IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Novato
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 03ca08564103
  • User Pedon ID: 03ca08564103
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0091
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19523
  • Print Date: 4/26/2025

    • 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: 37.4552333
  • Std. Longitude: -122.1083250
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5S
  • Range: 2W
  • PLSS Details: unsectionized
  • Location Description: Palo Alto Baylands Nature Preserve, first parking area past gate on road to park headquarters, south past nature sign into marsh, about 50 feet south east in marsh, in pickleweed.
  • Map Unit: 155—Novato clay, 0 to 1 percent slopes, tidally flooded
  • State: California
  • County: CA085—Santa Clara
  • MLRA: 14—Central California Coastal Valleys
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA641—Santa Clara Area, California, Western Part
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37122-D2—Palo Alto, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: William Reed, Joe Takai, Valerie Bullard
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active, mesic Typic Sulfaquents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Novato
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/27/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Novato
  • Classificaton Date - 1/23/2003
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Landscape: estuary
  • Landform: marsh
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Flooding: very frequent flooding for very long periods
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Wet Soil Moisture Duration: 365
  • Geology: Alluvium group .
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/23/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: pickle weed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - marshland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 1
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID Data Collector Total Clay CaCO3 Clay Total Silt Fine Silt Co. Silt Total Sand Total Sand Method VC Sand Co. Sand Med. Sand Fine Sand VF Sand VF Sand Method Texture Class - Field Lab Rubbed Fiber Unrubbed Fiber pH H2O
    cm cm % % % % % % % % % % % % %

    Azg1

    Azg2

    Czg1

    Czg2

    Czg3

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 2
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID pH CaCl2 pH NaF pH Ox Delta pH LL PL PI Atter. Samp. Cond. COLE Pot. Acidity Ca + Mg - Meh 2 K Ca + Mg - Sat. Paste KCl Extract. Acidity Base Sat. - Meh 2 CEC-7 CEC-8.2
    cm cm % % % cm/cm meq/100g cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg mmol(+)/l cmol(+)/kg % cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg

    Azg1

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    Czg1

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 3
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID ECEC Phosphate P NO3-N EC EC Method EC 1:5 by volume CaCO3 Equiv. Equiv. Gypsum Na SAR Gypsum Req. Humic Color Fulvic Color Humic + Fulvic Color Al PI Pyro. Hue PyrO. Value Pyro. Chroma
    cm cm cmol(+)/kg mg/kg mg/kg dS/m dS/m % % mmol(+)/l % L-pcu/g L-pcu/g L-pcu/g %

    Azg1

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    Czg2

    Czg3

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    ec meter, saturated paste

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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
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    Azg1—0 to 9 centimeters (0.0 to 3.5 inches); very dark gray (5Y 3/1) exterior, gray (2.5Y 6/1) exterior, dry; clay; 66 percent clay; massive; hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; slow permeability; 20.0 fine roots; 0.1 fine tubular pores; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary.; wet when described; observed in shovel slice
    Azg2—9 to 29 centimeters (3.5 to 11.4 inches); 60 percent dark greenish gray (5GY 4/1) exterior and 40 percent dark greenish gray (10Y 4/1) exterior, light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) exterior, dry; clay; 65 percent clay; massive; hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; slow permeability; 10.0 medium roots; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary.; wet when described; observed in auger, bucket
    Czg1—29 to 60 centimeters (11.4 to 23.6 inches); greenish black (5G 2.5/1) exterior, greenish gray (10Y 5/1) exterior, dry; clay; 64 percent clay; massive; hard, very friable, very sticky, moderately plastic; slow permeability; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, pH meter; clear smooth boundary.; wet when described; observed in auger, bucket
    Czg2—60 to 100 centimeters (23.6 to 39.4 inches); greenish black (5G 2.5/1) exterior, greenish gray (10Y 6/1) exterior, dry; clay; 65 percent clay; massive; hard, very friable, very sticky, moderately plastic; slow permeability; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.3, pH meter; clear smooth boundary.; wet when described; observed in auger, bucket
    Czg3—100 to 150 centimeters (39.4 to 59.1 inches); dark greenish gray (5G 3/1) exterior, greenish gray (10Y 6/1) exterior, dry; clay; 63 percent clay; massive; hard, very friable, very sticky, moderately plastic; slow permeability; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, pH meter.; wet when described; observed in auger, bucket