IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mucara
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2006PR023024
  • User Pedon ID: S2006PR023024
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 07N0370
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19219
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 18.0673065
  • Std. Longitude: -67.1698608
  • 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-loamy, mixed, superactive, isohyperthermic Dystric Eutrudepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 24
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mucara
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, isohyperthermic Dystric Eutrudepts
  • Classificaton Date - 9/8/2004
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: igneous, unspecified
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/8/2004 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 5A
  • 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
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    32

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark olive brown (2.5Y 3/3), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), dry; clay loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 1.0 fine interstitial and 2.0 fine irregular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat angular 2-?-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; very slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N01887; observed in cut
    Bw1—13 to 30 centimeters (5.1 to 11.8 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 2.0 fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine irregular and 2.0 fine irregular pores; 15 percent distinct pressure faces on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume nonflat angular 2-?-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; very slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N01888; observed in cut. patchy - phpvsfiid 373484; patchy - phpvsfiid 373484
    Bw2—30 to 46 centimeters (11.8 to 18.1 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 2.0 fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine irregular pores; fragments; noneffervescent; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N01889; observed in cut. Rock fragment is 20% of saprolite, crushed color 5Y 4/3.
    C—46 to 81 centimeters (18.1 to 31.9 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) and light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) and light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) loam; massive; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.0; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N01890; observed in cut. Saprolite, rock structure can be visible.
    Cr—81 centimeters (31.9 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 07N01891; observed in cut. Slightly weathered fractured volcanic bedrock. Can be rippable with hand tool.