IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Daguey
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1961PR011001
  • User Pedon ID: S1961PR011001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0579
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 33657
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 18.3176028
  • Std. Longitude: -67.1289417
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Oeste Soil Conservation District, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, kilometer marker 11.0 on Highway 110, 400 meters east on dirt road, 100 feet south of road. Photo GS-LR-2-203.
  • State: Puerto Rico
  • MLRA: 270—Humid Mountains and Valleys
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PR684—Mayaguez Area, Puerto Rico Western Part

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: L. H. Rivera
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, kaolinitic, isohyperthermic Inceptic Hapludox
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Daguey
  • PSC - 15 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/18/1961
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from volcanic rock
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/18/1961 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: GSLR2-203
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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

    18

    —

    —

    —

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    315

    2019

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    365

    31.6

    32.6

    30.3

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    666083

    Mayaguez Airport, Puerto Rico

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    AP—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) clay; 3 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) fine faint mottles; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A04237
    B21T—15 to 33 centimeters (5.9 to 13.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 fine roots; 0.5 fine pores; clay films; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A04238. Fails semiplastically.; patchy - phpvsfiid 1519894; patchy - phpvsfiid 1519894
    B22T—33 to 48 centimeters (13.0 to 18.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) interior and weak red (2.5YR 5/2) exterior clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine pores; clay films on faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A04239. Fails semiplastically.; patchy - phpvsfiid 1519895; patchy - phpvsfiid 1519895
    B23T—48 to 81 centimeters (18.9 to 31.9 inches); red (10R 4/6) clay; weak fine angular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine pores; clay films; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A04240. Fails abruptly.; patchy - phpvsfiid 1519896; patchy - phpvsfiid 1519896
    B3—81 to 109 centimeters (31.9 to 42.9 inches); red (10R 4/6) clay; weak fine angular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 1 percent clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A04241. Fails abruptly.
    C1—109 to 152 centimeters (42.9 to 59.8 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) and dark red (2.5YR 3/6) and very pale brown (10YR 7/4) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) and red (10R 4/6) rubbed clay loam; massive; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.1 fine roots; fragments. Lab sample # 40A04242