IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Forestay
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: CA03688SC041
  • User Pedon ID: CA03688SC041
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 05N0104
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17020
  • 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: 33.9972778
  • Std. Longitude: -119.6661389
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 200—Fantail, thin surface-Forestay-Fantail association, 20 to 75 percent slopes
  • State: California
  • County: CA083—Santa Barbara
  • MLRA: 20—Southern California Mountains
  • Regional Office: SW—Southwest
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA688—Channel Islands Area, California, Parts of Santa Barbara and Los Angeles Counties
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 33119-H6—Santa Cruz Island C (digital), California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: MEB
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey-skeletal, smectitic, mesic Ultic Palexerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 103
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Forestay
  • PSC - 68 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/25/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Forestay
  • Classificaton Date - 5/13/2003
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from shale
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hill
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 15.00 percent 2- to 75-millimeter
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/13/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: d
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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

    22

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    90

    457

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    340

    14

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    13

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    Oi—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face, black (10YR 2/1) broken face, moist; fragments, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 05N00481; observed in pit, small
    A1—5 to 10 centimeters (2.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, black (10YR 2/1) broken face, moist; gravelly loam; 50 percent sand; 10 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 15 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 6.8, cresol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N00482; observed in pit, small
    A2—10 to 38 centimeters (3.9 to 15.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, black (10YR 2/1) broken face, moist; gravelly loam; 45 percent sand; 15 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 20 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 6.8, cresol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N00483; observed in pit, small
    A3—38 to 68 centimeters (15.0 to 26.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) broken face, moist; very gravelly sandy loam; 65 percent sand; 15 percent clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 35 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 6.6, cresol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N00484; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—68 to 89 centimeters (26.8 to 35.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face, moist; very gravelly clay; 25 percent sand; 55 percent clay; massive; moderately hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 60 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 6.6, cresol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N00485; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—89 to 115 centimeters (35.0 to 45.3 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face, moist; gravelly clay; 25 percent sand; 55 percent clay; massive; moderately hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 25 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 6.6, cresol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N00486; observed in pit, small
    Bt3—115 to 152 centimeters (45.3 to 59.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face, moist; very gravelly clay; 25 percent sand; 55 percent clay; massive; moderately hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 60 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 6.6, cresol red. Lab sample # 05N00487; observed in pit, small