IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Junquitos
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985PR119006
  • User Pedon ID: 85PR119006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0255
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 58060
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Puerto Rico, Caribbean National Forest; 10 yards E, km 2.2, Rd 903.
  • State: Puerto Rico
  • County: PR119—Rio Grande

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, mixed, active, isohyperthermic Aquic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Junquitos
  • Classificaton Date - 10/19/2021
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Junquitos
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed Typic Tropudalfs
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1985
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/1985 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    48

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    110

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    270

    191

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    24

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    1A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; 5.5 fine roots; 5.5 fine interstitial pores; 15 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P01470. (10YR 3/2) root channels.; many fine roots
    1Bt—8 to 23 centimeters (3.1 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; 2.5 fine and medium roots and 2.5 coarse roots; 2.5 fine and medium tubular pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P01471. 10% gravel; common fine and medium roots; common coarse roots
    1Btg1—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior clay; moderate coarse prismatic, and moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; 0.5 medium and coarse roots and 0.5 fine roots; 2.5 fine tubular pores; 15 percent , moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P01472. (7.5YR 5/6 and 10YR 8/1) mottling; lateral cracking every 8 cm. Cracks are .25 cm thick.; few clay films surface features on faces of peds; few fine roots; few medium and coarse roots
    1Btg2—38 to 61 centimeters (15.0 to 24.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; 0.5 medium and coarse roots and 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 15 percent , moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P01473. 20% gravel; (7.5YR 6/8, 2.5Y 6/4 and 5Y 6/3) mottling; few clay films surface features on faces of peds; few fine roots; few medium and coarse roots
    1Cg—61 to 127 centimeters (24.0 to 50.0 inches); pale olive (5Y 6/3) interior silty clay; weak fine and medium angular blocky structure; 0.5 fine and medium roots; 70 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P01474. 70% gravel; (10YR 5/6) mottling.; few fine and medium roots
    1R—127 to 152 centimeters (50.0 to 59.8 inches); unknown texture; fragments.