IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hugo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1957CA081001
  • User Pedon ID: S1957CA081001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1957CA081001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A2989
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 38118
  • Print Date: 6/3/2024

    • 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: 37.4113884
  • Std. Longitude: -122.3291702
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 6S
  • Range: 4W
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: Sample site in cut on north side of trail, SW 1/4 NW 1/4
  • Location Description: 4.9 miles north of Sky Londa along California Highway 5 (Skyline Blvd.) thence 2.35 miles SW along Swett Road to Junction with Double K Ranch Road, thence 850 feet (paced) easterly to sample site along old logging trail.
  • State: California
  • County: CA081—San Mateo
  • MLRA: 4B—Coastal Redwood Belt
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA637—San Mateo Area, California

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Xerochrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hugo
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hugo
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1957
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/1957 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ARBUT

    Arbutus

    madrone

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    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

    45

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    579

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    180

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    O1&O2—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A23521. Fresh and rotting leaves, needles, and twigs. Very dark colored wet and soggy and spongy.
    A1—5 to 25 centimeters (2.0 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 fine and medium roots and 0.5 roots; 3.0 fine tubular and 21.0 fine interstitial pores; white (10YR 8/1) in root channels and/or pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A23522
    B1—25 to 71 centimeters (9.8 to 28.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), very pale brown (10YR 7/4), dry; sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 fine and medium roots and 0.5 roots; 3.0 fine and 21.0 fine interstitial and 0.5 coarse tubular pores; 1 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog; diffuse boundary. Lab sample # 40A23523. sorted out and discarded about 25 percent by volume as gravel and small stones.
    B2—71 to 107 centimeters (28.0 to 42.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), very pale brown (10YR 7/4), dry; sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 fine and medium roots and 0.5 roots; 0.5 medium and coarse tubular and 21.0 fine interstitial and 3.0 fine pores; 50 percent by volume angular 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; abrupt broken boundary. Lab sample # 40A23524. sorted out and discarded about 50 percent by volume as angular stones up to 4 inches in diameter.
    CR—107 to 107 centimeters (42.1 to 42.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), yellow (10YR 7/6), dry; massive; reddish brown (5YR 5/3) clay films on rock fragments; fragments. Lab sample # 40A23525. soft sand-stone (Vaqueros Formation) with thin patchy reddish brown clay skins on surfaces of shattered fragments; essentially massive with increasing depth.; patchy - phpvsfiid 184073; patchy - phpvsfiid 184073