IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Canalschool
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 01CA600014P
  • User Pedon ID: 01CA600014P
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 02N0787
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 14880
  • Print Date: 12/18/2024

    • 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: 40.9072222
  • Std. Longitude: -124.1051111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 6N
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 18
  • PLSS Details: 580 meters south, 370 meters west of the northeast corner
  • Location Description: Humboldt County, Arcata, California; approximately 0.6 miles/1 kilometer west on Upper Bay/Lanphere Road, 0.6 miles/1 kilometer north on Mad River Road, 85 feet/26 meters east.
  • Map Unit: 221—Canalschool, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • State: California
  • County: CA023—Humboldt
  • MLRA: 4—California Coastal Redwood Belt
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40124-E3—Ferndale, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Sue Aszman & Jennifer Berman
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, nonacid, mesic Fluvaquentic Endoaquepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 14
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Canalschool (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/5/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Canalschool
  • Classificaton Date - 8/10/2001
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium derived from mixed
  • Landscape: alluvial plain
  • Landform: low flood-plain step
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: somewhat 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: 8/10/2001 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 433-99
  • 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—26

    26—152

    —26—

    —126—
    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

    —

    —

    8

    —

    1015

    —

    303

    11

    14

    8

    14

    18

    9

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    Ap—0 to 26 centimeters (0.0 to 10.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) broken face, dry; silt loam; 11 percent sand; 68 percent silt; 22 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 5.0 very fine roots throughout and 25.0 very fine roots top of horizon and 5.0 medium roots top of horizon and 5.0 fine roots throughout and 25.0 fine roots top of horizon; 7.0 medium irregular and 7.0 medium dendritic tubular and 7.0 fine dendritic tubular and 7.0 fine irregular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bw—26 to 40 centimeters (10.2 to 15.7 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) broken face, light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) broken face, dry; silt loam; 5 percent sand; 72 percent silt; 23 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 4.0 very fine roots throughout and 4.0 fine roots throughout; 5.0 very fine dendritic tubular and 2.0 medium dendritic tubular and 5.0 fine dendritic tubular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, chlorophenol red; gradual wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bg—40 to 66 centimeters (15.7 to 26.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) broken face, light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) broken face, dry; silt loam; 2 percent sand; 73 percent silt; 25 percent clay; strong coarse subangular blocky, and strong medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 5.0 very fine dendritic tubular and 2.0 medium dendritic tubular and 5.0 fine dendritic tubular pores; 10 percent fine prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, bromthymol blue; gradual wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Ab—66 to 140 centimeters (26.0 to 55.1 inches); very dark gray (5Y 3/1) broken face, gray (5Y 6/1) broken face, dry; silty clay loam; 3 percent sand; 68 percent silt; 29 percent clay; strong coarse subangular blocky, and strong medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine dendritic tubular pores; 25 percent medium prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, bromthymol blue; gradual wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    2Bg—140 to 152 centimeters (55.1 to 59.8 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) broken face, gray (5Y 6/1) broken face, dry; silty clay loam; 2 percent sand; 69 percent silt; 29 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 1.0 very fine irregular pores; 35 percent medium prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; 20 percent krotovinas (lateral area percent); neutral, pH 7.0, bromthymol blue; gradual wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small