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Hydric soils
 

Muklung Family Soils
Sandy-skeletal, mixed, Typic Haplocryods

Description:  Sandy and gravelly brown soils formed in glacial outwash with ericaceous scrub.

Vegetation:  Ericaceous scrubland with alder, moss and lichen understory

Parent Material: Very shallow silt loam eolian deposits over sandy and gravelly glacial outwash on outwash plains

Drainage:  Moderately well to well drained

Slope:  Nearly level linear slopes

 

Landscape of the Muklung family soils      Profile of the Muklung Family Soils           

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