Alpine Schist Mountains with Discontinuous Permafrost
Alpine-scrub gravelly schist colluvial slopes
(30%)
White spruce/willow-birch scrub dry slopes
Typic Dystrogelepts
Well drained
Hydric: No
PAWS: 7 cm
mountains
Alpine-sedge-dwarf scrub gravelly schist slopes
(20%)
Black spruce/ericaceous scrub woodland slopes
Typic Historthels
Very poorly drained
Hydric: Yes
PAWS: 20 cm
mountains
saddles
Alpine-scrub mosaic gravelly colluvial schist slopes
(20%)
White spruce/willow-birch scrub dry slopes
Typic Dystrogelepts
Well drained
Hydric: No
PAWS: 6 cm
mountains
ridges / Summit
Subalpine-scrub-meadow mosaic gravelly schist swales
(15%)
Swales
Oxyaquic Eutrocryepts
Somewhat poorly drained
Hydric: No
PAWS: 11 cm
mountains
swales
Alpine-scrub-meadow mosaic gravelly schist swales
(13%)
High elevation scrub drainageways
Humic Eutrogelepts
Somewhat poorly drained
Hydric: No
PAWS: 9 cm
mountains
swales
Alpine-riparian scrub gravelly schist flood plains
(2%)
Gravelly Low Flood Plains, High Elevation
Oxyaquic Gelorthents
Somewhat poorly drained
Hydric: Yes
PAWS: 5 cm
flood plains
channels
mountains
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