IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Canoecreek
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2006CA601794
  • User Pedon ID: S2006CA601794
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2006CA601794
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 07N0367
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18880
  • 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: 40.2877300
  • Std. Longitude: -124.0489272
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 575—Canoecreek-Sproulish-Redwohly complex, 50 to 75 percent slopes
  • State: California
  • County: CA023—Humboldt
  • MLRA: 4B—Coastal Redwood Belt
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA601—Humboldt County, South Part, California
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40124-C1—Bull Creek, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jonathan W. Hooper
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, isomesic Typic Dystrustepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 794
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Canoecreek
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/17/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Canoecreek
  • Classificaton Date - 12/5/2006
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium derived from sandstone and/or colluvium derived from conglomerate and/or residuum weathered from sandstone and/or residuum weathered from conglomerate
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Yager Terrane formation of the Franciscan Complex group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/5/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 6246-172
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion sheet
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    LIDE3

    PSME

    Lithocarpus densiflorus

    Pseudotsuga menziesii

    tanoak

    Douglas-fir

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

    12/5/2006

    50

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    9
    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

    58

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    731

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    120

    2160

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    260

    11

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    10

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    Oi—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); 0.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments.; observed in pit, small
    A—5 to 22 centimeters (2.0 to 8.7 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; loam; 20 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; moderately hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout and 2.0 coarse roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 10 percent by volume angular strongly coherent cemented 2-30-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6. Lab sample # 07N01874; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—22 to 60 centimeters (8.7 to 23.6 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; loam; 23 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 10 percent prominent clay films on top faces of peds; 25 percent by volume subrounded strongly coherent cemented 2-30-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6. Lab sample # 07N01875; observed in pit, small
    Bw2—60 to 90 centimeters (23.6 to 35.4 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; loam; 22 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 10 percent prominent clay films on top faces of peds; 55 percent by volume angular strongly coherent cemented 2-40-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4.; observed in pit, small
    C—90 to 120 centimeters (35.4 to 47.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; sandy loam; 8 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 65 percent by volume angular strongly coherent cemented 2-40-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4.; observed in pit, small
    C—120 to 140 centimeters (47.2 to 55.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; sandy loam; 8 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; moderately rapid permeability; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 65 percent by volume angular strongly coherent cemented 2-40-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4.; observed in pit, small
    C—140 to 200 centimeters (55.1 to 78.7 inches); 0.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments.; observed in auger, bucket