D19 BONA Megapit Soils Description


 

PEDON DESCRIPTION
Print Date: Feb 21 2018 Country:
Description Date: Mar 22 2017 State:
Describer: County:
Site ID: S2017AK090001_MP MLRA: 231 -- Interior Alaska Highlands
Site Note: Soil Survey Area: AK642 -- North Star Area, Alaska
Pedon ID: S2017AK090001_MP Map Unit:
Pedon Note: Quad Name:
Lab Source ID: KSSL Std Latitude: 65.1533333
Lab Pedon #: 17N0581 Std Longitude: -147.0519400
User Transect ID:  
Soil Name as Described/Sampled: Saulich  
Classification: Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, subgelic Typic Histoturbels Latitude:
Soil Name as Correlated: Longitude:
Classification: Datum:
Pedon Type: UTM Zone:
Pedon Purpose: research site UTM Easting:
Taxon Kind: series UTM Northing:
Associated Soils:
Physiographic Division: Primary Earth Cover:
Physiographic Province: Secondary Earth Cover:
Physiographic Section: Existing Vegetation:
State Physiographic Area: Parent Material: organic material over silty eolian deposits and/or silty colluvium
Local Physiographic Area: Bedrock Kind:
Geomorphic Setting: None Assigned Bedrock Depth:
Upslope Shape: Bedrock Hardness:
Cross Slope Shape: Bedrock Fracture Interval:
Particle Size Control Section: 25 to 100 cm. Surface Fragments:
Description origin: NASIS Description database: KSSL
Diagnostic Features: histic epipedon 0 to 22 cm.
aquic conditions 10 to 56 cm.
cryoturbation 22 to 38 cm.
permafrost 56 to 198 cm.

 

 

 

Cont. Site ID: S2017AK090001_MP Pedon ID: S2017AK090001_MP
 

 

Slope (%) Elevation (meters) Aspect (deg) MAAT (C) MSAT (C) MWAT (C) MAP (mm) Frost-Free Days Drainage Class Slope Length (meters) Upslope Length (meters)
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Oe--0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); black (7.5YR 2.5/1) rubbed peat; 0 percent unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 17N02991

Oa--10 to 22 centimeters (3.9 to 8.7 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) rubbed mucky peat; 0 percent unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 17N02992

Bg/Oajj--22 to 38 centimeters (8.7 to 15.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face stratified mucky peat to silt loam; 65 percent medium prominent irregular 5YR 3/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; 0 percent unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 17N02993

Cg--38 to 56 centimeters (15.0 to 22.0 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) broken face silt; 10 percent medium prominent irregular 7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; 0 percent unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 17N02994. Horizon contains up to 50% visible ice in lenses

Cgf1--56 to 88 centimeters (22.0 to 34.6 inches); dark gray (2.5Y 4/1) broken face silt loam; 18 percent medium prominent irregular 7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; 0 percent unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 17N02995

Cgf2--88 to 131 centimeters (34.6 to 51.6 inches); dark gray (2.5Y 4/1) broken face silt loam; 20 percent medium prominent irregular 10YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; 0 percent unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 17N02996

Cgf3--131 to 193 centimeters (51.6 to 76.0 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) broken face silt loam; 5 percent medium prominent irregular 10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; 0 percent unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 17N02997

 

 


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