IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Loleta
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 88CA600002
  • User Pedon ID: 01CA600005P
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 02N0774
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 14867
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 40.5783333
  • Std. Longitude: -124.3333333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2N
  • Range: 2W
  • Section: 6
  • PLSS Details: 137 meters north, 213 meters west of the southeast corner
  • Location Description: Humboldt County, California, about 5.6 kilometers west of Ferndale. Centerville Road 2.4 kilometers west of Russ Lane, to the intersection of Centerville and Poole Roads. 91 meters northeast from northeast corner of barn on north side of road.
  • State: California
  • County: CA023—Humboldt
  • MLRA: 4—California Coastal Redwood Belt
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40124-E3—Ferndale, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jennifer Berman & Sue Aszman
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, isomesic Fluvaquentic Endoaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Loleta
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/6/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Loleta
  • Classificaton Date - 4/11/2001
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium derived from mixed
  • Landscape: alluvial plain
  • Landform: alluvial fan
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Alluvium formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/11/2001 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 395-143
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    umbric epipedon

    aquic conditions

    cambic horizon

    0—38

    20—150

    38—61

    —38—

    —130—

    —23—
    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

    2

    —

    —

    6

    —

    45

    1015

    —

    303

    11

    14

    8

    14

    18

    9

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    Ap1—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) broken face, grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) broken face, dry; silty clay loam; 27 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately slow permeability; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, phenol red; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Ap2—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) broken face, light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) broken face, dry; silty clay loam; 27 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately slow permeability; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 10 percent fine prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bg—38 to 61 centimeters (15.0 to 24.0 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) broken face, light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) broken face, dry; loam; 25 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 25 percent fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, chlorophenol red; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BCg1—61 to 127 centimeters (24.0 to 50.0 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) broken face, light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) broken face, dry; loam; 25 percent clay; structureless massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 25 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in push tube
    BCg2—127 to 150 centimeters (50.0 to 59.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) broken face sandy loam; 5 percent clay; structureless massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 35 percent coarse prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, chlorophenol red.; moist when described; observed in push tube