IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Maho Bay
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1964VI010005
  • User Pedon ID: 64VI010005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0555
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 33083
  • Print Date: 4/29/2025

    • 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: 17.7569447
  • Std. Longitude: -64.8380585
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: St. Croix, Virgin Islands, 1.75 miles W and 50 feet NE of intersection (Fountain-Lavallee and the Scenic-Drive).
  • State: Virgin Islands
  • County: VI010—St. Croix

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W.E. McKinzie
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, isohyperthermic Typic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Maho Bay
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - SND
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1964
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • 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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    30

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A04080. and 20058; few small volcanic fragments; sampled for the Bureau of Public Roads; many fine roots
    B1—15 to 25 centimeters (5.9 to 9.8 inches);, dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A04081. and 20059; few small volcanic fragments; sampled for the Bureau of Public Roads; many fine roots
    B2—25 to 36 centimeters (9.8 to 14.2 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silty clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; nonsticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 fine roots; faint very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films; 1 percent worm casts; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A04082. and 20060; few small volcanic fragments; 10-15% saprolite; few worm casts concentrations; common fine roots
    B3—36 to 48 centimeters (14.2 to 18.9 inches);, olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist; fragments. Lab sample # 40A04083. and 20061; loam (saprolite) with the fracture planes of the original rock structure coated with dark brown (10YR 3/3) clay and/or organic matter; sampled for the Bureau of Public Roads
    R1—48 to 76 centimeters (18.9 to 29.9 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A04084. and 20062; greenish gray partially weathered volcanic rock with organic and/or clay coatings on a few of the cleavage planes; difficult to penetrate with a spade; volcanic rock fragments mixed throughout the horizon; sampled for the Bureau
    R—76 centimeters (29.9 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A04085. hard bedded volcanic rock consisting of sandstone and/or siltstone