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Hydric soils
 

Erneg Family Soils
Sandy, mixed, Typic Dystrocryepts

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

Vegetation:  Ericaceous scrub with small, scattered spruce

Parent Material: Very shallow loamy eolian deposits over sandy glacial outwash on outwash plains 

Drainage:  Well drained

Slope:  Nearly level

Landscape of the Erneg soils   Erneg soil profile

 

           

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