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Hydric soils
 

Tuvapak Family Soils
Sandy-skeletal, mixed, Typic Haplocryepts

Description:  Sandy and gravelly brown soils formed in alluvium with white spruce and paper birch forest.

Vegetation:  White spruce and paper birch forest with willow under story

Parent Material:  Very shallow loess over sandy and gravelly alluvium on low outwash plains

Drainage:  Moderately well drained

Slope:  Nearly level linear slopes

 

Landscape of the Tuvapak soil  Tuvapak soil profile

  

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