IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rainbear
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 05CA601445
  • User Pedon ID: 05CA601445
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 05CA601445
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 05N0656
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18190
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 40.1263889
  • Std. Longitude: -123.9775000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 4S
  • Range: 2E
  • Section: 8
  • Location Description: Joe Wolf Ranch
  • Map Unit: 643—Windynip-Rainbear 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-B8—Ettersburg, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jonathan W. Hooper
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy over fragmental, isotic, thermic Typic Dystroxerepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 445
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Rainbear
  • Classificaton Date - 4/29/2016
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rainbear
  • Classificaton Date - 5/13/2005
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from sandstone
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank, center third
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Yager Formation formation of the Franciscan Complex group.
  • Surface Fragments: 5.00 percent subrounded indurated 2- to 75-millimeter sandstone, unspecified,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/13/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 6246-151
  • Plant Association Name: rangeland
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Air Temp - 22
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    AVENA

    BRBR5

    Avena

    Bromus briziformis

    oat

    rattlesnake brome

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—35

    35—60

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

    5/13/2005

    50

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    17
    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

    22

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    520

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    210

    2160

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    260

    15

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    17

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    A1—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/3) rubbed, dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) rubbed, moist; loam; 16 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 5.0 very fine roots throughout; 3 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly cemented cemented 2-30-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A2—15 to 35 centimeters (5.9 to 13.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) rubbed, dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) rubbed, moist; loam; 17 percent clay; weak medium granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 5.0 very fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly cemented cemented 2-30-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt—35 to 60 centimeters (13.8 to 23.6 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4) rubbed, brown (7.5YR 4/4) rubbed, moist; loam; 17 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 40 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume nonflat angular weakly coherent cemented 75-150-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat angular weakly coherent cemented 2-70-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C—60 to 160 centimeters (23.6 to 63.0 inches); pink (7.5YR 7/4) broken face, reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) broken face, moist; paragravel; 3 percent clay; structureless massive; slightly hard, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; 20 percent by volume nonflat angular weakly coherent cemented 75-150-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 73 percent by volume nonflat angular weakly coherent cemented 2-70-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket