LOCATION STRAWBERRY              AK

Established Series
IRD. NDP/SCD
02/2022

STRAWBERRY SERIES

Landscape--shore complexes
Landform--beach plains
Slope--0 to 5 percent
Parent material--marine deposits
Mean annual precipitation--about 1400 mm
Mean annual air temperature--about 5 degrees C
Depth class--very deep
Drainage class--somewhat poorly drained
Soil moisture regime--udic
Soil temperature regime--cryic
Soil moisture subclass--aquic

TAXONOMIC CLASS: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, calcareous Aquic Cryorthents

TYPICAL PEDON: Strawberry sandy loam on an herbaceous estuarine beach plain, on a slope of 2 percent at an elevation of 1 m (When described on June 23, 2014, the soil was moist from the surface to a depth of 49 cm and wet from a depth of 49 to 150 cm.)

Oe--0 to 3 cm; moderately decomposed plant material; strongly acid (pH 5.5); abrupt smooth boundary

C--3 to 49 cm; sandy loam, very pale brown (10YR 7/3) dry, brown (10YR 5/3) moist; 15 percent fine dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) mottles; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky and nonplastic; common very fine and coarse and many fine and medium roots throughout; common very fine and fine irregular pores; noneffervescent (HCL, 1N); slightly alkaline (pH 7.7); gradual smooth boundary

Cg--49 to 150 cm; fine sandy loam, light gray (5Y 7/2) dry, olive gray (5Y 5/2) moist; massive; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky and nonplastic; common fine and medium roots in upper part; few very fine and fine irregular pores; 30 percent medium masses of reduced iron, dark gray (10YR 4/1) moist; slightly effervescent (HCL, 1N); moderately alkaline (pH 7.9)

TYPE LOCATION: Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve-Gustavus Area, Alaska; Hoonah-Angoon Census Area; latitude 58.3861680, longitude -135.8564760, datum WGS84 (coordinates determined by a GPS unit)

RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS:
Mean annual soil temperature--1 to 7 degrees C
Soil moisture control section--dry less than 45 consecutive days in June through October (udic)
Depth to redoximorphic depletions--25 to 50 cm (somewhat poorly drained)
Other features--free carbonates
Clay content in particle-size control section--2 to 7 percent

Oe horizon
Thickness--0 to 10 cm

C horizon
Hue--10YR to 5Y moist or dry
Value--4 or 5 moist, 6 or 7 dry
Chroma--3 to 6 moist or dry
Fine-earth texture--sandy loam, fine sandy loam, loamy sand
Clay content--2 to 7 percent
Reaction (pH)--6.6 to 8.1
Thickness--10 to 55 cm

Cg horizon
Hue--10YR to 5Y moist or dry
Value--3 to 5 moist, 5 to 7 dry
Chroma--1 or 2 moist or dry
Fine-earth texture--sandy loam, fine sandy loam
Clay content--2 to 7 percent
Reaction (pH)--6.8 to 8.2
Effervescence--very slightly effervescent, slightly effervescent
Thickness--75 to 110 cm

COMPETING SERIES:
Cenotaph--aquic conditions within 25 cm of soil surface (poorly drained)

GEOGRAPHIC SETTING:
Elevation--0 to 10 m
Climate--cool, moist summers; mild, wet winters
Mean annual precipitation--850 to 1850 mm
Mean annual air temperature--0 to 9 degrees C
Frost-free period--90 to 154 days

GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS:
Beartrack--aquic conditions within 25 cm of soil surface (poorly drained); on similar landforms
Fingerock--50 to 100 cm (moderately well drained) to aquic conditions; on similar landforms

DRAINAGE AND SATURATED HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY:
Drainage class--somewhat poorly drained
Depth to saturation in normal years--more than 49 cm year round
Flooding--none
Ponding--none
Saturated hydraulic conductivity (Ksat)--moderately high or high in C and Cg horizons

USE AND VEGETATION:
Use--wildlife habitat, recreation, subsistence
Potential native vegetation--common yarrow, seacoast angelica, silverweed cinquefoil, Lyngbye's sedge, red fescue, common cowparsnip, American dunegrass, Nootka lupine, marsh grass of Parnassus, goose tongue, Schreber's big red stem moss, little yellow rattle, goose neck moss, Barclay's willow, undergreen willow

DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Alexander Archipelago-Gulf of Alaska Coast, Alaska; MLRA 220; small extent

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

SERIES ESTABLISHED: Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve-Gustavus Area, Alaska.

REMARKS:
Diagnostic horizons and other features recognized in this pedon
*Ochric epipedon
*Aquic conditions--zone from 49 to 150 cm
*Redoximorphic depletions that have chroma of 2 or less--zone from 49 to 150 cm
*Free carbonates--zone from 49 to 150 cm
*Particle-size control section--zone from 28 to 103 cm

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National Cooperative Soil Survey
U.S.A.