IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fairbanks
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2003AK090010
  • User Pedon ID: S2003AK090010
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2003AK090010
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N0281
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16836
  • Print Date: 6/2/2024

    • 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: 64.8039474
  • Std. Longitude: -148.3311462
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Old Nenana Highway, state forest
  • State: Alaska
  • County: AK090—Fairbanks North Star Borough

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. L. Ping, E. C. Packee, P. Borden, N. Zaman, and C. H. Xu
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, active, subgelic Typic Dystrocryepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 10
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fairbanks
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, mixed, active, subgelic Typic Dystrocryepts
  • Classificaton Date - 10/11/2003
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess
  • Landscape: hills
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/11/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • 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

    COCA13

    LEGR

    ORSE

    PIMA

    ROAC

    SALIX

    VAVI

    Cornus canadensis

    Ledum groenlandicum

    Orthilia secunda

    Picea mariana

    Rosa acicularis

    Salix

    Vaccinium vitis-idaea

    bunchberry dogwood

    bog Labrador tea

    sidebells wintergreen

    black spruce

    prickly rose

    willow

    lingonberry

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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

    4

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    420

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    105

    250

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    -1.5

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    0.5

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    Oi—0 to 12 centimeters (0.0 to 4.7 inches); peat; 21.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots and 21.0 coarse roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N01298
    Oe—12 to 16 centimeters (4.7 to 6.3 inches); mucky peat; 21.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots and 21.0 coarse roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N01299
    B/A—16 to 20 centimeters (6.3 to 7.9 inches); silt loam; weak thin platy structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine roots and 21.0 medium roots and 21.0 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N01300
    Bw1—20 to 50 centimeters (7.9 to 19.7 inches); silt loam; weak thin platy structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N01301
    Bw2—50 to 75 centimeters (19.7 to 29.5 inches); silt loam; weak thin platy structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 fine pores; medium platy iron depletions lining pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N01302
    Bw3—75 to 97 centimeters (29.5 to 38.2 inches); silt loam; weak thin platy structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 3.0 fine pores; medium platy iron depletions lining pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N01303
    BC—97 to 130 centimeters (38.2 to 51.2 inches); silt loam; weak medium platy structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine pores; medium platy iron depletions lining pores; fragments. Lab sample # 04N01304