IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Descalabrado
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1961PR121002
  • User Pedon ID: S1961PR121002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0556
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 33084
  • 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: 18.0441666
  • Std. Longitude: -66.9833298
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Lajas Valley, Puerto Rico, 0.3 mile north of Highway 117, kilometer marker 8.5, 300 feet northwest of secondary road, 275 feet southeast of main irrigation canal. Aerial Photo GS-LR-6-80. Suroeste SCD.
  • State: Puerto Rico
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PR687—Lajas Valley Area, Puerto Rico

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. B. Grossman
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Descalabrado
  • PSC - 25 to 45 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/3/2003
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Descalabrado
  • 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)
  • Air Photo ID: GSLR-6-80
  • 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

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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) gravelly clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A04086
    B—13 to 25 centimeters (5.1 to 9.8 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) Error; massive parts to weak fine subangular blocky; slightly hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; fragments; slight effervescence wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A04087. 50:50 ratio in texture materials; pockets of soil have the weak fine subangular blocky structure.
    C—25 to 46 centimeters (9.8 to 18.1 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A04088. Mixed volcanic, mudstone and limestone rock with pockets of clayey material similar to that of the B and occasional seams of secondary carbonates. Below this horizon there is hard volcanic rock which is difficult to dig with a spade.
    R—46 to 50 centimeters (18.1 to 19.7 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A04089. Hard volcanic rock that cannot be broken easily with a spade.