IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Toa
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1963PR011002
  • User Pedon ID: S1963PR011002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0545
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 33073
  • 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: 18.2722225
  • Std. Longitude: -67.1699982
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Oeste SCD, Puerto Rico, 10 kilometers north of the city of Mayaquez in the Anasco River valley, 650 meters on dirt road west of kilometer marker 146.1 on Highway 2 and 75 feet south of dirt road.
  • State: Puerto Rico

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. E. Gierbolini.
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Toa
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/23/1963
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: levee
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/23/1963 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop 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
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    AP—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) silty clay loam; weak medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A04021. Few fine volcanic fragments.
    B21—18 to 41 centimeters (7.1 to 16.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) silty clay loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 fine roots; 0.5 fine pores; clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) dark nodules; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A04022. Few fine volcanic fragments.; patchy - phpvsfiid 196922; patchy - phpvsfiid 196922
    B22—28 to 58 centimeters (11.0 to 22.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) silty clay loam; 1 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) fine faint mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 3.0 fine pores; clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) dark concretions; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A04023. patchy - phpvsfiid 196923; patchy - phpvsfiid 196923
    C1—58 to 94 centimeters (22.8 to 37.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 medium and 3.0 fine pores; 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) dark concretions; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A04024
    C2—94 to 152 centimeters (37.0 to 59.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) clay loam; massive; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) dark concretions; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 40A04025. Auger sample.