IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): San German
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1997PR079003
  • User Pedon ID: 97PR079003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 97P0483
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 10166
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 17.9822216
  • Std. Longitude: -67.0922241
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 3.0 miles west of La Parguera, Puerto Rico; 1.7 miles southeast of Rancho Cabassa; 20 feet east of gravel road.
  • State: Puerto Rico
  • MLRA: 271—Semiarid Mountains and Valleys
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PR787—San German Area, Southwestern Puerto Rico
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: TPR0042—Parguera, Puerto Rico

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jorge L. Lugo, Carmen L. Santiago and Greg Brannon
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - San German
  • PSC - 0 to 28 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/3/2003
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - San German
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, carbonatic, isohyperthermic Lithic
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/18/1997
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hill
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: h slight weathered limestone, unspecified
  • Surface Fragments: 16.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/18/1997 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 10D
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - other
  • 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

    paralithic contact

    lithic contact

    0—5

    28—66

    66—0

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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

    3

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    100

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    82

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 4/3), dry; gravelly loam; strong medium granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 50.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 50.0 very fine interstitial and 5.0 fine interstitial pores; 2 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 14 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 97P02898
    AC—5 to 28 centimeters (2.0 to 11.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 4/3), dry; extremely gravelly loam; massive; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 50.0 very fine roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout; 50.0 very fine interstitial pores; 70 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 97P02899
    Cr1—28 to 54 centimeters (11.0 to 21.3 inches); 50.0 very fine roots in cracks; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 97P02900. Stratified fracture hard semiconsolidated limestone bedrock.
    Cr2—54 to 68 centimeters (21.3 to 26.8 inches); fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 97P02901. Stratified fractured hard semiconsolidated limestone bedrock.
    R—68 centimeters (26.8 inches); fragments. Consolidated hard limestone bedrock.