IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Burriscreek
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 07CA605114
  • User Pedon ID: 07CA605114
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 07CA605114
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0238
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 20125
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 41.0936667
  • Std. Longitude: -124.1408889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 8N
  • Range: 1W
  • Section: 11
  • PLSS Details: mortheast quarter, southeast quarter
  • Location Description: Approximately 246 meters (75 feet) west of unnamed spur between CR1800 and 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: Alaina Frazier
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, isotic, isomesic Andic Palehumults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 7114
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Burriscreek (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 20 to 170 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/1/2013
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Burriscreek
  • Classificaton Date - 6/19/2007
  • 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 Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: mixed
  • Geology: Marine Terrace formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/19/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 6246-258
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Plant Association Name: Redwood-Douglas-fir Forest
  • 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

    POMU

    PTAQ

    SESE3

    VAOV2

    Blechnum spicant

    Gaultheria shallon

    Polystichum munitum

    Pteridium aquilinum

    Sequoia sempervirens

    Vaccinium ovatum

    deer fern

    salal

    western swordfern

    western brackenfern

    redwood

    California huckleberry

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    andic soil properties

    0—7

    20—170

    20—50

    —7—

    —150—

    —30—
    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

    6

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    213

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    234

    1650

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    280

    11

    14

    8

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    Oi—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1) broken face, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, dry; slightly decomposed plant material; structureless single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 4.0 very fine roots and 2.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots; 10.0 very fine irregular and 10.0 fine irregular pores; fragments; noneffervescent; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH indicator strip; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 08N01471; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A1—2 to 7 centimeters (0.8 to 2.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face, dry; loam; 22 percent clay; weak very fine granular, and moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 4.0 very fine roots and 2.0 medium roots and 5.0 fine roots; 5.0 very fine tubular and 5.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, pH indicator strip; clear broken boundary. Lab sample # 08N01472; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A2—7 to 20 centimeters (2.8 to 7.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face, light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) broken face, dry; silt loam; 25 percent clay; weak very fine subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderately slow permeability; 2.0 very fine roots and 3.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH indicator strip; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N01473; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    B/A—20 to 34 centimeters (7.9 to 13.4 inches); variegated dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) broken face, dry; silty clay loam; 31 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderately slow permeability; 3.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots and 2.0 coarse roots; 3.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, pH indicator strip; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N01474; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—34 to 50 centimeters (13.4 to 19.7 inches); variegated strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) broken face, reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) broken face, dry; silty clay loam; 31 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderately slow permeability; 3.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots and 1.0 coarse roots; 2.0 very fine irregular and 1.0 fine tubular and 2.0 fine irregular pores; 10 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-38-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 3 percent by volume nonflat subangular very weakly coherent cemented 2-38-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, pH indicator strip; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N01475; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—50 to 85 centimeters (19.7 to 33.5 inches); variegated yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face, brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) broken face, dry; clay loam; 33 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderately slow permeability; 2.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; 1.0 fine tubular and 1.0 fine irregular pores; 2 percent distinct clay films on rock fragments and 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular very weakly coherent cemented 2-38-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-38-75 millimeter mixed fragments; 10 percent krotovinas (volume percent); noneffervescent; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH indicator strip; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 08N01476; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small. Redoximorphic features are relic.
    Bt3—85 to 111 centimeters (33.5 to 43.7 inches); variegated 70 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face and 30 percent brown (7.5YR 4/3) broken face, 70 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) broken face and 30 percent light brown (7.5YR 6/3) broken face, dry; paragravelly clay loam; 34 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderately slow permeability; 2.0 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 2.0 very fine tubular and 1.0 medium irregular and 1.0 fine irregular and 2.0 fine tubular pores; 10 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine distinct irregular yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, iron-manganese masses with sharp boundaries throughout and 2 percent medium distinct irregular yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, iron-manganese masses with sharp boundaries throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-38-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular very weakly coherent cemented 2-38-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, pH indicator strip; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N01477; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small. Redoximorphic features are relic.
    Bt4—111 to 131 centimeters (43.7 to 51.6 inches); variegated pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4) broken face, pale yellow (2.5Y 8/4) broken face, dry; gravelly clay loam; 32 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderately slow permeability; 1.0 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 1.0 very fine irregular pores; 10 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent medium distinct irregular very weakly coherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, iron-manganese masses throughout; 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular very weakly coherent cemented 2-38-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-38-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, pH indicator strip; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 08N01478; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2Bt5—131 to 170 centimeters (51.6 to 66.9 inches); variegated strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) broken face, reddish yellow (7.5YR 7/6) broken face, dry; very gravelly sandy clay loam; 25 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; moderately slow permeability; 1.0 very fine interstitial and 1.0 fine interstitial pores; 25 percent distinct clay films on surfaces along pores and 25 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent medium distinct irregular ferriargillans throughout; 45 percent by volume nonflat rounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-38-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, pH indicator strip. Lab sample # 08N01479; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small