IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Decy
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1980CA033005
  • User Pedon ID: S1980CA033005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1980CA033005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 81P0045
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48345
  • Print Date: 1/25/2025

    • 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: 39.4938889
  • Std. Longitude: -122.9269409
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 19M
  • Range: 10S
  • Section: 23
  • PLSS Details: 350 feet south, 2100 feet west of northeast corner
  • Location Description: Mendocino Forest, 0.2 miles north of intersection with road 19N19 on road 1NO2 then upslope 60 yards
  • State: California
  • County: CA033—Lake
  • MLRA: 5—Siskiyou-Trinity Area

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Humic Dystroxerepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Decy
  • Classificaton Date - 7/6/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Decy
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Dystric Xerumbrept
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/10/1980
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandstone and/or shale
  • Landscape: mountainous upland
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: sandstone and shale at 1cm
  • Geology: Fransiscan Complex formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/10/1980 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • 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

    ARCTO3

    PIPO

    PSMEG

    QUVE

    Arctostaphylos

    Pinus ponderosa

    Pseudotsuga menziesii var. glauca

    Quercus velutina

    manzanita

    ponderosa pine

    Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir

    black oak

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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

    25

    91

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    1450.8

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    113

    1270

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    145

    11.1

    18.9

    2.2

    11.1

    8.3

    5

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    01—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; fragments.
    A1—3 to 8 centimeters (1.2 to 3.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), brown (10YR 4/3), dry; gravelly sandy loam; moderate very fine granular, and moderate fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 3.0 very fine interstitial and 3.0 fine interstitial pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, bromcresol green; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P00259
    A2—8 to 23 centimeters (3.1 to 9.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; gravelly sandy loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 3.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial and 3.0 medium interstitial and 21.0 fine interstitial pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, bromcresol green; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P00260
    Bw1—23 to 41 centimeters (9.1 to 16.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; gravelly sandy loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots and 21.0 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots and 3.0 coarse roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial and 21.0 fine interstitial pores; thin silt coats on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, bromcresol green; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P00261
    Bw2—41 to 64 centimeters (16.1 to 25.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; very gravelly sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 medium roots and 3.0 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 3.0 very fine interstitial and 3.0 fine interstitial pores; thin silt coats on faces of peds and thin silt coats on surfaces along pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, bromcresol green; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P00262
    R—64 to 100 centimeters (25.2 to 39.4 inches); bedrock; fragments.