Tanana (soil)

Tanana (soil)

The Tanama soil is the official state soil of Alaska.

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The Tanama soil consists of shallow, well drained, moderately permeable soils formed in materials weathered from limestone. They are gently sloping to very steep soils on foot slopes and side slopes of limestone hills. Slopes range from 2 to 60 percent. The mean annual precipitation is about 70 inches and the mean annual temperature is about 76 degrees F.

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* [http://ortho.ftw.nrcs.usda.gov/osd/dat/T/TANAMA.html Tanama Soil]

ee also

*List of U.S. state soils


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