IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mucara
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1961PR067001
  • User Pedon ID: S1961PR067001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0541
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 33069
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 18.1177769
  • Std. Longitude: -67.0822220
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Suroeste Soil Conservation District, Puerto Rico, 100 feet north of new Highway 2, at a point 2.5 kilometers east of bridge over the Rosario River. Photo No. GS-LR-18-161.
  • State: Puerto Rico

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: L. H. Rivera
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Mucara
  • PSC - 25 to 50 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/3/2003
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mucara
  • Classificaton Date - 12/20/1961
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/20/1961 (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

    30

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    270

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    AP—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) clay; 1 percent dark greenish gray (5BG 4/1) fine faint mottles; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 fine roots; 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) dark concretions; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A04007
    B2—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); 60 percent brown (10YR 5/3) and 40 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 fine roots; clay films in root channels and/or pores; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A04008. patchy - phpvsfiid 186830; patchy - phpvsfiid 186830
    C—30 to 51 centimeters (11.8 to 20.1 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A04009. Semiconsolidated weathered volcanic rock. There are few stringers of A-C material running down into the saprolite.