IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tablebluff
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 08CA600049
  • User Pedon ID: 08CA600049
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 08CA600049
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 09N0116
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23932
  • 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: 40.5661111
  • Std. Longitude: -124.3358333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2N
  • Range: 2W
  • Section: 7
  • Location Description: Located about 2 miles west of the city of Ferndale.
  • Map Unit: 230—Hookton-Tablebluff complex, 2 to 9 percent slopes
  • State: California
  • County: CA023—Humboldt
  • MLRA: 4B—Coastal Redwood Belt
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA600—Humboldt County, Central Part, California
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40124-E3—Ferndale, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Sue Aszman, Stewart Wilson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Andic Oxyaquic Humudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 49
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Tablebluff (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/5/2012
  • Classifier - Sue Aszman
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tablebluff
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/2008
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: marine deposits derived from mixed
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: slightly dissected marine terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: mixed
  • Geology: Hookton formation of the Hookton group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 6247-179
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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

    TARAX

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    —

    Taraxacum

    Grass, annual

    Grass, perennial

    dandelion

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

    umbric epipedon

    aquic conditions

    cambic horizon

    0—50

    50—185

    50—185

    —50—

    —135—

    —135—
    Site Soil Temperature
    Site Obs. Date Depth Sensor Kind Temperature
    cm C

    7/1/2008

    50

    —

    18
    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

    8

    —

    —

    347

    —

    1070

    —

    300

    11

    14

    10

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    Ap1—0 to 16 centimeters (0.0 to 6.3 inches); black (10YR 2/1) broken face, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, dry; loam; 18 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; low excavation difficulty; 12.0 very fine roots throughout and 4.0 fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine irregular and 3.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent; slightly acid, pH 6.2, chlorophenol red; clear smooth boundary.; slightly dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Ap2—16 to 29 centimeters (6.3 to 11.4 inches); black (10YR 2/1) broken face, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, dry; loam; 20 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; low excavation difficulty; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 4.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 very fine irregular pores; fragments; noneffervescent; slightly acid, pH 6.2, chlorophenol red; clear smooth boundary.; slightly dry when described; observed in pit, small
    AB—29 to 40 centimeters (11.4 to 15.7 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, dry; loam; 22 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; moderate excavation difficulty; 6.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 4.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 very fine irregular pores; fragments; 10 percent krotovinas (volume percent); noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 6.0, chlorophenol red; clear smooth boundary.; slightly dry when described; observed in auger, bucket
    Bt1—40 to 50 centimeters (15.7 to 19.7 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face, dry; loam; 24 percent clay; moderate very coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; moderate excavation difficulty; 4.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine irregular and 2.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 5.8, chlorophenol red; clear smooth boundary.; slightly moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    Bt2—50 to 74 centimeters (19.7 to 29.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face, light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) broken face, dry; clay loam; 27 percent clay; moderate very coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderately slow permeability; moderate excavation difficulty; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine irregular and 1.0 very fine tubular pores; 10 percent faint dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 7 percent fine faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 5.8, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary.; slightly moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    Bt3—74 to 107 centimeters (29.1 to 42.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face, light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) broken face, dry; clay loam; 28 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderately slow permeability; moderate excavation difficulty; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular and 2.0 very fine irregular pores; 15 percent faint dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 5.8, chlorophenol red; gradual wavy boundary.; slightly moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    Bt4—107 to 125 centimeters (42.1 to 49.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face, pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4) broken face, dry; clay loam; 29 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderately slow permeability; moderate excavation difficulty; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 1.0 very fine irregular and 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 15 percent faint dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent fine faint light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 15 percent fine distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 5.8, chlorophenol red; gradual wavy boundary.; slightly moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    Bt5—125 to 185 centimeters (49.2 to 72.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face, pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4) broken face, dry; clay loam; 30 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; moderately slow permeability; moderate excavation difficulty; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine irregular pores; 15 percent faint dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine faint light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 15 percent fine distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; 10 percent krotovinas (volume percent); noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 5.8, chlorophenol red.; slightly moist when described; observed in auger, bucket