IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Russ
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 01CA600009P
  • User Pedon ID: 01CA600009P
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 02N0786
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 14879
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 40.6116667
  • Std. Longitude: -124.2077778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 3N
  • Range: 1W
  • Section: 29
  • PLSS Details: 810 meters west, 490 meters north of the southeast corner
  • Location Description: Humboldt County, California; located about 152 meters west of the south end of the Fernbridge structure.
  • Map Unit: 195—Russ, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • State: California
  • County: CA023—Humboldt
  • MLRA: 4—California Coastal Redwood Belt
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40124-E2—Fortuna, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: David W. Howell, Sue A. Aszman
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, nonacid, mesic Typic Udifluvents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Russ (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/16/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Russ
  • Classificaton Date - 4/12/2001
  • 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
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: occasional flooding for brief periods begining in dec
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Wet Soil Moisture Duration: 8
  • Geology: Alluvium formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/12/2001 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 395-49
  • 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

    0—25

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    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

    —

    —

    6

    —

    1015

    —

    303

    11

    14

    8

    14

    18

    9

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    —

    —

    —

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    Ap—0 to 30 centimeters (0.0 to 11.8 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) broken face, light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) broken face, dry; loam; 49 percent sand; 39 percent silt; 12 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 4.0 very fine roots throughout and 4.0 fine roots throughout; 6.0 very fine irregular and 6.0 fine irregular pores; 1 percent fine prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/6), moist, iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, chlorophenol red; diffuse wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    C1—30 to 36 centimeters (11.8 to 14.2 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) broken face, light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) broken face, dry; fine sandy loam; 14 percent clay; structureless massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately rapid permeability; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 6.0 very fine irregular and 6.0 fine irregular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, chlorophenol red; diffuse wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    C2—36 to 52 centimeters (14.2 to 20.5 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) broken face, light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) broken face, dry; fine sandy loam; 59 percent sand; 34 percent silt; 8 percent clay; structureless massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine dendritic tubular and 2.0 fine dendritic tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, chlorophenol red; abrupt wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    C3—52 to 127 centimeters (20.5 to 50.0 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) broken face, light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) broken face, dry; fine sandy loam; 55 percent sand; 38 percent silt; 7 percent clay; structureless massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine dendritic tubular and 2.0 fine dendritic tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, chlorophenol red; abrupt wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    C4—127 to 153 centimeters (50.0 to 60.2 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) broken face, light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) broken face, dry; stratified stratified loamy fine sand to fine sandy loam; 30 percent sand; 61 percent silt; 10 percent clay; structureless single grain, and structureless massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine dendritic tubular and 2.0 fine dendritic tubular pores; 25 percent fine distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/6), moist, iron-manganese masses in matrix and 25 percent medium faint dark gray (2.5Y 4/1), moist, iron depletions in matrix; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, bromthymol blue.; observed in pit, small