IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): FERNDALE
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1964-CA-08-006
  • User Pedon ID: 64-CA-08-006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD6408006
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42039
  • Print Date: 5/7/2024

    • 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: 41.8974876
  • Std. Longitude: -124.1706467
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 17N
  • Range: 1N
  • Section: 3
  • PLSS Details: Center NW/4
  • State: California
  • County: CA015—Del Norte
  • MLRA: 4B—Coastal Redwood Belt
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA605—Humboldt and Del Norte Area, California
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41124-H2—Smith River, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JM
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, isomesic Typic Tropofluvents
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - FERNDALE
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, isomesic Typic Tropofluvents
  • Classificaton Date - 1/26/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: ALL
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Geology: Franciscan Graywacke Alluvium formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/26/2009 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - shrub cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - native shrubs
  • 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

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    9

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    1905

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    11.7

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine roots throughout and 21.0 fine roots throughout; 21.0 very fine irregular and 21.0 fine irregular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD00709
    A12—15 to 56 centimeters (5.9 to 22.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; silt loam; massive; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 21.0 very fine irregular and 21.0 fine irregular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD00710
    C1—56 to 102 centimeters (22.0 to 40.2 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; loamy fine sand; massive; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine irregular and 3.0 fine irregular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD00711
    C2—102 to 168 centimeters (40.2 to 66.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), gray (10YR 6/1), dry; silt loam; 21 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1) fine faint mottles; massive; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6. Lab sample # UCD00712