Happy Valley Permanent Vegetation Plots

Walker, D.A., Auerbach, N.A., Nettleton, T.K., Gallant, A., Murphy, S.M. 1997. Happy Valley Permanent Vegetation Plots: Site factors, physical and chemical soil properties, plant species cover, photographs, soil descriptions, and ordination. Arctic System Science Flux Study, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO.

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Field Description of Soil, Plot HV-16

Plot Number:	HV-16
Location:	Rocky floodplain of Sag. river, north of access road, 2 km south of Happy Valley camp
Description by:	A. Gallant
Sample Date:	7/19/94
Sample Time:
Classification:
Parent Material:	Active alluvial sands and gravels
Geomorphic Surface:	stony surface
Elevation:	1000 ft
Slope:	0°
Aspect:	Flat
Vegetation:	Dry Castilleja caudata, Hedysarum alpinum, Salix alaxensis, forb tundra
Horizon:	Description:
C	Sample S-108
	Very dark gray-brown (2.5 YR 3/2). Surface to unknown depth is sands, gravels and cobbles up to 30 cm in diameter. Sample taken of surface sands.