IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Millstreet
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 13CA600399
  • User Pedon ID: 13CA600399
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 13CA600399
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 15N0556
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 79667
  • 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: 40.5848957
  • Std. Longitude: -124.1428865
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Property of Jim O'neill in Fortuna
  • Map Unit: 1009—Hydraquents-Wassents mucky silt loam, strongly saline, 0-3 percent slopes, very frequently flooded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: California
  • County: CA023—Humboldt
  • MLRA: 4B—Coastal Redwood Belt
  • Regional Office: SW—Southwest
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA600—Humboldt County, Central Part, California
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40124-E2—Fortuna, California
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jonathan Hooper
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Oxyaquic Palehumults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 399
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Landscape: alluvial plain
  • Landform: alluvial fan
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: rare flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/9/2013 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: jwh
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - urban and built-up
  • 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

    2GP

    Grass, perennial

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—52

    52—170

    —52—

    —118—

    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

    0

    20

    330

    1245

    300

    12

    13

    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark gray (7.5YR 3/1) crushed, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) crushed, dry; silty clay loam; 28 percent clay; strong medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 4.0 very fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A—13 to 42 centimeters (5.1 to 16.5 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) crushed, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) crushed, dry; silt loam; 26 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 1.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 5.8; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    ABt—42 to 52 centimeters (16.5 to 20.5 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, brown (10YR 4/3) crushed, dry; silt loam; 26 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 5.6; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    Bt1—52 to 85 centimeters (20.5 to 33.5 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) crushed, very pale brown (10YR 7/4) crushed, dry; silty clay; 40 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 10 percent faint clay bridges between sand grains; 10 percent fine distinct irregular brownish yellow (10YR 6/8), moist, iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    Bt2—85 to 102 centimeters (33.5 to 40.2 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) crushed, very pale brown (10YR 7/4) crushed, dry; silty clay loam; 35 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 10 percent faint clay bridges between sand grains; 5 percent fine and 10 percent fine distinct irregular brownish yellow (10YR 6/8), moist, iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    C1—102 to 130 centimeters (40.2 to 51.2 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) crushed, very pale brown (10YR 8/4) crushed, dry; silty clay; 40 percent clay; 10 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) fine distinct irregular mottles; structureless massive; extremely hard, extremely firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 5 percent fine distinct irregular iron depletions in matrix and 10 percent fine distinct irregular brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), moist, iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    C2—130 to 170 centimeters (51.2 to 66.9 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) crushed, very pale brown (10YR 8/4) crushed, dry; silty clay; 45 percent clay; structureless massive; extremely hard, very firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 5 percent fine distinct irregular light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 20 percent fine distinct irregular brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), moist, iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 5.6.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket