IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sites
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1958-CA-12-006x
  • User Pedon ID: 58-CA-12-006x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD5812006
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41346
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 40.7709427
  • Std. Longitude: -123.7819595
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5N
  • Range: 3E
  • Section: 36
  • PLSS Details: NE/4, SE/4
  • State: California
  • County: CA023—Humboldt
  • MLRA: 4B—Coastal Redwood Belt
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA605—Humboldt and Del Norte Area, California
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40123-G7—Maple Creek, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: ENG
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, parasesquic, mesic Xeric Haplohumults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sites
  • PSC - 53 to 103 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/11/2018
  • Classifier - Andrew Brown
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - SITES
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey, oxidic, mesic Xeric Haplohumults
  • Classificaton Date - 2/11/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: RES
  • Bedrock: schist, unspecified
  • Geology: Kerr Ranch Schist formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/11/2009 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, savanna
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

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    122 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—53

    53—122

    122—

    —53—

    —69—

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    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

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    1219

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    9.4

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    Oi—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); fragments. Lab sample # UCD01721
    A—15 to 53 centimeters (5.9 to 20.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), 7.5YR 6/ (7.5YR 6/),, dry; gravelly clay loam; 30 percent sand; 34 percent silt; 36 percent clay; weak medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # UCD01722
    BAt—53 to 76 centimeters (20.9 to 29.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6), reddish yellow (5YR 6/6), dry; gravelly clay; 24 percent sand; 31 percent silt; 46 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # UCD01723
    Bt1—76 to 99 centimeters (29.9 to 39.0 inches); red (2.5YR 5/8), reddish yellow (5YR 6/8), dry; gravelly clay; 22 percent sand; 30 percent silt; 48 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky parts to massive; friable, moderately sticky; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; diffuse irregular boundary. Lab sample # UCD01724
    Bt2—99 to 122 centimeters (39.0 to 48.0 inches); light red (2.5YR 6/8), reddish yellow (5YR 6/8), dry; gravelly clay; 20 percent sand; 32 percent silt; 48 percent clay; weak fine angular blocky parts to massive; friable, moderately sticky; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; diffuse broken boundary. Lab sample # UCD01725
    Cr—122 centimeters (48.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # UCD01726