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Hydric soils
 

Kokwok Family Soils
Coarse-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, Typic Haplocryepts

Description:  Loamy, sandy, and gravelly dark grayish brown soils formed in alluvium with paper birch and white spruce forest.

Vegetation:  Paper birch and white spruce forests with alder and willow understory

Parent Material:  Very deep alluvium on flood plains

Drainage:  Moderately well to well drained

Slope:  Nearly level linear slopes

Flooding: Occasional flooding hazard

Landscape of the Kokwok soils  Profile of the Kokwok soils

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