IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Unnamed
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1961PR023002
  • User Pedon ID: S1961PR023002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0551
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 33079
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 18.0344448
  • Std. Longitude: -67.1780548
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Lajas Valley, Puerto Rico, 0.8 mile northwest of junction of old railroad bed and Highway 101, at kilometer marker 3.3 in Boqueron. Farm of Juan Carlo, 45 feet north of old railroad bed. Aerial photo GS-LR-6-94. Suroeste Soil Conservation District.
  • State: Puerto Rico
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PR687—Lajas Valley Area, Puerto Rico

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W. E. McKinzie.
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Unnamed
  • PSC - 25 to 43 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/20/1961
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/20/1961 (actual site observation date)
  • 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

    80

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    315

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    A11—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) clay; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; very hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A04052. Few volcanic fragments of pebble and cobble size.
    B—13 to 28 centimeters (5.1 to 11.0 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) clay; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; hard when dry, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 roots; 10 percent pressure faces; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A04053. Many sand-size and 2-to 5-mm. volcanic fragments.
    C—28 to 43 centimeters (11.0 to 16.9 inches); 40 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) and 40 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) and 10 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) and 10 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) Error; massive; hard when dry, firm, slightly sticky, nonplastic; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A04054. On wetting saprolite can be broken between fingers; grades into hard volcanic rock.
    R—43 to 51 centimeters (16.9 to 20.1 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A04055. Hard volcanic rock, difficult to dig with spade.