IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Adjuntas
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1973PR141001
  • User Pedon ID: S1973PR141001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1266
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 34875
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Caonills SCD, Puerto Rico, 320 meters east of school at the end of Highway 602, municipality of Utuado, Arecibo Soil Survey Area.
  • State: Puerto Rico

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Luis H. Rivera
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Adjuntas
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/3/2003
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - ADJUNTAS
  • Classificaton Date - 11/27/1973
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: volcanic cone
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/27/1973 (actual site observation date)
  • 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

    45

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    550

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    AP—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) clay; moderate fine and medium granular structure; firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 fine roots; 21.0 pores; 1 percent by volume 20-48-75 millimeter volcanic breccia, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A09635. few fine quartz grains.
    B1—13 to 25 centimeters (5.1 to 9.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 fine roots; 21.0 fine pores; 10 percent clay films; 1 percent by volume 20-48-75 millimeter volcanic breccia, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A09636. few fine quartz grains.; patchy - phpvsfiid 187438; patchy - phpvsfiid 187438
    B2—25 to 43 centimeters (9.8 to 16.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 21.0 fine pores; 30 percent clay films; 1 percent by volume 20-48-75 millimeter volcanic breccia, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A09637. few fine quartz grains.; patchy - phpvsfiid 187427; patchy - phpvsfiid 187427
    B3—43 to 61 centimeters (16.9 to 24.0 inches); yellow (10YR 7/6) and very pale brown (10YR 8/2) and brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) clay; 3 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) fine prominent mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 21.0 fine pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A09638. many fine quartz grains.
    C—61 to 122 centimeters (24.0 to 48.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A09639. Strongly and partially weathered volcanic rocks.
    R—122 to 200 centimeters (48.0 to 78.7 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A09640. Semi-consolidated volcanic rock.