Windy Creek soil series
Soil profile: Windy Creek soils are coarse-silty, mixed, active, subgelic Typic Histoturbels. Windy Creek soils have moderately deep mixed loess and alluvium over permafrost. (Soil Survey of Greater Nenana Area, Alaska; by Dennis Mulligan, Natural Resources Conservation Service)
Depth class: moderately deep
Drainage class: poorly drained
Parent material: loess and alluvium
Landform: alluvial fans
Slopes: 0 to 2 percent
Mean annual precipitation: about 11 inches, 280 mm
Mean annual temperature: about 25 degrees F., -4 degrees C.
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Coarse-silty, mixed, active, acid, subgelic Typic Histoturbels
Particle-size control (section weighted average):
Percent clay in the control section: 5 to 13 percent
Soil moisture regime: aquic
Mean annual soil temperature: 26 degrees F., 50 cm
Thickness of organic materials: 8 to 11 inches, 20 to 28 cm
Texture of the loess and alluvium mantle: silt loam or silt
Texture of the permafrost substratum: permanently frozen material
Percent clay in the loess and alluvium mantle: 5 to 13 percent
Thickness of histic epipedon 8 to 11 inches, 20 to 28 cm
Thickness of redoximorphic concentrations: from 11 to 72 inches, 27 to 183 cm.
Thickness of redoximorphic depletions: from 11 to 72 inches, 27 to 183 cm.
Thickness of cryoturbation and gelic materials: from 11 to 72 inches, 27 to 183 cm.
Depth to Permafrost: from 11 to 38 inches, 28 to 99 cm.
USE AND VEGETATION: Used for recreation and wildlife habitat. The native vegetation includes stunted black spruce forest.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: MLRA 229, Interior Alaska lowlands the series is of limited extent.
For additional information about the survey area, visit:
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For a detailed soil description, visit:
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Windy Creek soil series
Soil profile: Windy Creek soils are coarse-silty, mixed, active, subgelic Typic Histoturbels. Windy Creek soils have moderately deep mixed loess and alluvium over permafrost. (Soil Survey of Greater Nenana Area, Alaska; by Dennis Mulligan, Natural Resources Conservation Service)
Depth class: moderately deep
Drainage class: poorly drained
Parent material: loess and alluvium
Landform: alluvial fans
Slopes: 0 to 2 percent
Mean annual precipitation: about 11 inches, 280 mm
Mean annual temperature: about 25 degrees F., -4 degrees C.
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Coarse-silty, mixed, active, acid, subgelic Typic Histoturbels
Particle-size control (section weighted average):
Percent clay in the control section: 5 to 13 percent
Soil moisture regime: aquic
Mean annual soil temperature: 26 degrees F., 50 cm
Thickness of organic materials: 8 to 11 inches, 20 to 28 cm
Texture of the loess and alluvium mantle: silt loam or silt
Texture of the permafrost substratum: permanently frozen material
Percent clay in the loess and alluvium mantle: 5 to 13 percent
Thickness of histic epipedon 8 to 11 inches, 20 to 28 cm
Thickness of redoximorphic concentrations: from 11 to 72 inches, 27 to 183 cm.
Thickness of redoximorphic depletions: from 11 to 72 inches, 27 to 183 cm.
Thickness of cryoturbation and gelic materials: from 11 to 72 inches, 27 to 183 cm.
Depth to Permafrost: from 11 to 38 inches, 28 to 99 cm.
USE AND VEGETATION: Used for recreation and wildlife habitat. The native vegetation includes stunted black spruce forest.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: MLRA 229, Interior Alaska lowlands the series is of limited extent.
For additional information about the survey area, visit:
www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_MANUSCRIPTS/alaska/AK655/0...
For a detailed soil description, visit:
soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/W/WINDY_CREEK.html
For acreage and geographic distribution, visit: