Citation:

PANGAEA.619048

Name: Description of soil profile LD02-BS-2 (Table 3-6)
Creator: Christian Wille
Published: 2007-06-26
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Keywords: Arctic Tundra; soil depth; Soil Horizons/Profile

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Keyword(s):

Arctic Tundra; soil depth; Soil Horizons/Profile

Related to:

Grigoriev, Mikhail N; Rachold, Volker; Bolshiyanov, Dimitry Yu; Pfeiffer, Eva-Maria; Schirrmeister, Lutz; Wagner, Dirk; Hubberten, Hans-Wolfgang (2003): Russian-German Cooperation System Laptev Sea 2000: The Expedition LENA 2002. Berichte zur Polar- und Meeresforschung = Reports on Polar and Marine Research, 466, 341 pp, https://doi.org/10.2312/BzPM_0466_2003

Project(s):

Permafrost Research (Periglacial Dynamics) @ AWI (AWI_PerDyn)

Coverage:

Latitude: 72.369900 * Longitude: 126.480700

Date/Time Start: 2002-08-20T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 2002-08-20T00:00:00

Minimum DEPTH, sediment/rock: 0.050 m * Maximum DEPTH, sediment/rock: 0.375 m

Event(s):

LD02-BS-2 * Latitude: 72.369900 * Longitude: 126.480700 * Date/Time: 2002-08-20T00:00:00 * Elevation: 11.8 m * Recovery: 0.5 m * Location: Samoylov Island, Lena Delta, Siberia * Campaign: (Lena2002, Laptev_Sea_2002) * Basis: AWI Arctic Land Expedition * Method/Device: Hand push corer (HSR) * Comment: relief situation: 1. main delta terrace, slope of elevated polygon rim; substrate: shallow moss and sedge peat above fluviatile stratified sands and loams, peat layers

Comment:

Vegetation: mosses total 98%, height 3-4 cm, Hylocomium splendens 80%; vascular plants total 20% height 25 cm, Carex aquatilis 10%, Salix glauca 10%, Dryas octopetala r, Pyrola secunda r, Polygonum viviparum r

Remarks: sediments stratified; wavy horizon boundaries: cryoturbation

Soil Taxonomy: Typic Aquiturbel

World Reference Base for Soil Resources: Turbi-Histic Cryosol (GleyicFluvic)

Russian Classification (Elovskaya): Permafrost Peatish Gley

Parameter(s):

#	Name	Short Name	Unit	Principal Investigator	Method/Device	Comment
1	DEPTH, sediment/rock	Depth sed	m			Geocode
2	Depth, top/min	Depth top	m	Wille, Christian
3	Depth, bottom/max	Depth bot	m	Wille, Christian
4	Soil horizon	Soil hori		Wille, Christian	Visual description
5	Soil composition	Soil comp		Wille, Christian	Visual description
6	Sample ID	Sample ID		Wille, Christian

License:

Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-3.0)

Size:

20 data points

Data

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1 Depth sed [m]	2 Depth top [m]	3 Depth bot [m]	4 Soil hori	5 Soil comp	6 Sample ID
0.050	0.00	0.10	Oi1	organic material, peat, slightly decomposed moss fibers, >30% org. matter, many fine roots, 10YR2/3, inclusions of aeolian sands	7002
0.135	0.10	0.17	Oi2	organic material, peat, slightly decomposed moss fibers, >30% org. matter, many fine roots, 10YR1.7/1, inclusions of aeolian sands, common Carex rhizomes and coarse roots of Salix	7003
0.210	0.17	0.25	Bjjgf1	permafrost, sand, 2-4% org. matter, 10YR3/1, sand layers alternating with slightly decomposed peat layers; at 25cm fossil root horizon; in peat layers high ice content; at 18cm: horizontal crack 0.5-1cm wide, alpha,alpha-dipyridyl reaction positive	7004
0.375	0.25	0.50	Bjjgf2	permafrost, loamy sand, 2-4% org. matter, 10YR2/2, sand layers alternating with very narrow peat layers, along peat layers thin ice layers	7005