IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Oceanhouse
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 06CA600182
  • User Pedon ID: 06CA600182
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 06CA600182
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 07N0345
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19038
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 40.4698611
  • Std. Longitude: -124.3688333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 4406—Peaked-Oceanhouse-Forhaux complex, 5 to 30 percent slopes
  • State: California
  • County: CA023—Humboldt
  • MLRA: 4—California Coastal Redwood Belt
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA600—Humboldt County, Central Part, California
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40124-D3—Capetown, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Sue Aszman and Jennifer Berman
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active, mesic Typic Endoaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Oceanhouse (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/29/2013
  • Classifier - Jonathan Hooper
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Oceanhouse
  • Classificaton Date - 8/22/2006
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium derived from sandstone
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank, lower third
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent sandstone, unspecified with <10
  • Geology: Fransiscan group .
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/22/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 6247-175
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    2GA

    2GP

    ORTHO

    MEPU

    JUEF

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    Orthocarpus

    Mentha pulegium

    Juncus effusus

    Grass, annual

    Grass, perennial

    owl's-clover

    pennyroyal

    common rush

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

    aquic conditions

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—200

    0—40

    40—110

    —200—

    —40—

    —70—
    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

    27

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    —

    115

    —

    220

    1520

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    285

    11

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) broken face, dark gray (10YR 4/1) broken face, dry; clay loam; 38 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; moderate excavation difficulty; 15.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 5.0 very fine dendritic tubular and 3.0 very fine irregular pores; 15 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, iron-manganese masses in matrix; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-5-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, pH meter; clear smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    ABt—10 to 40 centimeters (3.9 to 15.7 inches); black (10YR 2/1) broken face, dark gray (10YR 4/1) broken face, dry; clay; 42 percent clay; strong fine subangular blocky, and strong very coarse prismatic structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; moderate excavation difficulty; 7.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 1.0 very fine irregular and 2.0 fine dendritic tubular pores; 50 percent distinct black (10YR 2/1), moist, organoargillans on all faces of peds; 5 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, iron-manganese masses in matrix; 13 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-5-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Btg1—40 to 80 centimeters (15.7 to 31.5 inches); very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1) broken face, dark gray (10YR 4/1) broken face, dry; clay loam; 39 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; slow permeability; high excavation difficulty; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 1.0 very fine irregular and 2.0 fine dendritic tubular pores; 35 percent distinct black (10YR 2/1), moist, organoargillans on all faces of peds; 15 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, iron-manganese masses in matrix; 13 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-5-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Btg2—80 to 110 centimeters (31.5 to 43.3 inches); dark gray (2.5Y 4/1) broken face, light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) broken face, dry; gravelly silty clay; 44 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; slow permeability; high excavation difficulty; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine interstitial and 1.0 very fine dendritic tubular and 2.0 fine irregular pores; 20 percent distinct very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine faint light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6), moist, iron-manganese masses in matrix; 16 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-5-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.3, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Cg1—110 to 150 centimeters (43.3 to 59.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) broken face, light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) broken face, dry; silty clay loam; 39 percent clay; massive; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; moderately slow permeability; very high excavation difficulty; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 1.0 very fine dendritic tubular and 2.0 very fine irregular and 4.0 very fine interstitial pores; 10 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, pressure faces; 15 percent fine distinct light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist, iron-manganese masses in matrix; 1 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses in matrix; 8 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-5-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Cg2—150 to 200 centimeters (59.1 to 78.7 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) broken face, light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) broken face, dry; silty clay loam; 36 percent clay; massive; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; moderately slow permeability; very high excavation difficulty; 1.0 very fine dendritic tubular and 2.0 very fine irregular and 3.0 very fine interstitial pores; 10 percent distinct very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, pressure faces; 15 percent fine distinct light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist, iron-manganese masses in matrix; 1 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses in matrix; 8 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-5-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 6.9, pH meter.; moist when described; observed in pit, small