IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bahia
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: D99PR023001
  • User Pedon ID: D99PR023001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 81P0315
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49159
  • Print Date: 3/14/2025

    • 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: 17.9700000
  • Std. Longitude: -67.1952778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Bahia fine sand, 0 to 5 percent slopes; approximately 1.0 mile southwest of the intersection of P.R. Hwy. 301 and P.R. Hwy. 3301; about 0.3 mile west of Pole Ojea community; about 1,100 feet northwest of P.R. Hwy. 301 on wildlife habitat; Cabo Rojo Municipality. (USGS Cabo Rojo topographic quadrangle (1966); lat. 17 degrees 58 minutes 12 seconds N. and long. 67 degrees 11 minutes 43 seconds W.).
  • Map Unit: AsB—Americus (bahia) fine sand, 2 to 5 percent slopesBaB—Bahia fine sand, 0 to 5 percent slopes
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PR687—Lajas Valley Area, Puerto RicoPR787—San German Area, Southwestern Puerto Rico

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Gilberto Acevedo; Luis H. Rivera
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy, kaolinitic, isohyperthermic Typic Paleargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bahia
  • PSC - 15 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/27/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Americus
  • Classificaton Date - 1/19/1981
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy marine deposits
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: coastal plain
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Pattern: parallel
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Miocene And Oligocene member of the Quartz Sand Deposits (terciary?) formation in the Tqs group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/19/1981 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 9D
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    argillic horizon

    kandic horizon

    0—15

    15—168

    15—168

    10—15—18

    150—155—160

    150—155—160
    Site Soil Temperature
    Site Obs. Date Depth Sensor Kind Temperature
    cm C

    1/19/1981

    50

    —

    27
    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

    2

    —

    —

    20

    —

    60

    668

    —

    365

    26.5

    28.1

    24.6

    28

    29.4

    26

    —

    —

    2066

    Combate Station

    NRCS-NWCC SCAN
    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches);, dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) exterior, moist; fine sand; 93 percent sand; 2 percent silt; 5 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 2.0 fine roots throughout; 2 percent by volume iron-manganese concretions fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; moderately acid, pH 5.7, pH meter; clear smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bt1—15 to 43 centimeters (5.9 to 16.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) exterior, dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) exterior, moist; loamy sand; 89 percent sand; 1 percent silt; 10 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 5 percent faint clay films between sand grains; 2 percent by volume volcanic, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly acid, pH 6.2, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bt2—43 to 64 centimeters (16.9 to 25.2 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) exterior, dark red (2.5YR 3/6) exterior, moist; sand; 90 percent sand; 2 percent silt; 8 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 5 percent faint clay films between sand grains; 2 percent by volume volcanic, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly acid, pH 6.2, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bt3—64 to 115 centimeters (25.2 to 45.3 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) exterior, dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) exterior, moist; loamy sand; 84 percent sand; 3 percent silt; 13 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 5 percent faint clay films between sand grains; 2 percent by volume volcanic, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly acid, pH 6.3, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bt4—115 to 151 centimeters (45.3 to 59.4 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) exterior, dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) exterior, moist; fine sandy loam; 80 percent sand; 4 percent silt; 16 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; rapid permeability; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 5 percent faint clay films between sand grains; 2 percent by volume volcanic, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 6.6, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bt5—151 to 168 centimeters (59.4 to 66.1 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) exterior, dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) exterior, moist; fine sandy loam; 82 percent sand; 2 percent silt; 16 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; rapid permeability; 5 percent faint clay films between sand grains; 2 percent by volume volcanic, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly acid, pH 6.5, pH meter.; dry when described; observed in pit, large or quarry