Imnavait Creek Permanent Vegetation Plots

Walker DA, Lederer ND, and Walker MD. 1987. Permanent vegetation plots: Site factors, soil physical and chemical properties and plant species cover. Department of Energy R4D Program, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO.

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Soil Description, Plot SW-11

	Microsite: Well developed water track, middle of track, midway downslope; soil pit is area of Eriophorum angustifolium Substrate: Organic-rich slope wash over clay-rich till. Vegetation: Wet Salix planifolia ssp. pulchra, Eriophorum angustifolium s.l., Betula nana exilis, Sphagnum sp., low-shrub, sedge tundra Classification: Pergelic Cryaquept Notes: Permafrost at 55 cm. Horizons: Oe 0-5 cm. Very dark reddish brown (5YR 2/2.5) coarse hemic peat; abrupt smooth boundary. Oa 5-10 cm. Very dark brown (7.5YR 2/3) silty clay sapric organic; weak medium platy structure due to compressed vegetation mat (mostly sedge leaves); nonsticky, non plastic (wet); many fine and very fine roots, common medium roots; abrupt smooth boundary. Bw 10-50+ cm. Dull yellowish brown (10YR 4/3) clay with prominent large and medium irregularly-shaped yellowish brown (10YR 5/5) mottles; moderate angular blocky structure; very sticky, very plastic (wet); <2% fine gravel; many fine and very fine roots.
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