IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cayagua
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988PR085001
  • User Pedon ID: 88PR085001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0368
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60486
  • 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: 18.1977787
  • Std. Longitude: -65.8944473
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Puerto Rico, Las Piedras Municipio, 200 meters NE of HWY 30, 4.5 km Se of Juncos.
  • State: Puerto Rico
  • County: PR085—Las Piedras
  • MLRA: 272—Humid Coastal Plains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Williams and G. Avevedo
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, semiactive, isohyperthermic Aeric Albaqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Cayagua
  • Classificaton Date - 5/18/2021
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cayagua
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed Albaquic Hapludalfs
  • PSC - 21 to 60 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/1988
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/1/1988 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • 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

    paralithic contact

    argillic horizon

    0—21

    0—69

    21—60

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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

    8

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    133

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    270

    203

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    1A—0 to 9 centimeters (0.0 to 3.5 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) interior sandy loam; 18 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P01871. many fine roots throughout
    1E—9 to 21 centimeters (3.5 to 8.3 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) interior sandy loam; 14 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 fine roots throughout; 11 percent fine spherical iron-manganese concretions; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P01872. common fine iron-manganese concretions concentrations; many fine roots throughout
    1Bt—21 to 43 centimeters (8.3 to 16.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior clay; 45 percent clay; 11 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) fine distinct and 30 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) medium distinct mottles; moderate coarse subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 15 percent distinct , moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine spherical iron-manganese concretions; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 88P01873. few fine iron-manganese concretions concentrations; few clay films surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; few fine roots throughout; many medium distinct 10YR52 mottles; common fine distinct 10YR68 mottles; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1923482; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1923482
    1Bt2—43 to 60 centimeters (16.9 to 23.6 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior clay; 45 percent clay; 11 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) fine distinct and 30 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) medium distinct mottles; moderate coarse subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 15 percent distinct , moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P01874. few clay films surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; few fine roots throughout; many medium distinct 10YR62 mottles; common fine distinct 10YR68 mottles; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1923483; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1923483
    1BC—60 to 69 centimeters (23.6 to 27.2 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) interior sandy clay loam; 22 percent clay; 30 percent light gray (10YR 7/2) medium distinct mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 15 percent faint , moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine spherical iron-manganese concretions; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P01875. few fine iron-manganese concretions concentrations; few clay films surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; few fine roots throughout; many medium distinct 10YR72 mottles; patchy - phpvsfiid 1923484; patchy - phpvsfiid 1923484
    1Cr—69 to 101 centimeters (27.2 to 39.8 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior very gravelly sand; 2 percent clay; 11 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) coarse distinct mottles; massive; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified. Lab sample # 88P01876. Fractured planes coated with clean sand grains and manganese.; common coarse distinct 10YR56 mottles