IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dryfield
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2007CA601889
  • User Pedon ID: S2007CA601889
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0235
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19674
  • Print Date: 11/13/2024

    • 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: 40.2908058
  • Std. Longitude: -123.8147812
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Fruitland Ridge. Kreutel property. Just off of ridge in 6 year old vineyard.
  • Map Unit: 666—Dryfield-Yorknorth-Witherell complex, 2 to 15 percent slopes
  • State: California
  • County: CA023—Humboldt
  • MLRA: 5—Siskiyou-Trinity Area
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA601—Humboldt County, South Part, California
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40123-C7—Myers Flat, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JWH, NEF
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Ultic Haploxeralfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 889
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Dryfield
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Ultic Haploxeralfs
  • Classificaton Date - 8/14/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture SUBClass - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium derived from mudstone and/or residuum weathered from sandstone
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank, upper third
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: mudstone
  • Geology: Yager member of the Yager Terrane formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/14/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 6248-30
  • Plant Association Name: vineyard
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - crop vines
  • 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

    argillic horizon

    0—27

    27—110

    —27—

    —83—
    Site Soil Temperature
    Site Obs. Date Depth Sensor Kind Temperature
    cm C

    8/14/2007

    50

    —

    22
    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

    11

    —

    —

    355

    —

    270

    1500

    —

    260

    14

    —

    —

    17

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    A1—0 to 12 centimeters (0.0 to 4.7 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) crushed, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) crushed, moist; silt loam; 20 percent clay; strong very coarse prismatic parts to strong medium granular structure; very hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 1.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 5.8; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 08N01449; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    A2—12 to 27 centimeters (4.7 to 10.6 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) crushed, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) crushed, moist; silt loam; 20 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky parts to strong medium granular structure; very hard, firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 1.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 5.8; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N01450; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    ABt—27 to 60 centimeters (10.6 to 23.6 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) crushed, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) crushed, moist; loam; 24 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, moderately sticky, very plastic; moderate permeability; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 1.0 very fine tubular pores; 5 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N01451; dry when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 401977; patchy - phpvsfiid 401977
    Bt1—60 to 85 centimeters (23.6 to 33.5 inches); 60 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) and 40 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist; clay loam; 30 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; moderately slow permeability; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 4.0 very fine tubular pores; 40 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 2-20-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N01452; dry when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 401978; patchy - phpvsfiid 401978
    Bt2—85 to 110 centimeters (33.5 to 43.3 inches); 60 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) and 40 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist; clay loam; 28 percent clay; 2 percent light red (2.5YR 6/6) medium distinct irregular mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; moderately slow permeability; 3.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 very fine vesicular pores; 40 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 2-20-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N01453; dry when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 401979; patchy - phpvsfiid 401979
    C1—110 to 150 centimeters (43.3 to 59.1 inches); pink (7.5YR 7/4), strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist; clay loam; 30 percent clay; 5 percent light red (2.5YR 6/6) medium distinct irregular mottles; massive; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; moderately slow permeability; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 2-20-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N01454; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    C2—150 to 200 centimeters (59.1 to 78.7 inches); yellow (10YR 7/8), brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), moist; clay loam; 30 percent clay; massive; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; moderately slow permeability; 5 percent medium distinct noncoherent cemented very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry, clay depletions throughout and 15 percent medium distinct noncoherent cemented reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8), dry, iron-manganese masses throughout; 6 percent by volume nonflat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 2-20-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 6.0. Lab sample # 08N01455; dry when described; observed in auger, bucket