IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cotito
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988PR071001
  • User Pedon ID: 88PR071001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0371
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60489
  • 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: 18.4711113
  • Std. Longitude: -67.0494461
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Puerto Rico, Isabella Municipio, USA Tropical Ag. Exp. Sta. 1.8 km W of Mora 700 meters N of HWY 2.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Puerto Rico
  • County: PR071—Isabela
  • MLRA: 272—Humid Coastal Plains
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PR684—Mayaguez Area, Puerto Rico Western Part

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Williams and F. Beinroth
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, ferruginous, isohyperthermic Lithic Kandiudox
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Cotito
  • Classificaton Date - 4/1/2001
  • Classifier - D. Williams and F. Beinroth
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cotito
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey, mixed Aquic Hapludox
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/1988
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: karstic marine terrace, karst valley
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: very strongly coherent limestone, unspecified at 54cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/1/1988 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: D. Williams and F. Beinroth
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other 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

    4

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    123

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    0

    150

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    A—0 to 6 centimeters (0.0 to 2.4 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior, brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior, dry; clay; 63 percent clay; moderate fine granular, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 fine roots throughout; 2.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, pH meter; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P01896. Surface cover of (7.5YR 4/4) granules (possibly worm or insect casts).; common fine roots throughout
    AB—6 to 18 centimeters (2.4 to 7.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior, yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior, dry; clay; 69 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 fine roots throughout; 2.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P01898. common fine roots throughout
    Bo1—18 to 31 centimeters (7.1 to 12.2 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior, yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior, dry; clay; 78 percent clay; moderate very fine subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 37 percent distinct coats on all faces of peds; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P01899. Few manganese coatings in lower part.; common coats surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; few fine roots throughout; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1657091; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1657091
    Bo2—31 to 54 centimeters (12.2 to 21.3 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior, yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior, dry; clay; 86 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 15 percent distinct coats on all faces of peds; 11 percent medium platy iron-manganese masses; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH meter. Lab sample # 88P01900. Some peds completely coated with manganese breaking to weak fine angular blocky.; common medium soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; few coats surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; few fine roots throughout; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1657090; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1657090
    R—54 to 74 centimeters (21.3 to 29.1 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # 88P01901