IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Arcata
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2007CA605503
  • User Pedon ID: S07CA023008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0452
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24055
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 41.7763596
  • Std. Longitude: -124.1990585
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 16N
  • Range: 1W
  • Location Description: Residential side yard; Northcrest Road; Del Norte County, California.
  • Map Unit: 145—Halfbluff-Tepona-Urban Land, 0 to 2 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-G2—Crescent City, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Joe Seney
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, isomesic Oxyaquic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Arcata
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/6/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Arcata
  • Classificaton Date - 10/2/2007
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: marine deposits derived from mixed sources
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: marine terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/2/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    umbric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    aquic conditions

    0—46

    46—89

    89—152

    —46—

    —77—

    —63—
    Site Soil Temperature
    Site Obs. Date Depth Sensor Kind Temperature
    cm C

    10/2/2007

    11

    —

    50
    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

    1

    —

    —

    10.5

    —

    280

    1950

    —

    300

    10

    14

    9

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    A—0 to 28 centimeters (0.0 to 11.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, dry; fine sandy loam; 13 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 4.0 very fine roots and 2.0 fine roots; 2.0 very fine tubular and 2.0 very fine irregular and 2.0 fine tubular and 2.0 fine irregular pores; fragments; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.4, pH indicator strip; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N02949; moist when described; observed in cut, beveled
    BA—28 to 46 centimeters (11.0 to 18.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) broken face, brown (7.5YR 5/4) broken face, dry; fine sandy loam; 12 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 3.0 very fine roots and 2.0 fine roots; 3.0 very fine irregular and 1.0 very coarse tubular and 2.0 fine irregular and 1.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.4, pH indicator strip; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N02950; moist when described; observed in cut, beveled
    Bw1—46 to 72 centimeters (18.1 to 28.3 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) broken face, strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) broken face, dry; fine sandy loam; 12 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 1.0 very fine roots and 1.0 fine roots; 3.0 very fine irregular and 1.0 very fine tubular and 2.0 fine irregular pores; fragments; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.4, pH indicator strip; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N02951; moist when described; observed in cut, beveled
    Bw2—72 to 89 centimeters (28.3 to 35.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face, reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) broken face, dry; sandy loam; 10 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 0.5 fine roots; 4.0 very fine irregular and 2.0 fine irregular pores; 15 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, iron-manganese masses with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH indicator strip; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N02952; moist when described; observed in cut, beveled
    CB—89 to 110 centimeters (35.0 to 43.3 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) broken face, olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6) broken face, dry; sandy loam; 6 percent clay; structureless massive; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; 0.2 very fine roots; 6.0 very fine interstitial and 6.0 fine interstitial pores; 20 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 5.8, pH indicator strip; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N02953; moist when described; observed in cut, beveled
    C—110 to 152 centimeters (43.3 to 59.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) broken face, yellow (2.5Y 7/6) broken face, dry; loamy sand; 4 percent clay; structureless massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 6.0 very fine interstitial and 6.0 fine interstitial pores; 5 percent fine faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark gray (2.5Y 4/1), moist, iron depletions with diffuse boundaries in matrix and 25 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 5.6, pH indicator strip. Lab sample # 08N02954; moist when described; observed in cut, beveled