Kuskokwim Highlands

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: NRB/CWS
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, mixed, euic, isohyperthermic Terric Haplosaprists
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Mesei
  • PSC - 0 to 130 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/30/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mesei
  • Classificaton Date - 3/1/1980
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: organic material and/or alluvium
  • Landscape: island
  • Landform: valley floor
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: talf
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Flooding: frequent flooding for very long periods begining in jan
  • Ponding: frequent ponding for very long periods begining in jan
  • Wet Soil Moisture Duration: 365
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/1/1980 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - close-grown crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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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    3685

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    365

    27

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    0 to 12 centimeters (0.0 to 4.7 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) interior muck; massive; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine roots and 5.5 fine and medium roots; 5.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 80P01019. 30 percent unrubbed fiber content and 0 percent rubbed. 10YR 7/2 color by pyrophosphate test.; many very fine roots; many fine and medium roots
    12 to 40 centimeters (4.7 to 15.7 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior muck; weak coarse angular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine roots and 5.5 fine and medium roots; 5.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P01020. 24 percent unrubbed fiber content and 4 percent rubbed. 10YR 6/3 color by pyrophosphate test.; many very fine roots; many fine and medium roots
    40 to 86 centimeters (15.7 to 33.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior muck; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots; 5.5 very fine and fine tubular and 2.5 fine interstitial pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 80P01021. 29 percent unrubbed fiber content and 1 percent rubbed. 10YR 6/3 color by pyrophosphate test.; many very fine and fine roots
    86 to 150 centimeters (33.9 to 59.1 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) interior silt loam; 20 percent sand; 65 percent silt; 15 percent clay; massive; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 80P01022. Contains about 5 percent by volume plant fibers 1 to 15 mm in diameter.; common very fine roots
    150 to 188 centimeters (59.1 to 74.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1) interior mucky peat; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, hellige-truog. 76 percent unrubbed fiber content and 48 percent rubbed. 10YR 8/1 color by pyrophosphate test.