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Icknuun soil and landscape

The Icknuun series consists of very deep, very poorly drained soils that formed in organic material interlayered with thin strata of mineral material. Icknuun soils are in depressions on till plains. Slopes range from 0 to 3 percent.

 

TAXONOMIC CLASS: Euic Fluvaquentic Cryohemists

 

USE AND VEGETATION: Wildlife habitat and recreation. The natural vegetation is mainly sedges, sphagnum moss, bog birch, Labrador tea, and other low-growing shrubs and forbs.

 

DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Cook Inlet-Susitna Lowlands. The series is of small extent.

 

For a detailed description, visit:

soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/I/ICKNUUN.html

 

For geographic distribution, visit:

casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/see/#icknuun

 

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Uploaded on February 6, 2011
Taken in January 2007