General Soil Type:

Go9

Region:

G

Map Unit Description:

Forest soils with subsoil accumulations of compounds of iron, aluminum and humus that are moist year-round and formed in the Sitka spruce fog zone (an evenly cool, humid environment); the soils contain amorphous materials and have properties typically associated with weathered volcanic ash

Moisture Regime:

Udic to Xeric

Temperature Regime:

Mesic to Isofrigid

Taxonomic Classification:

Humic Haplorthods, Typic Hapludands

Major Soil Series:

Solduc