IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hesselberg
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1964VI010004
  • User Pedon ID: 64VI010004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0560
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 33088
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 17.6988888
  • Std. Longitude: -64.8072205
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: St. Croix, Virgin Islands, 0.7 mile W of the S entrance to the Airport and 470 feet S on secondary road, and 50 feet W of the road.
  • State: Virgin Islands
  • County: VI010—St. Croix

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W.E. McKinzie
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, mixed, superactive, isohyperthermic Petrocalcic Paleustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hesselberg
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hesselberg
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1964
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1964 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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
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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches);, dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist; silty clay; moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 roots; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A04105. and 20079; few limestone fragments; calcareous; sampled for the Bureau of Public Roads; near field capacity; many roots
    B1—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches);, dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist; clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 5.5 fine roots; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A04106. and 20080; few limestone fragments; calcareous; approximately 50% of field capacity; many fine roots
    B2—30 to 43 centimeters (11.8 to 16.9 inches);, dark red (2.5YR 3/6), moist; clay; weak medium prismatic, and moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 fine roots; 1 percent worm casts; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A04107. and 20081; few limestone fragments; calcareous with mycelial lime; sampled for the Bureau of Public Roads; below the wilting point; few worm casts concentrations; common fine roots
    C1ca—43 to 46 centimeters (16.9 to 18.1 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A04108. and 20082; hard white limestone with light red (2.5YR 6/6) bands; sampled for the Bureau of Public Roads
    C2ca—46 to 61 centimeters (18.1 to 24.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A04109. and 20083; white hard limestone; sampled for the Bureau of Public Roads