IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Savagecreek
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 07CA605110
  • User Pedon ID: 07CA605110
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 07CA605110
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0241
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 20128
  • Print Date: 11/22/2024

    • 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: 41.0865833
  • Std. Longitude: -124.1245833
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 8N
  • Range: 1WE
  • Section: 13
  • PLSS Details: northwest quarter, northwest quarter
  • Location Description: Approximately 23 meters (75 feet) west of CR1000 near junction with CR1700 on Green Diamond property; Humboldt County, CA.
  • Map Unit: 254—Burriscreek-Savagecreek complex, 0 to 15 percent slopes
  • State: California
  • County: CA023—Humboldt
  • MLRA: 4—California Coastal Redwood Belt
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA605—Humboldt and Del Norte Area, California
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41124-B2—Trinidad OE N, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Joe Seney & Alaina Frazier
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Ashy over clayey, glassy over mixed, semiactive, isomesic Aquandic Endoaqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 7110
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Savagecreek
  • PSC - 37 to 87 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/22/2013
  • Classifier - Jonathan Hooper
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Savagecreek
  • Classificaton Date - 8/15/2007
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty eolian deposits over marine deposits
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: upper, dissected marine terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: mixed
  • Geology: Marine Terrace formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/15/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 6246-290
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    BLSP

    GASH

    PICOC

    PTAQ

    RHMA3

    SESE3

    VAOV2

    Blechnum spicant

    Gaultheria shallon

    Pinus contorta var. contorta

    Pteridium aquilinum

    Rhododendron macrophyllum

    Sequoia sempervirens

    Vaccinium ovatum

    deer fern

    salal

    beach pine

    western brackenfern

    Pacific rhododendron

    redwood

    California huckleberry

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

    ochric epipedon

    albic horizon

    argillic horizon

    0—18

    5—37

    37—92

    —18—

    —32—

    —115—
    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

    1

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    220

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    1650

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    280

    11

    14

    8

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    Oi—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1) broken face, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, dry; slightly decomposed plant material; 1 percent clay; structureless single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 8.0 very fine roots and 3.0 medium roots and 5.0 fine roots and 1.0 coarse roots; 10.0 very fine irregular and 2.0 fine irregular pores; fragments; noneffervescent; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH indicator strip; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N01492; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    E—5 to 19 centimeters (2.0 to 7.5 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) broken face, light gray (10YR 7/1) broken face, dry; silt loam; 11 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 2.0 very fine roots and 1.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots; 1.0 very fine irregular and 1.0 fine irregular pores; fragments; noneffervescent; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH indicator strip; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N01493; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Eg—19 to 37 centimeters (7.5 to 14.6 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) broken face, white (10YR 8/1) broken face, dry; silt loam; 23 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; slow permeability; 1.0 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; 2.0 very fine irregular and 2.0 fine irregular pores; 20 percent fine distinct irregular weakly coherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, iron-manganese masses with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, pH indicator strip; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N01494; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Btg1—37 to 55 centimeters (14.6 to 21.7 inches); gray (2.5Y 6/1) broken face, light gray (10YR 7/1) broken face, dry; silty clay loam; 34 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, very firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; slow permeability; 0.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 2.0 very fine irregular and 2.0 fine irregular pores; 3 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 40 percent fine distinct irregular weakly coherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, iron-manganese masses with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH indicator strip; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 08N01495; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Btg2—55 to 71 centimeters (21.7 to 28.0 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) broken face, light gray (10YR 7/1) broken face, dry; silty clay loam; 37 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, very firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; slow permeability; 0.2 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 2.0 very fine irregular and 2.0 fine irregular pores; 5 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 50 percent fine distinct irregular weakly coherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, and yellowish red (5YR 5/8), moist, iron-manganese masses with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, pH indicator strip; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N01496; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Btg3—71 to 92 centimeters (28.0 to 36.2 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) broken face, white (10YR 8/1) broken face, dry; clay loam; 36 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, very firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; slow permeability; 0.1 very fine roots and 0.2 fine roots; 2.0 very fine irregular and 2.0 fine irregular pores; 5 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 75 percent fine distinct irregular weakly coherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, and yellowish red (5YR 5/8), moist, iron-manganese masses with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH indicator strip; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N01497; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2Bg1—92 to 130 centimeters (36.2 to 51.2 inches); light gray (10YR 7/1) broken face, white (10YR 8/1) broken face, dry; clay loam; 31 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, very firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; slow permeability; 0.1 very fine roots and 0.1 fine roots; 20 percent fine distinct irregular weakly coherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, iron-manganese masses with clear boundaries in matrix; 2 percent by volume nonflat rounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-38-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent; slightly acid, pH 6.3, pH indicator strip; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N01498; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2Bg2—130 to 180 centimeters (51.2 to 70.9 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) broken face, light gray (10YR 7/1) broken face, dry; stratified stratified fine sandy loam to silty clay loam; 25 percent clay; structureless massive; hard, very firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; slow permeability; 50 percent fine distinct irregular weakly coherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, iron-manganese masses with clear boundaries in matrix; 1 percent by volume nonflat rounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-38-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 6.0, pH indicator strip; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N01499; wet when described; observed in pit, small
    3Cg—180 to 200 centimeters (70.9 to 78.7 inches); light bluish gray (10B 8/1) broken face, white (N 8/), broken face, dry; fine sandy loam; 12 percent clay; structureless massive; hard, very firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; slow permeability; 2 percent fine distinct irregular weakly coherent cemented light greenish gray (10BG 7/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 5 percent fine distinct irregular weakly coherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, iron-manganese masses with clear boundaries in matrix; 1 percent by volume nonflat rounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-38-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent; slightly acid, pH 6.4, pH indicator strip. Lab sample # 08N01500; wet when described; observed in pit, small