IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Guayabo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: D99PR023017
  • User Pedon ID: D99PR023017
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 81P0316
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49160
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 17.9727778
  • Std. Longitude: -67.1833333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Guayabo fine sand, 0 to 5 percent slopes; approximately 2.2 miles southwest from the intersection of PR Hwy. 301 and PR Hwy. 303; about 0.5 mile south of Pole Ojea community from the intersection of PR Hwy. 301 and PR Hwy. 3301; about 1,200 feet northwest of dirt road on wildlife habitat; Cabo Rojo Municipality. (USGS Cabo Rojo topographic quadrangle (1966) lat. 17 degrees 58 minutes 22 seconds N. and long. 67 degrees 11 minutes 00 second W.)
  • Map Unit: Gf—Guayabo fine sandGuB—Guayabo 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: Mixed, isohyperthermic Arenic Paleargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 17
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Guayabo
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/27/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Guayabo
  • Classificaton Date - 1/20/1981
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • 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: Tertiary member of the Quartz Sand Deposits formation in the Tqs group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/20/1981 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 9D
  • 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
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—140

    165—191

    —-

    —-
    Site Soil Temperature
    Site Obs. Date Depth Sensor Kind Temperature
    cm C

    1/20/1981

    50

    —

    28
    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

    —

    —

    5

    —

    220

    668

    —

    365

    26.5

    28.1

    24.6

    28

    29.4

    26

    —

    —

    2066

    Combate Station

    NRCS-NWCC SCAN
    Ap—0 to 17 centimeters (0.0 to 6.7 inches);, brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, moist; sand; 97 percent sand; 1 percent silt; 2 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, pH meter; clear smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    E1—17 to 32 centimeters (6.7 to 12.6 inches);, pale brown (10YR 6/3) broken face, moist; sand; 97 percent sand; 1 percent silt; 2 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, pH meter; clear smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    E2—32 to 46 centimeters (12.6 to 18.1 inches);, pale brown (10YR 6/3) broken face, moist; fine sand; 97 percent sand; 1 percent silt; 2 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 30 percent faint strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, organic stains on surfaces along root channels; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, pH meter; clear smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 352688; continuous - phpvsfiid 352688
    E3—46 to 90 centimeters (18.1 to 35.4 inches);, very pale brown (10YR 7/3) broken face, moist; sand; 98 percent sand; 1 percent silt; 1 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 30 percent faint strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, organic stains on surfaces along root channels; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 352689; continuous - phpvsfiid 352689
    E4—90 to 140 centimeters (35.4 to 55.1 inches);, very pale brown (10YR 7/3) broken face, moist; sand; 98 percent sand; 0 percent silt; 2 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    EB—140 to 164 centimeters (55.1 to 64.6 inches);, very pale brown (10YR 7/4) broken face, moist; fine sand; 96 percent sand; 32 percent silt; 1 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 1 percent fine distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, pH meter; clear smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt—164 to 190 centimeters (64.6 to 74.8 inches); variegated, 34 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) broken face and 33 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) broken face and 33 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) broken face, moist; loamy sand; 83 percent sand; 6 percent silt; 12 percent clay; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 10 percent faint clay bridges between sand grains; 10 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, pH meter.; dry when described; observed in pit, small