General Soil Type:

G9i

Region:

G

Map Unit Description:

More deeply-weathered soils than G9; these formed in the Sitka spruce coastal fog zone (an evenly cool, humid climate); the soils contain amorphous materials and have properties typically associated with weathered volcanic ash; some have subsoil accumulations of compounds of iron, aluminum and humus

Moisture Regime:

Udic

Temperature Regime:

Mesic to Isofrigid

Taxonomic Classification:

Aquic Durudands, Humic Haplorthods, Typic Hapludands,

Alic Fulvudands

Major Soil Series:

Hoko-Solduc-Klone