Soiltype

 

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Generalized Label Descriptions from the Quaternary Geology, Southern Alberta Map Legend

Base Map Legend ID

SoilType digitizing ID

Pleistocene and Holocene, Undivided

 

 

Eoliean Deposits

1

1

Coarse Sediments (Lacustrine)

2a

2

Fine Sediments (Lacustrine)

2b

3

Coarse Sediments (Fuvial)

3a

4

Fine Sediments (Fluvial)

3b

5

Stream & Slopewash Erosion Deposits

4

6

Pleistocene

 

 

Cryoturbated Eoliean & Fluvial Deposits

5

7

Ice Contact Lacustrine Deposits:  Coarse Sediments

6a

8

Ice Contact Lacustrine Deposits:  Fine Sediments 

6b

9

Ice Contact Fluvial Deposit: Coarse Sediments

7a

10

Ice Contact Fluvial Deposit: Fine Sediments

7b

11

Ice Contact Lacustrine & Fluvial Deposits (Undivided),

8

12

Draped Moraine (Glacial Deposit)

9

13

Stagnation Moraine: undulating topography

10a

14

Stagnation Moraine: hummocky topography (moderate development)

10b

15

Stagnation Moraine: hummocky topography (strong development)

10c

16

Stagnation Moraine: mixed hummocky and moraine plateau topography

10d

17

Stagnation Moraine: Ridged End Moraine

11

18

Stagnation Moraine: Ice Thrust Moraine

12

19

Glacial and Fluvial Deposits (undivided): draped moraine

13a

20

Glacial and Fluvial Deposits (undivided): stagnation moraine

13b

21

Cretaceous, Tertiary, and Pleistocene, Undivided

 

 

Bedrock and Glacial Deposit: draped moraine on bedrock

14a

22

Bedrock and Glacial Deposit: stagnation moraine on bedrock

14b

23

Late Tertiary and Early Pleistocene

 

 

Fluvial Deposit

15

24

Cretaceous and Tertiary, Undivided

 

 

Bedrock

16a

25

unknown

16b

26

Lakes

 

99

Corresponding label ids (field name: soiltype) created for the digitized coverage, based from the original base map legend fields.