IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): La Taina
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988PR125001
  • User Pedon ID: 88PR125001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0376
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60494
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 18.0841675
  • Std. Longitude: -67.0186081
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Puerto Rico, San German Municipio, 25 meters NE of HWY 2, 1.5 km E of San German
  • State: Puerto Rico
  • County: PR125—San German
  • MLRA: 272—Humid Coastal Plains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Williams and G. Acevedo
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Maresua
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey-skeletal, mixed, isohyperthermic, shallow T
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 42 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/1988
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 70.00 percent
  • 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
  • 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

    mollic epipedon

    paralithic contact

    0—42

    0—44

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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

    40

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    80

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    225

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    1A—0 to 21 centimeters (0.0 to 8.3 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior silty clay loam; 37 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 fine roots throughout; 6 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P01930; moist when described;. many fine roots throughout
    1Bw1—21 to 33 centimeters (8.3 to 13.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) interior gravelly clay; 45 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and weak fine granular structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 35 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P01931; moist when described;. common fine roots throughout
    1Bw2—33 to 42 centimeters (13.0 to 16.5 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) interior very gravelly clay; 45 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 fine roots throughout; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 60 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, bromthymol blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P01932; moist when described;. common fine roots throughout
    1Cr—42 to 75 centimeters (16.5 to 29.5 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # 88P01933. Highly fractured serpentine (2-5 cm between fractures); 5% fine earth material; few roots along fracture planes.