IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Humatas
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1981PR003003
  • User Pedon ID: S1981PR003003A
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 84P0311
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 54555
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • LOCATION

  • State: Puerto Rico
  • County: PR003—Aguada

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: G. Acevedo and L. Rivera
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Humatas
  • Taxonomic Class - Very-fine, parasesquic, isohyperthermic Typic Haplohumults
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1981
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: hillside
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1981 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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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    270

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    1A 1—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 fine roots; dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) coats on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. many fine roots
    1B 21t—23 to 52 centimeters (9.1 to 20.5 inches); clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; dark red (2.5YR 3/6) coats on faces of peds and 15 percent clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. few clay films surface features on faces of peds; patchy - phpvsfiid 1195307; patchy - phpvsfiid 1195307
    1B 22t—52 to 73 centimeters (20.5 to 28.7 inches); clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; dark red (2.5YR 3/6) coats on faces of peds and 15 percent clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P1623. few clay films surface features on faces of peds; few fine roots; patchy - phpvsfiid 1195309; patchy - phpvsfiid 1195309
    1B 22t—73 to 94 centimeters (28.7 to 37.0 inches); clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.1 fine roots; red (2.5YR 4/6) coats on faces of peds and 15 percent clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P1623. few clay films surface features on faces of peds; very few fine roots; patchy - phpvsfiid 1195312; patchy - phpvsfiid 1195312
    1B 3—94 to 122 centimeters (37.0 to 48.0 inches); clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; red (2.5YR 4/6) coats on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary.
    1C—122 to 154 centimeters (48.0 to 60.6 inches); unknown texture; massive; friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; black (5YR 2/1) coats on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog. Saprolite texture.