IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Colinas
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1958PR135002
  • User Pedon ID: S1958PR135002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0544
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 33072
  • Print Date: 2/3/2025

    • 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: 18.3697224
  • Std. Longitude: -66.2630539
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Cibuco Soil Conservation District, Puerto Rico. 50 feet north of road at kilometer marker 0.1, road No. 823. Aerial Photo GS-LR-1-47.
  • State: Puerto Rico

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: T. U. Yager.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, carbonatic, isohyperthermic Typic Haprendolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Colinas (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 25 to 51 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/5/2023
  • Classifier - S. Rios
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - thirteenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Colinas
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, carbonatic, isohyperthermic Eutropeptic Rendolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/6/1958
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: hill
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/6/1958 (actual site observation date)
  • 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

    mollic epipedon

    calcic horizon

    0—25

    25—84

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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

    35

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    130

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    180

    2032

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) broken face clay; 37 percent sand; 18 percent silt; 45 percent clay; moderate fine granular, and moderate medium granular, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 15 percent coarse carbonate concretions and 1 percent coarse noncoherent cemented lime masses; angular 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A04018; moist when described;
    Bw—25 to 43 centimeters (9.8 to 16.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face gravelly loam; 39 percent sand; 41 percent silt; 20 percent clay; 2 percent carbonate clay; moderate fine granular, and weak medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium granular structure; firm, slightly plastic; 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9, pH meter; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A04019; moist when described;. Tongues amounting to approximately 10 percent of Ap extend into this horizon; few scattered shells.
    C—43 to 84 centimeters (16.9 to 33.1 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4) broken face loam; 41 percent sand; 41 percent silt; 18 percent clay; 6 percent carbonate clay; massive; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1 percent coarse noncoherent cemented white (10YR 8/1), moist, lime masses and 1 percent fine noncoherent cemented white (10YR 8/1), moist, lime masses and 1 percent medium noncoherent cemented white (10YR 8/1), moist, lime masses; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH meter. Lab sample # 40A04020; moist when described;