IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Smokehouse
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 04CA023605021
  • User Pedon ID: 04CA023605021
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 04CA023605021
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 05N0640
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18613
  • 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: 40.7393333
  • Std. Longitude: -123.7611111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 4N
  • Range: 4E
  • Section: 8
  • Location Description: Board Camp Mountain
  • Map Unit: 691—Triboard-Smokehouse-Boardcamp complex, 30 to 50 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: 40123-F7—Mad River Buttes, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Bruce Lindsay
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, frigid Pachic Humixerepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Smokehouse
  • PSC - 29 to 104 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/11/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Smokehouse
  • Classificaton Date - 5/24/2004
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium and residuum derived sandstone
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank, upper third
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/24/2004 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 6250-97
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - conifers
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Air Temp - 14
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ABCO

    CORNU

    RIBES

    THUJA

    Abies concolor

    Cornus

    Ribes

    Thuja

    white fir

    dogwood

    currant

    arborvitae

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

    umbric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    4—64

    64—155

    —60—

    —91—
    Site Soil Temperature
    Site Obs. Date Depth Sensor Kind Temperature
    cm C

    5/24/2004

    50

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    8
    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

    48

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    1360

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    290

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    Oi—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) broken face, black (10YR 2/1) broken face, moist; slightly decomposed plant material; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH indicator strip; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N03714; observed in cut
    A1—4 to 21 centimeters (1.6 to 8.3 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face, moist; very gravelly loam; 24 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to strong very fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.0 very fine roots and 5.0 very coarse roots and 5.0 medium roots and 5.0 fine roots and 5.0 coarse roots; 40.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 fine irregular and 35.0 fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 75-162-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 45 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-38-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, pH indicator strip; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N03715; observed in cut
    A2—21 to 46 centimeters (8.3 to 18.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face, moist; very gravelly loam; 26 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to strong very fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10.0 very fine roots and 5.0 very coarse roots and 3.0 medium roots and 5.0 fine roots and 5.0 coarse roots; 40.0 very fine tubular and 30.0 fine tubular and 2.0 coarse tubular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 75-162-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-38-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, pH indicator strip; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N03716; observed in cut
    Bt1—46 to 64 centimeters (18.1 to 25.2 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) broken face, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, moist; very gravelly clay loam; 28 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 15.0 very fine roots and 5.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots and 2.0 coarse roots; 30.0 very fine tubular and 10.0 fine tubular pores; 40 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 75-162-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-38-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, pH indicator strip; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N03717; observed in cut
    Bt2—64 to 89 centimeters (25.2 to 35.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) broken face, dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/6) broken face, moist; very gravelly clay loam; 27 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 4.0 medium roots and 5.0 fine roots and 3.0 coarse roots; 15.0 medium tubular and 25.0 fine tubular pores; 40 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 75-162-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-38-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, pH indicator strip; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 05N03718; observed in cut
    Bt3—89 to 155 centimeters (35.0 to 61.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) broken face, dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/6) broken face, moist; extremely gravelly loam; 24 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 4.0 medium roots and 2.0 coarse roots; 2.0 medium tubular and 5.0 fine tubular pores; 40 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 75-162-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 60 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-38-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH indicator strip. Lab sample # 05N03719; observed in cut