IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tankridge
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 05CA601440
  • User Pedon ID: 05CA601440
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 05N0652
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18186
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: 40.1047222
  • Std. Longitude: -123.8916667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Land of Velma Marshall east of Briceland
  • Map Unit: 645—Briceland-Tankridge complex, 15 to 50 percent slopes
  • State: California
  • County: CA023—Humboldt
  • MLRA: 5—Siskiyou-Trinity Area
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA601—Humboldt County, South Part, California
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40123-A8—Briceland, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jonathan W. Hooper
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Ultic Haploxeralfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 440
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Tankridge
  • PSC - 14 to 48 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/20/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tankridge
  • Classificaton Date - 5/5/2005
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium derived from mudstone and/or residuum weathered from mudstone
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank, center third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: moderate weathered mudstone
  • Geology: Coastal Belt group .
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/5/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 6248-142
  • Plant Association Name: rangeland
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Air Temp - 18
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—14

    14—200

    —14—

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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

    20

    —

    —

    205

    —

    220

    2160

    —

    260

    14

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    A—0 to 14 centimeters (0.0 to 5.5 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silt loam; 18 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.4; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—14 to 30 centimeters (5.5 to 11.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silt loam; 26 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine low-continuity tubular pores; 20 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.4; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 283832; patchy - phpvsfiid 283832
    Bt2—30 to 48 centimeters (11.8 to 18.9 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; silt loam; 26 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine low-continuity tubular pores; 20 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume flat subrounded weakly coherent cemented 2-10-75 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.4; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 283833; patchy - phpvsfiid 283833
    CBt—48 to 180 centimeters (18.9 to 70.9 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; extremely paragravelly silt loam; massive; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 5 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 90 percent by volume flat subrounded weakly coherent cemented 2-10-75 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent.; moist when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 283834; patchy - phpvsfiid 283834