IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Russ
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2007CA600006
  • User Pedon ID: S2007CA023006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 07N0359
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18872
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 40.6060367
  • Std. Longitude: -124.2087289
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Humboldt County, California; About 1.2 kilometers southwest of the town of Fernbridge.
  • Map Unit: 195—Russ, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • State: California
  • County: CA023—Humboldt
  • MLRA: 4—California Coastal Redwood Belt
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA600—Humboldt County, Central Part, California
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40124-E2—Fortuna, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jennifer Berman
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, nonacid, mesic Typic Udifluvents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Russ
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, nonacid, mesic Typic Udifluvents
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/23/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium derived from mixed
  • Landscape: alluvial plain
  • Landform: natural levee
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: occasional flooding for brief periods begining in dec
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Wet Soil Moisture Duration: 8
  • Geology: Alluvium formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/23/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 395-49
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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

    ochric epipedon

    0—18

    —18—
    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

    —

    —

    6

    —

    0

    1069

    —

    300

    11

    —

    —

    13

    —

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    —

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark olive brown (2.5Y 3/3) broken face, light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) broken face, dry; loam; 17 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 medium tubular and 0.5 fine tubular and 0.5 coarse tubular pores; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 2-10-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, chlorophenol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N01858; observed in pit, small
    AC—20 to 55 centimeters (7.9 to 21.7 inches); dark olive brown (2.5Y 3/3) broken face, light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) broken face, dry; loam; 17 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 medium tubular and 0.5 fine tubular and 0.5 coarse tubular pores; 15 percent fine prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, iron-manganese masses on surfaces along root channels; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 2-10-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, chlorophenol red; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N01859; observed in pit, small
    C1—55 to 110 centimeters (21.7 to 43.3 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) broken face, light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) broken face, dry; loamy sand; 5 percent clay; structureless massive; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, chlorophenol red; clear smooth boundary.; observed in auger, bucket
    C2—110 to 135 centimeters (43.3 to 53.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) broken face, light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) broken face, dry; loam; 14 percent clay; structureless massive; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, chlorophenol red; clear smooth boundary.; observed in auger, bucket
    C3—135 to 180 centimeters (53.1 to 70.9 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) broken face, light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) broken face, dry; silt loam; 19 percent clay; structureless massive; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 5 percent medium distinct grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 5 percent medium distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, chlorophenol red; gradual smooth boundary.; observed in auger, bucket