IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): UNNAMED
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1967AK122001
  • User Pedon ID: S1967AK122001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1967AK122001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0661
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 33739
  • Print Date: 4/28/2024

    • 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: 60.2166672
  • Std. Longitude: -149.3666687
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: About 8 miles north of Seward, Alaska (200 feet east of MP 8.6, Seward Highway)
  • State: Alaska
  • County: AK122—Kenai Peninsula Borough

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: K. W. Flach and S. Rieger
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - UNNAMED
  • PSC - 25 to 81 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/6/1967
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/6/1967 (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

    PISI

    TSUGA

    Picea sitchensis

    Tsuga

    Sitka spruce

    hemlock

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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

    42

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    122

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    270

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    O1—0 to 9 centimeters (0.0 to 3.5 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 2/2); 21.0 roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A04930; moist when described;
    O2—9 to 10 centimeters (3.5 to 3.9 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 2/2); 21.0 roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A04931; moist when described;
    A21—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; weak very thin platy structure; very friable; 21.0 roots; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A04932; moist when described;
    A22—20 to 28 centimeters (7.9 to 11.0 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) gravelly silt loam; weak very thin platy structure; very friable; 3.0 roots; fragments; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A04933; moist when described;
    B21H—28 to 30 centimeters (11.0 to 11.8 inches); reddish black (10R 2/1) gravelly silt loam; moderate very fine granular structure; very friable; moderately smeary; 3.0 roots; fragments; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A04934; moist when described;
    B22IR—30 to 38 centimeters (11.8 to 15.0 inches); very dusky red (2.5YR 2/2) gravelly silt loam; weak very fine granular structure; moderately smeary; 0.5 roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A04935; moist when described;
    B23IR—38 to 53 centimeters (15.0 to 20.9 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 2/4) gravelly loam; weak very fine platy structure; moderately smeary; 0.5 roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A04936; moist when described;
    B3—53 to 61 centimeters (20.9 to 24.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 2/2) very gravelly loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; moderately smeary; 0.0 roots; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A04937; moist when described;
    C—61 to 91 centimeters (24.0 to 35.8 inches); dark olive gray (5Y 3/2) very gravelly sandy loam; massive; very firm; 0.0 roots; fragments. Lab sample # 40A04938; moist when described;