IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Victory
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988VI030002
  • User Pedon ID: 88VI030002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0391
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60509
  • Print Date: 11/13/2025

    • 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: 18.3236103
  • Std. Longitude: -64.9013901
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: St. Thomas, CI, 2 km SE of Pearson Gardnes, central St. Thomas USGS Quad (1:24000). Atlas Sheet 12.
  • State: Virgin Islands
  • County: VI030—St. Thomas
  • MLRA: 271—Semiarid Mountains and Valleys

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Williams and R. Rollings
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, superactive, isohyperthermic Typic Ustropepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Victory
  • PSC - 9 to 45 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Pozo Blanco
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, isohyperthermic Typic Haplustalf
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/1988
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • 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 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • 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

    cambic horizon

    0—9

    9—45

    45—65

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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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    60

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    225

    38

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    1A—0 to 9 centimeters (0.0 to 3.5 inches);, dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) interior, moist; clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate fine granular structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 medium roots and 2.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P02000; dry when described;. common medium roots; common fine roots throughout
    1Bt1—9 to 29 centimeters (3.5 to 11.4 inches);, dusky red (10R 3/4) interior, moist; clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 medium roots and 2.5 fine roots throughout; 3 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P02001; dry when described;. common medium roots; common fine roots throughout
    1Bt2—29 to 45 centimeters (11.4 to 17.7 inches);, dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) interior, moist; very gravelly clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 fine roots throughout; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P02002; dry when described;. common fine roots throughout
    2Bw1—45 to 54 centimeters (17.7 to 21.3 inches);, dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) interior, moist; very gravelly clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P02003; dry when described;
    2Bw2—54 to 65 centimeters (21.3 to 25.6 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P02003; dry when described;
    2C—65 to 92 centimeters (25.6 to 36.2 inches);, light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior, moist; loam; massive; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P02004; dry when described;. effervescence is continuous
    2R&C—92 to 175 centimeters (36.2 to 68.9 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 88P02005; dry when described;. Hard lightly fractured rock. Fractures 4 to 40 cm (C material (2.5Y 6/2) loam). (Not a lithic contact.)