IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Guayama
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1961PR079003
  • User Pedon ID: S1961PR079003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0567
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 33095
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 17.9966660
  • Std. Longitude: -67.0824966
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Lajas Valley, Puerto Rico, 50 feet north of kilometer marker 1.5, Highway 303. Photograph GS-LR-6-200. Suroeste SCD.
  • State: Puerto Rico
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PR687—Lajas Valley Area, Puerto Rico

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W. E. McKinzie.
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Guayama
  • PSC - 12 to 30 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/3/2003
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Guayama
  • Classificaton Date - 3/17/1961
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/17/1961 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: GSLR6-200
  • 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

    20

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    180

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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) clay loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A04155. Many fine subrounded volcanic fragments.
    BT—13 to 30 centimeters (5.1 to 11.8 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 fine roots; clay films on rock fragments; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A04156. Common fine volcanic fragments.
    C—30 to 53 centimeters (11.8 to 20.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; soft, firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A04157. Grades into weathered volcanic rock at depths of 10 to 24 inches.