IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Consumo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1987PR007007
  • User Pedon ID: 87PR007007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0298
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59593
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 18.2091675
  • Std. Longitude: -67.0333328
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Puerto Rico, Oeste SWCD; 200 feet S of HWY 106 at km marker 12.6 and 1.5 mi W on 106 from junction w/ HWY 356.
  • State: Puerto Rico
  • County: PR007—Aguas Buenas
  • MLRA: 270—Humid Mountains and Valleys
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-MAZ—Mayaguez, Puerto Rico

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Williams, G. Acevedo, W. Lynn, L. Rivera
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, semiactive, isohyperthermic Typic Haplohumults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Consumo
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, semiactive, isohyperthermic Typic Haplohumults
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 4 to 54 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/24/2013
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/1/1987 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - close-grown crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—4

    4—40

    136—150

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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

    25

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    —

    360

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    0

    —

    —

    —

    24

    25

    22

    27

    28

    25

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    Ap—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) interior clay; 4 percent sand; 30 percent silt; 67 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; Ksat of 0.05 um/s; very slow permeability; infiltration rate of 0.03 cm/hr; many fine roots throughout; 15 percent faint , moist, coats in root channels and/or pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P1499; moist when described;. Few charcoal frags.; few coats surface features in root channels and/or pores; many fine roots throughout; patchy - phpvsfiid 1194099; patchy - phpvsfiid 1194099
    Bt1—4 to 20 centimeters (1.6 to 7.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior clay; 5 percent sand; 33 percent silt; 62 percent clay; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; Ksat of 0.05 um/s; very slow permeability; infiltration rate of 0.03 cm/hr; few medium roots throughout and common fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 55 percent distinct reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, pH meter; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P1500; moist when described;. Few old root channels, few filled insect holes, few clay balls.; many clay films surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; common fine roots throughout; few medium roots throughout; few fine 10YR56 mottles; continuous - phpvsfiid 1194100; continuous - phpvsfiid 1194100
    Bt2—20 to 40 centimeters (7.9 to 15.7 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior clay; 7 percent sand; 36 percent silt; 57 percent clay; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) fine distinct and 1 percent yellow (10YR 8/6) fine distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; Ksat of 0.05 um/s; very slow permeability; infiltration rate of 0.03 cm/hr; common fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 15 percent distinct reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, clay films in root channels and/or pores and 55 percent distinct reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P1501; moist when described;. Few filled insect holes, few clay balls.; many clay films surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; few clay films surface features in root channels and/or pores; common fine roots throughout; few fine distinct 7.5YR46 mottles; few fine distinct 10YR86 mottles
    Bt3—40 to 61 centimeters (15.7 to 24.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior clay; 13 percent sand; 37 percent silt; 50 percent clay; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) fine distinct and 1 percent yellow (10YR 8/6) fine distinct mottles; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; Ksat of 0.05 um/s; very slow permeability; infiltration rate of 0.03 cm/hr; few fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 15 percent distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, clay films in root channels and/or pores; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P1502; moist when described;. Few old root channels, few old roots, rock frag are volcanic.; few clay films surface features in root channels and/or pores; few fine roots throughout; few fine distinct 7.5YR46 mottles; few fine distinct 10YR86 mottles
    BC—61 to 136 centimeters (24.0 to 53.5 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior paragravelly silty clay; 9 percent sand; 43 percent silt; 48 percent clay; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) fine distinct and 1 percent yellow (10YR 8/6) fine distinct mottles; massive; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; Ksat of 0.5 um/s; very slow permeability; infiltration rate of 0.03 cm/hr; few fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, coats on surfaces along root channels; 17 percent by volume nonflat subrounded extremely weakly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter volcanic, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P1503; moist when described;. Soft volcanic frag.; few fine roots throughout; few fine distinct 7.5YR46 mottles; few fine distinct 10YR86 mottles
    C—136 to 150 centimeters (53.5 to 59.1 inches); silty clay loam; 19 percent sand; 53 percent silt; 28 percent clay; massive; very friable; Ksat of 5 um/s; moderately slow permeability; infiltration rate of 0.4 cm/hr; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, pH meter. Lab sample # 87P1505; moist when described;. Highly weatered saprolite material with few quartz frag.