IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Delicias
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: D04PR023021
  • User Pedon ID: D04PR023021
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - 2004-019T
  • Transect Stop Number - 4
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 05N0806
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17709
  • 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: 18.1284445
  • Std. Longitude: -67.1597606
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Delicias clay, 5 to 20 percent slopes; approximately 200 feet west from the intersection of P.R. Hwy. 100 and Los Americanos Road; about 25 feet north from the road in naturalized pastureland; Cabo Rojo Municipality. (USGS Mayaguez topographic quadrangle (1964); lat. 18 degrees 07 minutes 40 seconds N., and long. 67 degrees 09 minutes 37 seconds W.)
  • Map Unit: DcD2—Delicias clay, 5 to 20 percent slopes, erodedDeD—Delicias clay, 5 to 20 percent slopes
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PR684—Mayaguez Area, Puerto Rico Western PartPR787—San German Area, Southwestern Puerto Rico

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Samuel Rios
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, ferruginous, isohyperthermic Rhodic Hapludox
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 21
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Delicias
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/27/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Delicias
  • Classificaton Date - 8/11/2004
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium and residuum weathered from serpentinite
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: alluvial fan
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Pre-late Kimmeridgian (jurassic) member of the Serpentinite formation in the Jse group.
  • Surface Fragments: 24.00 percent well rounded ironstone nodules,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/11/2004 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 1B
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    oxic horizon

    0—15

    15—172

    10—15—20

    127—157—188
    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

    17

    —

    —

    80

    —

    280

    1256

    —

    365

    25.4

    26.5

    23.9

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    667492

    Puerto Real

    Weather (NOAA)
    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) broken face gravelly clay; 29 percent sand; 13 percent silt; 58 percent clay; strong fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular and 3.0 fine irregular pores; 24 percent by volume rounded strongly coherent cemented 2-50-75 millimeter iron-manganese nodules fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in cut
    Bo1—15 to 36 centimeters (5.9 to 14.2 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) broken face gravelly clay; 28 percent sand; 17 percent silt; 55 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine irregular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 10 percent faint pressure faces on all faces of peds; 22 percent by volume rounded strongly coherent cemented 2-50-75 millimeter iron-manganese nodules fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in cut. continuous - phpvsfiid 351649; continuous - phpvsfiid 351649
    Bo2—36 to 53 centimeters (14.2 to 20.9 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) broken face gravelly clay; 23 percent sand; 12 percent silt; 65 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 3.0 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular and 3.0 fine irregular pores; 20 percent faint pressure faces on all faces of peds; 26 percent by volume rounded strongly coherent cemented 2-50-75 millimeter iron-manganese nodules fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in cut. continuous - phpvsfiid 351650; continuous - phpvsfiid 351650
    Bo3—53 to 91 centimeters (20.9 to 35.8 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) broken face very gravelly clay; 23 percent sand; 13 percent silt; 64 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine irregular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 20 percent distinct pressure faces on all faces of peds; 45 percent by volume rounded strongly coherent cemented 2-50-75 millimeter iron-manganese nodules fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in cut. continuous - phpvsfiid 351651; continuous - phpvsfiid 351651
    Bo4—91 to 119 centimeters (35.8 to 46.9 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) broken face gravelly clay; 14 percent sand; 16 percent silt; 70 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine irregular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 30 percent prominent pressure faces on all faces of peds; 26 percent by volume rounded strongly coherent cemented 2-50-75 millimeter iron-manganese nodules fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in cut. continuous - phpvsfiid 351652; continuous - phpvsfiid 351652
    Bo5—119 to 172 centimeters (46.9 to 67.7 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) broken face gravelly clay; 11 percent sand; 24 percent silt; 65 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 medium irregular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 60 percent prominent pressure faces on all faces of peds; 15 percent by volume rounded strongly coherent cemented 2-50-75 millimeter iron-manganese nodules fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog.; moist when described; observed in cut. continuous - phpvsfiid 351653; continuous - phpvsfiid 351653