IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Aguirre
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1995PR7870795
  • User Pedon ID: 95PR079005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 95P0595
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 67608
  • 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: 18.0044441
  • Std. Longitude: -67.0161133
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Approximately 3.4 miles southeast of the city of Lajas from the intersection of P.R. highway 116 and P.R. highway 117; about 200 feet east of dirt road on pasture.
  • State: Puerto Rico
  • MLRA: 273—Semiarid Coastal Plains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Milton Cortez, John Davis, Dewayne Williams, Waren Lynn
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, smectitic, isohyperthermic Sodic Haplusterts
  • 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 - Aguirre
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/3/2003
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Aguirre
  • Classificaton Date - 6/28/1995
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: valley
  • Landform: valley floor
  • Microfeature: gilgai
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: occasional ponding begining in aug
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/28/1995 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 6B
  • 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

    mollic epipedon

    slickensides

    0—15

    15—277

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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

    1

    —

    —

    5

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    889

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    —

    25

    —

    —

    23.9

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches);, very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist; clay; moderate fine and medium granular structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 30.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 1 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 95P04381; moist when described;
    Bss—15 to 38 centimeters (5.9 to 15.0 inches);, very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist; clay; strong coarse wedge, and strong medium and coarse angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 20.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 20 percent distinct slickensides (pedogenic) throughout; 1 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 95P04382; moist when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 245886; continuous - phpvsfiid 245886
    Bssk1—38 to 76 centimeters (15.0 to 29.9 inches);, very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist; clay; strong coarse wedge, and strong medium and coarse angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 20.0 fine roots in cracks; 20 percent distinct slickensides (pedogenic) throughout; 15 percent fine platy carbonate masses in cracks; 1 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 95P04383; moist when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 245887; continuous - phpvsfiid 245887
    Bssk2—76 to 109 centimeters (29.9 to 42.9 inches);, very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1), moist; clay; strong coarse wedge, and strong medium and coarse angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 20.0 fine roots in cracks; 20 percent faint manganese or iron-manganese stains throughout and 20 percent faint organic stains throughout and 35 percent distinct slickensides (pedogenic) throughout; 5 percent fine spherical iron-manganese concretions throughout; 5 percent fine platy carbonate masses in cracks; 1 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 95P04384; moist when described;. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 245889; continuous - phpvsfiid 245888; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 245890; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 245889; continuous - phpvsfiid 245888; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 245890
    Bss1—109 to 145 centimeters (42.9 to 57.1 inches);, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; clay; strong coarse wedge, and strong medium and coarse angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 2.0 very fine roots in cracks; 20 percent faint organic stains throughout and 29 percent faint strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) iron stains throughout and 35 percent distinct slickensides (pedogenic) throughout; 15 percent fine spherical iron-manganese concretions throughout and 15 percent fine platy iron-manganese masses throughout; 1 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 95P04385; moist when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 245893; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 245891; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 245892; continuous - phpvsfiid 245893; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 245891; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 245892
    Bss2—145 to 175 centimeters (57.1 to 68.9 inches);, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; clay; strong coarse wedge, and strong medium and coarse angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 1.0 very fine roots in cracks; 20 percent distinct manganese or iron-manganese stains throughout and 20 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) iron stains throughout and 35 percent distinct slickensides (pedogenic) throughout; 20 percent fine and medium irregular oxide masses in cracks; 1 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 95P04386; moist when described;. patchy - phpvsfiid 245895; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 245894; continuous - phpvsfiid 245896; patchy - phpvsfiid 245895; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 245894; continuous - phpvsfiid 245896
    Bss3—175 to 201 centimeters (68.9 to 79.1 inches);, brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; clay; strong coarse wedge, and strong medium and coarse angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine roots in cracks; 15 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) iron stains throughout and 35 percent distinct slickensides (pedogenic) throughout; 15 percent fine spherical iron-manganese concretions throughout and 15 percent fine platy iron-manganese masses throughout; 1 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 95P04387; moist when described;. patchy - phpvsfiid 245897; continuous - phpvsfiid 245898; patchy - phpvsfiid 245897; continuous - phpvsfiid 245898
    Bss4—201 to 277 centimeters (79.1 to 109.1 inches);, brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist; clay; strong coarse wedge, and strong medium and coarse angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 15 percent distinct iron stains throughout and 15 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) manganese or iron-manganese stains throughout and 35 percent distinct slickensides (pedogenic) throughout; 1 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 95P04388; moist when described;. patchy - phpvsfiid 245899; patchy - phpvsfiid 245900; continuous - phpvsfiid 245901; patchy - phpvsfiid 245899; patchy - phpvsfiid 245900; continuous - phpvsfiid 245901