LOCATION QUTAL                   AK

Established Series
Rev. DVP/DLM
02/2022

QUTAL SERIES

Depth class: very deep
Drainage class: somewhat poorly
Parent material: ash influenced loess over glacial drift
Landform: depressions and moraines on till plains
Slopes: 0 to 15 percent
Mean annual precipitation: 15 to 35 inches
Mean annual temperature: 33 to 35 degrees F.

TAXONOMIC CLASS: Medial over loamy, amorphic over mixed, superactive Aquandic Haplocryods

TYPICAL PEDON: Qutal silt loam - on a slope of 2 percent under spruce forest at 317 feet elevation. (All colors are for moist soil unless noted)

Oe--0 to 3 inches; dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) moderately decomposed plant material; many fine, medium, and coarse roots; extremely acid (pH 4.2); abrupt wavy boundary. (2 to 6 inches thick)

E--3 to 5 inches; dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky and nonplastic; many fine, medium, and coarse roots; slightly smeary; very strongly acid (pH 4.8); abrupt wavy boundary. (1 to 3 inches thick)

Bs--5 to 10 inches; dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky and nonplastic; many fine, medium, and coarse roots; slightly smeary; strongly acid (pH 5.2); gradual wavy boundary. (2 to 21 inches thick)

Bw--10 to 24 inches; dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky and nonplastic; few fine, medium, and coarse roots; smeary; strongly acid (pH 5.5); abrupt wavy boundary. (4 to 21 inches thick)

2Cg--24 to 48 inches; olive (5Y 5/3) silt loam; massive; friable, nonsticky and nonplastic; 7 percent 2 to 4 mm prominent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) redoximorphic features; 10 percent gravel; strongly acid (pH 5.5); abrupt irregular boundary. (8 to 42 inches thick)

3C1--48 to 59 inches; variegated black to white very gravelly sand; single grain; loose, nonsticky and nonplastic; 50 percent gravel, 5 percent cobble; moderately acid (pH 5.8); clear wavy boundary. (0 to 31 inches thick)

3C2--59 to 80 inches; variegated black to white gravelly sand; single grain; loose, nonsticky and nonplastic; 13 percent gravel; moderately acid (pH 5.9).

TYPE LOCATION: Western Kenai Peninsula Area, Alaska; about 4 1/2 miles NE of Ninilchik; in the SW 1/4 of the NW 1/4, section 33, T. 1 S., R. 13 W; Kenai A-5 SE 1:25,00 quad; Seward Meridian; UTM north 6657678 and UTM east 581858, zone 5.

RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS:

Soil moisture regime: udic
Mean annual soil temperature: about 35 degrees F
Thickness of solum: 14 to 30 inches
Thickness of ash influenced loess: 14 to 30 inches
Depth to glacial drift: 14 to 30 inches

O horizon:
Matrix color: hue of 7.5YR or 10YR; value of 2 to 4; chroma of 2 to 4
Reaction class: extremely acid to strongly acid

E horizon:
Matrix color: hue of 10YR to 2.5Y; value of 3 to 5; chroma of 1 or 2
Texture: silt loam, very fine sandy loam
Coarse fragments: 0 to 2 percent gravel
Reaction class: very strongly acid or strongly acid

Bs horizon:
Matrix color: hue of 5YR or 7.5YR; value of 3 or 4; chroma of 3 or 4
Texture: silt loam, very fine sandy loam
Coarse fragments: 0 to 10 percent gravel
Reaction class: very strongly acid or strongly acid

Bw horizon:
Matrix color: hue of 10YR or 2.5YR; value of 3 to 5; chroma of 3 or 4
Texture: silt loam, very fine sandy loam, fine sandy loam
Coarse fragments: Total coarse fragments 0 to 10 percent, 0 to 10 percent gravel, 0 to 5 percent cobbles
Reaction class: very strongly acid or strongly acid

2Cg horizon:
Matrix color: hue of 2.5Y or 5Y; value of 3 to 5; chroma of 1 or 2
Redoximorphic features: hue of 5YR to 5Y; value of 3 to 5; chroma of 1 to 6
Texture: silt loam, loam, fine sandy loam modified by 0 to 25 percent total coarse fragments, 0 to 20 percent gravel, 0 to 5 percent cobbles
Reaction class: strongly acid or moderately acid

3C horizon:
Matrix color: hue of 2.5y or 5Y; value of 2 to 8; chroma of 1 to 3
Texture: sand, loamy sand modified by 10 to 55 percent total coarse fragments, 10 to 55 percent gravel, 0 to 10 percent cobbles

COMPETING SERIES: There are no competing series in this classification.

GEOGRAPHIC SETTING:
Drainage class: somewhat poorly
Parent material: ash influenced loess over glacial drift
Landform: depressions and moraines on till plains
Slopes: 0 to 15 percent
Mean annual temperature: 33 to 35 degrees F.
Mean annual precipitation: 15 to 35 inches

GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS: These are the Cohoe, Spenard, and Whitsol soils. Cohoe and Whitsol soils are well drained and occur on moraines. Spenard soils are very poorly drained and occur on bogs.

DRAINAGE AND PERMEABILITY: Somewhat poorly drained, low to medium runoff, saturated hydraulic conductivity is high in the solum, moderately high to high in the loamy glacial drift and high to very high in the sandy glacial drift

USE AND VEGETATION: Used for forestry and wildlife habitat. The native vegetation is Lutz spruce, bluejoint grass, willow, and alder.

DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: MLRA 225 Cook Inlet Lowlands, South-central Alaska, The series is of small extent.

SOIL SURVEY REGIONAL OFFICE (SSRO) RESPONSIBLE: WASILLA, ALASKA

SERIES ESTABLISHED: Area, Alaska, 2005

REMARKS: Diagnostic features and horizons recognized in this profile include:
Albic horizon: from 3 to 5 inches.
Spodic horizon: from 5 to 10 inches.
Andic soil properties: from 3 to 24 inches.
Redoximorphic features: from 24 to 48 inches.
Temperature regime: cryic

ADDITIONAL DATA: Soil Characterization sample 01AK122006 from Western Kenai Peninsula Area, Alaska, sampled by SSL Lincoln, NE 07/2001. Soil was sampled as Spenard, somewhat poorly drained. The sampled profile is the typifying pedon for this soil.

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National Cooperative Soil Survey
U.S.A.