IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Colinas
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1973PR091002
  • User Pedon ID: S1973PR091002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1973PR091002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1269
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 34878
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Norte SCD, Puerto Rico, 70 meters west of kilometer marker 6.4 of highway 49, municipality of Manati, Arecibo Soil Survey Area.
  • State: Puerto Rico

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Luis H. Rivera
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, carbonatic, isohyperthermic Typic Haprendolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Colinas
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/2002
  • Classifier - Greg Brannon
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Colinas
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, carbonatic, isohyperthermic Eutropeptic Rendolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/6/1973
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: hill
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/28/1973 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    DIER

    Digitaria eriantha

    digitgrass

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    calcic horizon

    0—18

    18—100

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    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

    35

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    50

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) clay loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; many fine roots; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A09650. common fine and medium soft limestone fragments.
    Bw—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; common fine roots; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A09651. common fine and medium soft limestone fragments.
    C—30 to 100 centimeters (11.8 to 39.4 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2) and very pale brown (10YR 7/3) sandy loam; massive; very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; many roots; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 40A09652. soft limestone; many dead roots.