IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Susannaberg
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988VI030003
  • User Pedon ID: 88VI030003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0392
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60510
  • Print Date: 4/23/2025

    • 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: 18.3547230
  • Std. Longitude: -65.0261078
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: St. Thomas, VI, Western St. Thomas USGS Quad (1:24000), 200 meters S of Bordeaux Hill, Atlas sheet 4.
  • 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, vermiculitic, isohyperthermic Typic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Susannaberg
  • PSC - 22 to 45 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cramer
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, isohyperthermic Typic Argiustoll
  • 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

  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 32.50 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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—22

    22—45

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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

    20

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    135

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    270

    12

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    1A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) interior, dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) interior, moist; clay loam; 33 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate fine granular structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.5 medium roots and 5.5 fine roots throughout; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, phenol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P02006; dry when described;. many medium roots; many fine roots throughout
    1A2—8 to 22 centimeters (3.1 to 8.7 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) interior, dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) interior, moist; clay loam; 37 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 medium roots and 2.5 fine roots throughout; 2.5 fine tubular pores; 1 percent worm casts; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, phenol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P02007; dry when described;. few worm casts concentrations; common medium roots; common fine roots throughout
    1Bt—22 to 45 centimeters (8.7 to 17.7 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) interior, red (2.5YR 4/6) interior, moist; clay; 55 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 37 percent distinct red (2.5YR 4/6) clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, phenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P02008; dry when described;. common clay films surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; few fine roots throughout; continuous - phpvsfiid 222996; continuous - phpvsfiid 222996
    1BC—45 to 70 centimeters (17.7 to 27.6 inches); 5YR 4/8 (5YR 4/8) interior, 5YR 4/8 (5YR 4/8) interior, moist; clay loam; 28 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 2.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, phenol red; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P02009; dry when described;. few fine roots throughout
    1Cr—70 to 120 centimeters (27.6 to 47.2 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 88P02010. Highly fractured volcanic sandstone 4 to 10 cm between fractures. Roots tend to turn but few between fracture planes. Fracture planes coated with manganes.