IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Southgate
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1991VI010003
  • User Pedon ID: 91VI010003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P0070
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 63117
  • Print Date: 4/14/2025

    • 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: 17.7577782
  • Std. Longitude: -64.5733337
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: From East Point Lookout, W on Route 66 .5 mile, 75 yards SW of road on slope.
  • State: Virgin Islands
  • County: VI010—St. Croix

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, isohyperthermic Lithic Ustropepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Southgate
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cramer
  • Taxonomic Class - Lithic Haplustalf
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1991
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1991 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches);, reddish brown (5YR 4/3), moist; clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments. Lab sample # 91P00421. color is between (5YR 4/3) and (7.5YR 4/4), gravel = volcanic
    Bt—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches);, reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P00422. weakly developed
    Cr—20 to 41 centimeters (7.9 to 16.1 inches);, reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; clay; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. no sample; unconsolidated volcanic rock, could be considered Btcr as in old descriptions, contains large angular cobbles lef in field
    R—41 centimeters (16.1 inches); fragments. consolidated volcanic dark bedrock; similar to fragments in Cr sample