IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Oakside
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 01CA023605626
  • User Pedon ID: 01CA023605626
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 01CA023605626
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 02N0574
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 14933
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 41.0933333
  • Std. Longitude: -123.6334167
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 8N
  • Range: 5E
  • Section: 8
  • Location Description: Hoopa Indian Reservation, Humboldt County; Big Hill Road, past a large slide, approximately 0.5 miles past corner on the uphill slope about 9 meters.
  • Map Unit: 707—Darkwoods-Firmountain-Oakside complex, 75 to 110 percent slopes
  • State: California
  • County: CA023—Humboldt
  • MLRA: 5—Siskiyou-Trinity Area
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA605—Humboldt and Del Norte Area, California
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41123-A6—Hoopa, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: William Reed & Ricardo Velarde
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, isotic, mesic Lithic Ultic Haploxerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1626
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Oakside
  • PSC - 25 to 47 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/22/2013
  • Classifier - Jonathan Hooper
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Oakside
  • Classificaton Date - 4/12/2001
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium derived from phyllite and/or residuum weathered from phyllite
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank, center third
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated phyllite with 10 to <45
  • Geology: Galice formation.
  • Surface Fragments: 20.00 percent nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2- to 75-millimeter phyllite, 2.00 percent nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 250- to 600-millimeter phyllite, 10.00 percent nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 75- to 250-millimeter phyllite,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/12/2001 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 6250-114
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACMA3

    ARME

    LIDE3

    PSME

    QUCH2

    Acer macrophyllum

    Arbutus menziesii

    Lithocarpus densiflorus

    Pseudotsuga menziesii

    Quercus chrysolepis

    bigleaf maple

    Pacific madrone

    tanoak

    Douglas-fir

    canyon live oak

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    very strongly coherent

    47 - 152

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    lithic contact

    9—47

    24—47

    47—152

    —38—

    —23—

    —105—
    Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    80

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    853

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    195

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    Oi—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) broken face, moist; slightly decomposed plant material; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 very fine roots; 15.0 fine irregular pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N02844; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Oe—4 to 9 centimeters (1.6 to 3.5 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) broken face, moist; moderately decomposed plant material; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 very fine roots; 15.0 fine irregular pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A—9 to 24 centimeters (3.5 to 9.4 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face, moist; very channery silt loam; 18 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 0.5 fine roots; 10.0 fine irregular pores; 50 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-38-75 millimeter phyllite fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N02845; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw—24 to 47 centimeters (9.4 to 18.5 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face, dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face, moist; extremely channery loam; 20 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 1.0 very coarse roots and 0.2 fine roots; 10.0 fine irregular pores; 65 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-38-75 millimeter phyllite fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N02846; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    R—47 to 152 centimeters (18.5 to 59.8 inches); bedrock; structureless massive; very strongly coherent; fragments.; observed in pit, small