Reference soil Greenland 05: Cryosol

GL005

Cryosols typically occur in arctic and mountainous regions where permanently frozen subsoil or "permafrost" is found.

Characteristics

Soils having one or more cryic horizons (horizon with evidence of being perennially frozen) within 100 cm from the soil surface.

Distribution of Cryosols (rough estimation supplied by soilgrids)

WRB 2006

WRB 1998

Turbic- Cryosol (Arenic)

Dystric- Arenosol

80- cm

cryic horizon

FAO-UNESCO-ISRIC 1988

FAO-UNESCO-ISRIC 1974

Dystri-Haplic Arenosol gelundic

Cambic Arenosol

0-8 cm

ochric A horizon

0-8 cm

ochric A horizon

Other classification

USDA-SCS (1975)

Cryumbrept

Kind 1 (parent material) ; Parker (eds), 1984	granite
Mode of accumulation or deposition of parent material	residual material
Remarks on Parent Materials	charnocite
Texture of parent material	sandy
Texture of parent material (second entry)	sandy
General characterization of the status of weathering of solid rock	slightly

Land use or vegetation in the immediate vicinity of the site	(semi-)natural vegetation
Remarks on Land Use / Vegetation	VEGETATION: Pediculari-Vaccinietum
Major vegetation type; Guidelines for soil description - Fourth edition (FAO, Rome, 2006)	tundra

Physiographic Unit	solifluction terrace
Physiographic position of the site	lower slope
Regional landform; McDonald, R.C., Isbell, R.F. et all, 1984; Australian soil and land survey Field Handbook, Inkata Press, Melbourne.	piedmont
Slope	25%
Slope Aspect	north-east
Form of the slope surrounding the site	concave
Topography; Guidelines for soil description - Fourth edition (FAO, Rome, 2006)	hilly

Evidence of alkali ; Soil Survey Manual USDA, 1951	non-alkaline
Evidence of salt; Soil Survey Manual USDA, 1951	non-saline

C 8-11 cm	coarse sand gravellymany fragments,
2Ah 11-26 cm	Description sandfew fragments,
2C 26-36 cm	dark brown (7.5YR 3/4, moist)many fragments,
3Ah 36-60 cm	dark brown (7.5YR 3/2, moist)few fragments,
3Ah 36-60 cm	many fragments
3Ah 36-60 cm	few fragments
4C 80- cm	stonesdominant fragments,