LOCATION EKILIGAMUT AK
Established Series
SAS/TJR/MPR
02/2022
EKILIGAMUT SERIES
Landscape--shore complex
Landform--tidal marsh depressions
Slope--0 to 2 percent
Parent material--organic material over marine deposits
Mean annual precipitation--about 760 mm
Mean annual air temperature--about 1 degree C
Depth class--very deep
Drainage class--very poorly drained
Soil moisture regime--peraquic
Soil temperature regime--cryic
Soil moisture subclass--typic
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Euic Typic Cryohemists
TYPICAL PEDON: Ekiligamut mucky peat in a concave depression of a tidal flat, on a slope of 0 percent at an elevation of 5 m (The soil was wet throughout the profile when described on July 26, 2013.)
Oe--0 to 110 cm; mucky peat, brown (10YR 5/3) dry, dark brown (10YR 3/3) moist; many very fine and fine roots; moderately acid (pH 5.8); gradual smooth boundary
Oa--110 to 132 cm; muck, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) dry, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) moist; slightly acid (pH 6.1); abrupt smooth boundary
Cg--132 to 150 cm; silt, 90 percent gray (2.5Y 6/1) dry, dark gray (2.5Y 4/1) moist, and 10 percent brown (10YR 5/3) dry, dark brown (10YR 3/3) moist; massive; moderately hard, firm, slightly sticky and slightly plastic; slightly acid (pH 6.2)
TYPE LOCATION: Dillingham Census Area, Alaska, about 6 km north-northeast of the village of Togiak; latitude 59.1156885 degrees north, longitude 160.3297222 degrees west, datum WGS 84 (coordinates determined with a GPS)
RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS:
Mean annual soil temperature--1 to 4 degrees C
Soil moisture control section--saturated all days during the growing season (peraquic moisture regime)
Aquic conditions--throughout all horizons
Other features--reduced matrix
Thickness of hemic soil material--70 to 140 cm
Combined thickness of organic soil layers--130 to 145 cm
Oe horizon
Hue--10YR, 2.5Y
Value--2 to 4 moist, 4 to 6 dry
Chroma--2 to 3 moist
Reaction--5.5 to 7.0
Organic matter content--60 to 100 percent
Rubbed fiber content--17 to 40 percent
Thickness--70 to 140 cm
Oa horizon
Hue--10YR, 2.5Y
Value--2 to 3 moist, 4 or 5 dry
Chroma--2 or 3 moist
Reaction--6.0 to 7.5
Organic matter content--40 to 80 percent
Rubbed fiber content--0 to 17 percent
Sodium pyrophosphate color value and chroma-when chroma is 2, value is 5 or less; when chroma is 3, value is 6 or less
Thickness--5 to 60 cm
Cg horizon
Hue--10YR, 2.5Y, 5Y
Value--3 to 6 moist, 5 to 8 dry
Chroma--1 to 3 moist
Fine-earth texture--silt, very fine sandy loam
Clay content--2 to 10 percent
Reaction--6.0 to 7.5
Electrical conductivity--0 to 4 ds/m
Thickness--more than 5 cm
COMPETING SERIES:
Aukamunuk--no reduced matrix; no mineral soil layers; soil reaction ranges to 6.0
Nolake--no reduced matrix; no mineral soil layers; soil reaction ranges to 6.5
Grayslake--no reduced matrix; no mineral soil layers
Koyuktolik--no reduced matrix; mineral soil layer of loam or sandy loam that has 20 to 45 percent coarse fragments; soil reaction ranges to 6.0
Mariel--no reduced matrix; no mineral soil layers; soil reaction ranges to 6.0
Snakeriver--no reduced matrix; no mineral soil layers; soil reaction ranges to 6.1
Wocus--limnic diatomaceous material at a depth of 140 cm or more
GEOGRAPHIC SETTING:
Elevation--0 to 15 m
Climate--warm, moist summers; cold, moist winters
Mean annual precipitation--760 to 780 mm
Mean annual air temperature--0.9 to 1.7 degrees C
Frost-free period--85 to 140 days
GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS:
Nimgun--no silty marine deposits; soil reaction ranges to 6.5; fens on plains
Kipnuktuli--combined thickness of organic soil layers ranges to less than 130 cm; similar landscape positions
Anchor--histic epipedon; no hemic soil material; similar landscape positions
DRAINAGE AND SATURATED HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY:
Drainage class--very poorly drained
Flooding--very frequent, very brief
Saturation in normal years--at the surface during all months
Saturated hydraulic conductivity (Ksat)--moderately high or high in the organic soil material, moderately high in the Cg horizon
USE AND VEGETATION:
Use--wildlife habitat, recreation, subsistence
Potential natural vegetation--bog rosemary, bog blueberry, water sedge and other sedges, tall cottongrass, red cottongrass, tufted bulrush, purple marshlocks, buckbean, sphagnum mosses
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Ahklun Mountains, Alaska; MLRA 237; small extent
SOIL SURVEY REGIONAL OFFICE (SSRO) RESPONSIBLE: WASILLA, ALASKA
SERIES ESTABLISHED: Togiak National Wildlife Refuge, Dillingham Census Area, Alaska; 2019
REMARKS:
Diagnostic horizons and other features in this pedon
*Control section--zone from 0 to 130 cm
*Surface tier--zone from 0 to 30 cm
*Subsurface tier--zone from 30 to 90 cm
*Bottom tier--zone from 90 to 130 cm
*Hemic soil material--zone from 0 to 110 cm
*Reduced matrix--Cg horizon
*Aquic condition--0 to 150 cm
National Cooperative Soil Survey
U.S.A.