IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Morado
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2006PR023006
  • User Pedon ID: S2006PR023006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 07N0369
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19218
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 18.0744438
  • Std. Longitude: -67.1363907
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Puerto Rico
  • County: PR023—Cabo Rojo
  • MLRA: 270—Humid Mountains and Valleys
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PR787—San German Area, Southwestern Puerto Rico
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: TPR0047—Puerto Real, Puerto Rico

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: SRT
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, superactive, isohyperthermic Dystric Eutrudepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Morado
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, superactive, isohyperthermic Dystric Eutrudepts
  • Classificaton Date - 9/21/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Geology: K1: Lajas Formation (basalt & Flow & Tuffs) formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/21/2007 (entry creation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 5A
  • Plant Association Name: Yerba Estrella
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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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    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2), gray (5YR 5/1), dry; clay loam; strong very fine granular, and strong fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 very fine interstitial and 3.0 fine interstitial pores; 2 percent faint pressure faces on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 6.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N01883; observed in cut. continuous - phpvsfiid 373379; continuous - phpvsfiid 373379
    Bw1—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2), dark gray (5YR 4/1), dry; clay; strong very fine subangular blocky, and strong fine subangular blocky structure; 3.0 very fine roots and 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 very fine irregular and 3.0 fine irregular pores; 3 percent distinct pressure faces on all faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # 07N01884; observed in cut. Rock fragments for horizon Bw1: 5% PGR; continuous - phpvsfiid 373388; continuous - phpvsfiid 373388
    Bw2—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); reddish gray (5YR 5/2) and dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2), gray (5YR 6/1) and dark reddish gray (5YR 4/2), dry; clay; moderate very fine angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; 2.0 very fine roots and 2.0 fine roots; 2.0 very fine irregular and 2.0 fine irregular pores; 2 percent prominent pressure faces on all faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # 07N01885; observed in cut. continuous - phpvsfiid 373391; continuous - phpvsfiid 373391
    Cr—36 to 152 centimeters (14.2 to 59.8 inches); 1.0 very fine roots and 1.0 fine roots; dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2), moist,; fragments. Lab sample # 07N01886; observed in cut. Moderately weathered, fractured, semi-consolidated volcanic bedrock. Soil accumulation between crack from above horizon.