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Hydric soils
 

Ship Family Soils
Loamy Euic Terric Cryofibrists

Description:  Thick organic mat over loamy eolian or fluviomarine sediments with sedges and moss found on wet toeslopes and dips on plains.  Strongly acid soils near bluff, grading toward neutral with proximity to the Nushagak Bay.

Vegetation: Sedge with moss understory

Parent Material:  Thick fibric organic mat over silt loam eolian and fluviomarine sediments

Drainage:  Very poorly drained

Slope:  Nearly level linear slopes

Flooding: Frequent flooding hazard  

Photo of Ship soil  Photo of Ship landform

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