IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Victory
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1992VI010005
  • User Pedon ID: 92VI010005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 92P0463
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 64702
  • Print Date: 11/12/2025
  • 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: 17.7549992
  • Std. Longitude: -64.8552780
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Near Annaly intersection of VI-63 and VI-78, W 1/10 mile on VI-78, 500 feet N of VI-78 in pasture.
  • State: Virgin Islands
  • MLRA: 27—Fallon-Lovelock Area
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VI690—Virgin Islands of the United States
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J.R. Davis, C.L. Santiago, W.C. Lynn, B.C. Dubee
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, isohyperthermic Typic Ustropepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Victory
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Victory
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, isohyperthermic Typic Ustropept
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 3/3/1992
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/3/1992 (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

    paralithic contact

    0—15

    15—51

    84—0

    —-

    —-

    —-

    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

    12

    91

    15

    198

    290

    1092

    26.7

    27.8

    25.6

    4820

    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; soft, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately slow permeability; 3.0 fine and medium roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 21.0 fine and medium vesicular and tubular pores; 75 percent faint dark brown (10YR 3/3) organic stains on faces of peds and in pores; 3 percent fine and medium cylindrical worm nodules and 21 percent fine and medium cylindrical worm casts and 3 percent fine and medium spherical insect casts; 5 percent by volume subangular igneous, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P02808; moist when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 174573; continuous - phpvsfiid 174573
    AB—15 to 28 centimeters (5.9 to 11.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay loam; 1 percent yellow (10YR 7/6) fine and medium faint mottles; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; moderately slow permeability; 3.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 21.0 fine and medium vesicular and tubular pores; 75 percent faint dark brown (10YR 3/3) organic stains on faces of peds and in pores; 21 percent fine and medium cylindrical worm casts and 3 percent fine and medium spherical insect casts and 3 percent fine and medium cylindrical worm nodules; 5 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P02809; moist when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 174574; continuous - phpvsfiid 174574
    Bw1—28 to 36 centimeters (11.0 to 14.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) gravelly clay loam; 3 percent brown (7.5YR 5/4) medium distinct mottles; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderately slow permeability; 3.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 3.0 fine and medium vesicular and tubular pores; 30 percent faint dark brown (10YR 3/3) organic stains on faces of peds and in pores and 30 percent faint pressure faces on all faces of peds; 3 percent fine and medium cylindrical worm casts and 1 percent fine and medium spherical insect casts and 1 percent fine and medium cylindrical worm nodules; 20 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P02810; dry when described;. Thin section - clay plus iron and/or manganese coatings in cracks in rock fragments; more clay less iron-manganese cutans around grains in matrix, none in pores. Rock fragments finely crystalline without sand, soil matrix has common rock fragments and sand grains up to medium sand size.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 174575; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 174576; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 174575; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 174576
    Bw2—36 to 51 centimeters (14.2 to 20.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) gravelly clay loam; 1 percent reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) fine and medium faint and 3 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine and medium faint mottles; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderately slow permeability; 0.5 fine and medium roots throughout; 3.0 fine and medium vesicular and tubular pores; 30 percent distinct dark brown (10YR 3/3) organic stains on faces of peds and in pores and 30 percent faint pressure faces on all faces of peds; 3 percent fine and medium cylindrical worm casts and 1 percent fine and medium spherical insect casts and 1 percent fine and medium cylindrical worm nodules; 20 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P02811; dry when described;. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 174577; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 174578; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 174577; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 174578
    C\B—51 to 84 centimeters (20.1 to 33.1 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4) very gravelly clay loam; 3 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1) medium and coarse distinct and 3 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium distinct mottles; massive; moderately slow permeability; 0.5 fine and medium roots in cracks; 0.5 fine and medium vesicular and tubular pores; 30 percent distinct dark brown (10YR 3/3) organic stains in root channels and/or pores and 30 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) manganese or iron-manganese stains on rock fragments; 21 percent fine and medium irregular iron-manganese masses; 1 percent fine and medium cylindrical worm casts and 1 percent fine and medium spherical insect casts; 1 percent by volume subangular 75-162-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 55 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P02812; dry when described;. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 174579; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 174580; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 174579; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 174580
    Cr—84 to 122 centimeters (33.1 to 48.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4) extremely gravelly clay loam; 3 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1) medium and coarse distinct and 3 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium distinct mottles; massive; moderately slow permeability; 0.5 fine and medium roots in cracks; 0.5 fine and medium vesicular and tubular pores; 10 percent distinct dark brown (10YR 3/3) organic stains in root channels and/or pores and 30 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) manganese or iron-manganese stains on rock fragments; 21 percent fine and medium irregular iron-manganese masses; 1 percent fine and medium cylindrical worm casts; 20 percent by volume subangular 2-76-150 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 75 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # 92P02813; dry when described;. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 174581; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 174582; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 174581; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 174582