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Hydric soils
 

Nunachuak Family Soils
Coarse-loamy over sandy or sandy skeletal, mixed, Typic Cryaquents

Description:  Loamy, wet, sandy and gravelly grayish brown soils formed in alluvium with willow and grass.

Vegetation: Willow scrubland with grass understory

Parent Material:  Very deep alluvium on low flood plains

Drainage:  Very poorly drained

Slope:  Nearly level linear slopes

Flooding: Frequent flooding hazard

Landscape of the Nunachuak soil  Landscape of the Nunachuak soil

Nunachuak soil profile

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