IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Worswick
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 01CA600008P
  • User Pedon ID: 01CA600008P
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 02N0785
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 14878
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: 40.5902778
  • Std. Longitude: -124.2833333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2N
  • Range: 2W
  • Section: 3
  • PLSS Details: 655 meters west, 335 meters south of the northeast corner
  • Location Description: Ferndale, Meridian Road, 300 feet north on Damion Lane, 500 feet East of Meridian 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: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, nonacid, isomesic Fluvaquentic Endoaquepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Worswick
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/5/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Worswick
  • Classificaton Date - 5/16/2001
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium derived from mixed
  • Landscape: alluvial plain
  • Landform: natural levee
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Flooding: occasional flooding for brief periods begining in dec
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Alluvium formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/16/2001 (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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—18

    46—150

    —18—

    —104—
    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

    1

    —

    —

    5

    —

    270

    1015

    —

    303

    11

    14

    8

    14

    18

    9

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    A—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) broken face, light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) broken face, dry; loam; 20 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 10 percent fine faint dark gray (2.5Y 4/1), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 10 percent fine prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A—18 to 46 centimeters (7.1 to 18.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) broken face, light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) broken face, dry; loam; 20 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 10 percent fine faint dark gray (2.5Y 4/1), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 10 percent fine prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, iron-manganese masses in matrix and 25 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses infused into matrix adjacent to pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BCg1—46 to 120 centimeters (18.1 to 47.2 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) broken face, light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) broken face, dry; stratified stratified fine sandy loam to loam; 15 percent clay; weak massive; hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 10 percent medium prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, iron-manganese masses in matrix and 25 percent medium faint dark gray (2.5Y 4/1), moist, iron depletions in matrix; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, chlorophenol red; gradual wavy boundary.; wet when described; observed in pit, small
    BCg2—120 to 152 centimeters (47.2 to 59.8 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) broken face, light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) broken face, dry; silty clay loam; 30 percent clay; structureless massive; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 15 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses infused into matrix adjacent to pores and 25 percent medium prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses in matrix and 30 percent coarse faint dark gray (2.5Y 4/1), moist, iron depletions in matrix; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, chlorophenol red.; wet when described; observed in pit, small