IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bayamon
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1973PR091001
  • User Pedon ID: S1973PR091001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1257
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 34866
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 18.4341660
  • Std. Longitude: -66.4358368
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Manati Municipio, Puerto Rico. 50 meters N of kilometer marker 2.75 of highway 670, municipality of Manati, Arecibo Soil Survey Area.
  • State: Puerto Rico
  • County: PR091—Manati
  • MLRA: 272—Humid Coastal Plains
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-MAZ—Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PR682—Arecibo Area, Puerto Rico Northern Part

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Luis H. Rivera
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, kaolinitic, isohyperthermic Typic Hapludox
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bayamon (flagged as OSD)
  • Classificaton Date - 11/30/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bayamon
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/1973
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/1/1973 (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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    oxic horizon

    0—28

    28—165

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    —137—
    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

    3

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    75

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    Ap1—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and moderate fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 fine roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A09563. 74B104; many fine quartz grains; many fine roots
    Ap2—13 to 28 centimeters (5.1 to 11.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) and dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 5.5 fine roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A09564. 74B105; many fine quartz grains; many fine roots
    Bo1—28 to 48 centimeters (11.0 to 18.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 2.5 fine tubular pores; , moist, black stains in root channels and/or pores; 1 percent fine dark concretions; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A09565. 74B106; many fine quartz grains; shiny ped faces; few fine dark concretions concentrations; few fine roots
    Bo2—48 to 84 centimeters (18.9 to 33.1 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 fine tubular pores; , moist, black stains in root channels and/or pores; 1 percent fine dark concretions; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A09566. 74B107; common fine quartz grains; few fine dark concretions concentrations
    Bo3—84 to 117 centimeters (33.1 to 46.1 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 fine tubular pores; 1 percent fine dark concretions; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A09567. 74B108; many fine quartz grains; black coatings along ped faces; few fine dark concretions concentrations
    Bo4—117 to 152 centimeters (46.1 to 59.8 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A09568. 74B109; common fine quartz grains
    Bo5—152 to 165 centimeters (59.8 to 65.0 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) clay; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; weak medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 fine tubular pores; 1 percent fine spherical dark concretions; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 40A09569. 74B110; common fine quartz grains; few fine dark concretions concentrations; few fine distinct 10YR56 mottles