IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Juana Diaz
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1989PR075001
  • User Pedon ID: 89PR075001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 89P0395
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61499
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 18.0511112
  • Std. Longitude: -66.4830551
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Juana Diaz Municipio; Ponce s.s. sheet 23; 1.0 miles E of Juana Diaz; 1.1 miles E on Hwy 14 from Jct with Hwy 149; 150 feet S of road in pasture
  • State: Puerto Rico
  • County: PR075—Juana Diaz
  • MLRA: 271—Semiarid Mountains and Valleys

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Williams, C. Santiago
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Juana Diaz
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed Typic Ustropepts
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/1989
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/1/1989 (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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—25

    25—97

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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

    30

    —

    —

    88

    —

    270

    84

    —

    —

    26

    28

    24

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    7292

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    A1—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; loam; 26 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium granular structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 5.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P02192. many fine roots throughout
    A2—13 to 25 centimeters (5.1 to 9.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), dry; clay loam; 31 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P02193. common fine roots throughout
    Bw1—25 to 66 centimeters (9.8 to 26.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), dry; loam; 27 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P02194. rock fragments are partially weathered volcanic; common fine roots throughout
    Bw2—66 to 97 centimeters (26.0 to 38.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 8 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P02195. few fine roots throughout
    2BC—97 to 140 centimeters (38.2 to 55.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; coarse sandy loam; 11 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; extremely hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 1 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P02196. horizontal bedding evident; few fine roots throughout; common fine distinct 5YR56 mottles
    2CB—140 to 178 centimeters (55.1 to 70.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; coarse sandy loam; 1 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; extremely hard, firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 1 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, bromthymol blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P02197. horizontal bedding evident; few fine roots throughout; few fine distinct 5YR56 mottles
    Ck—178 to 206 centimeters (70.1 to 81.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; coarse sandy loam; 1 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; extremely hard, firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, phenol red. Lab sample # 89P02198. horizontal bedding evident, thin coating of CaCO3 on vertical and horizontal fracture planes; few fine distinct 5YR56 mottles