D19 HEAL Megapit Soils Description


 

PEDON DESCRIPTION
Print Date: Feb 4 2019 Country:
Description Date: Nov 8 2015 State: Alaska
Describer: S. Castillo County:
Site ID: S2016AK068001_MP MLRA: 228 -- Interior Alaska Mountains
Site Note: Soil Survey Area: AK228 -- Interior Alaska Mountains
1-FAI -- Fairbanks, Alaska
Pedon ID: S2016AK068001_MP Map Unit:
Pedon Note: Quad Name:
Lab Source ID: KSSL Std Latitude: 63.8798000
Lab Pedon #: 17N0530 Std Longitude: -149.2153900
User Transect ID:  
Soil Name as Described/Sampled: Typic Histoturbels  
Classification: Latitude:
Soil Name as Correlated: Longitude:
Classification: Datum:
Pedon Type: UTM Zone:
Pedon Purpose: research site UTM Easting:
Taxon Kind: 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 loess and/or slope alluvium
Local Physiographic Area: Bedrock Kind:
Geomorphic Setting: plain Bedrock Depth:
Upslope Shape: Bedrock Hardness:
Cross Slope Shape: Bedrock Fracture Interval:
Particle Size Control Section: Surface Fragments:
Description origin: NASIS Description database: KSSL
Diagnostic Features: histic epipedon 0 to 31 cm.
cryoturbation 31 to 84 cm.
reduced matrix 31 to 84 cm.
permafrost 50 to 84 cm.

 

 

 

Cont. Site ID: S2016AK068001_MP Pedon ID: S2016AK068001_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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Oi--0 to 9 centimeters (0.0 to 3.5 inches); peat; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 17N02721

Oe--9 to 22 centimeters (3.5 to 8.7 inches); mucky peat; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 17N02722

Oa--22 to 31 centimeters (8.7 to 12.2 inches); muck; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 17N02723

A/Cjj--31 to 50 centimeters (12.2 to 19.7 inches); silt loam, muck; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 17N02724

Cjjf--50 to 84 centimeters (19.7 to 33.1 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; . Lab sample # 17N02725

 

 

 


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