IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Burroin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 03CA023605007
  • User Pedon ID: 03CA023605007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 03CA023605007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 05N0637
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18610
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 41.0802940
  • Std. Longitude: -123.6990146
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9N
  • Range: 4E
  • Section: 21
  • Location Description: Hoopa Tribal Nation
  • Map Unit: 445—Burroin-Redtop complex, 9 to 30 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-B6—Weitchpec, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Bruce Lindsay
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, parasesquic, mesic Xeric Haplohumults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 37
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Burroin
  • PSC - 10 to 60 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/19/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Burroin
  • Classificaton Date - 10/26/2002
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium derived from schist and/or residuum weathered from schist
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: summit of mountain
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountaintop
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent moderate weathered schist, unspecified with <10
  • Geology: South Fork Mountain formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/26/2002 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 6246-62
  • 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

    ARME

    GASH

    LIDE3

    PSME

    Arbutus menziesii

    Gaultheria shallon

    Lithocarpus densiflorus

    Pseudotsuga menziesii

    Pacific madrone

    salal

    tanoak

    Douglas-fir

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

    bedrock, lithic

    strongly coherent

    95 - 200

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—10

    10—95

    95—200

    —10—

    —85—

    —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

    8

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    865

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    120

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    Oi—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); black (10YR 2/1) broken face, very dark gray (10YR 3/1) broken face, dry; slightly decomposed plant material; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.0 very fine roots throughout; 2.0 fine irregular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, chlorophenol red; abrupt smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in cut
    A1—4 to 7 centimeters (1.6 to 2.8 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) broken face, reddish brown (5YR 5/4) broken face, dry; very gravelly clay loam; 27 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10.0 very fine roots and 2.0 medium roots and 5.0 fine roots; 5.0 very fine tubular and 2.0 medium tubular and 5.0 fine tubular pores; 40 percent by volume nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 2-38-75 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, chlorophenol red; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N03696; dry when described; observed in cut
    A2—7 to 10 centimeters (2.8 to 3.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) broken face, yellowish red (5YR 5/6) broken face, dry; very gravelly clay loam; 28 percent clay; strong fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 very fine roots and 2.0 medium roots and 5.0 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 10.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 medium tubular and 2.0 fine tubular pores; 40 percent by volume nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 2-38-75 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N03696; dry when described; observed in cut
    Bt1—10 to 19 centimeters (3.9 to 7.5 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) broken face, yellowish red (5YR 5/8) broken face, dry; clay loam; 31 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 10.0 very fine roots and 10.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 5.0 very fine tubular and 1.0 medium tubular and 5.0 fine tubular and 0.5 coarse tubular pores; 20 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 2-38-75 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N03697; dry when described; observed in cut
    Bt2—19 to 42 centimeters (7.5 to 16.5 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) broken face, reddish yellow (5YR 6/6) broken face, dry; gravelly clay loam; 32 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky, and strong fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 10.0 medium roots and 5.0 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 3.0 medium tubular and 10.0 fine tubular and 0.5 coarse tubular pores; 20 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 20 percent fine spherical strongly coherent cemented iron-manganese nodules in matrix; 20 percent by volume nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 2-38-75 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N03698; dry when described; observed in cut
    Bt3—42 to 85 centimeters (16.5 to 33.5 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) broken face, reddish yellow (7.5YR 7/6) broken face, dry; clay loam; 28 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 10.0 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 5.0 medium tubular and 1.0 fine tubular and 0.5 coarse tubular pores; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent fine spherical strongly coherent cemented iron-manganese nodules in matrix; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 2-38-75 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 05N03699; dry when described; observed in cut
    BCt—85 to 95 centimeters (33.5 to 37.4 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) broken face, yellowish red (5YR 5/6) broken face, dry; extremely gravelly loam; 18 percent clay; weak very fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 0.1 coarse interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat angular strongly coherent cemented 250-425-600 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat angular strongly coherent cemented 75-162-250 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments and 65 percent by volume nonflat angular strongly coherent cemented 2-38-75 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 05N03700; dry when described; observed in cut
    R—95 to 200 centimeters (37.4 to 78.7 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in cut