APPENDIX = TABLE 6. SOIL SAMPLE ANALYSES FROM STATIONS 
2 AND 3, ST. MATTHEW ISLAND 
(pH determinations made by the U.S. Agricultural Experimental Station, 
Palmer, Alaska; soil colors based on U.S. Soil Conservation Service 
soil color Standards.) 
STATION NO. 2 
Surface vegetation similar to that within quadrats. Surface duff, 
dead plant parts, # to 1 inch deep. Root penetration to 16 inches. 
No effervesence on all samples with 20% hydrochloric acid. All colors 
from moist soil. August 2, 1957. 
Soil beneath surface duff to 11% inches: 
Texture- loam; crumbles readily into soft aggregates ¥8 to 
% inch in diameter, moderately large numbers of 
small stones up to 1 by % inch, usually with round- 
ed edges. 
Color- dark brown to brown, 4/2 on 7.5 YRe 
pH- 5.0 
11% to 174 inches (6% in.): 
Texture- loam; fairly sticky with rounded stones up to l by 
¥% inch, somewhat less numerous than in horizon above, 
crumbles readily to particles ¥8 by %# inch, crumbles 
more crisply than in horizon above. 
Color- yellowish brown, 5/4 on 10 YR. 
pH- 5.2 
Below 174 inches to subsoil: 
Texture- loam; somewhat sticky, feels like dough, in small 
aggregates Y16 inch in diameter, soft, very numer- 
ous stones up to 1% by ¥8 to % inches occasionally 
larger, rounded, more numerous stones than loam. 
Color- yellowish brown, 5/4 on 10 YR. 
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