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 Hydric soils
 

Pellernaquq Family Soils
Loamy Euic Terric Cryofibrists

Description:  Thick organic mat (40-100cm) over loess with sedges and moss found in dips on plains.  Very strongly to moderately acid soils.

Vegetation: Sedge with moss understory

Parent Material:  Thick, mossy, fibric organic mat over coarse loamy eolian or alluvial deposits

Drainage:  Very poorly drained

Slope:  Nearly level linear and concave slopes

Flooding: No flooding hazard

  Picture of Pellernaquq soil landscape  Picture of vegetation on Pellernaquq soil 

 Picture of Pellernaquq soil

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