IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): ZENI
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1980CA045017
  • User Pedon ID: S1980CA045017
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 80P0448
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48224
  • Print Date: 4/25/2025

    • 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: 39.0019455
  • Std. Longitude: -123.3899994
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 8N
  • Range: 14W
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: 15 meters east and 15 meters south of northwest corner SE 1/4, NW 1/4
  • State: California
  • County: CA045—Mendocino
  • MLRA: 4B—Coastal Redwood Belt
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA694—Mendocino County, Western Part, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W. D. Broderson, T.D. Thorson and C. W. Smith
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, isomesic Ultic Haplustalfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 17
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - ZENI
  • PSC - 10 to 60 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/9/2006
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Zeni
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, isomesic Ultic Haplustalf
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1980
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from sandstone
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: weakly coherent sandstone, unspecified
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1980 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    25

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    365

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    45

    381

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    O1—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments.
    A1—2 to 12 centimeters (0.8 to 4.7 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; loam; moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium and coarse roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial and 21.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P02464
    Bt1—12 to 43 centimeters (4.7 to 16.9 inches); pink (7.5YR 7/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; clay loam; moderate fine angular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 medium and coarse roots and 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular and 3.0 very fine and fine interstitial pores; 2 percent by volume 2-?-15 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P02465
    Bt2—43 to 78 centimeters (16.9 to 30.7 inches); variegated reddish yellow (7.5YR 7/6) and yellow (10YR 7/6), yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist; clay loam; moderate fine angular blocky, and weak medium angular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine and medium roots and 3.0 coarse roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial and 21.0 very fine tubular pores; 75 percent thin clay films on all faces of peds and 75 percent thin clay films on surfaces along pores; 10 percent by volume very weakly coherent cemented 2-?-6 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 80P02466
    Cr1—78 to 116 centimeters (30.7 to 45.7 inches); yellow (10YR 7/6), yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist; bedrock; 0.5 fine roots; thick clay films on rock fragments; fragments. Lab sample # 80P02467. continuous - phpvsfiid 330922; continuous - phpvsfiid 330922
    Cr2—116 to 167 centimeters (45.7 to 65.7 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # 80P02468