IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Palmar
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S09CR007001
  • User Pedon ID: S2009CR007001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S09CR007001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 09N0814
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24462
  • Print Date: 1/30/2025

    • 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: 10.0307198
  • Std. Longitude: -84.7979202
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: In a crop field with 3 % slope and 100 meters above mean sea level. Sugar plantation located in Puntarenas Province, Puntarenas Canton. 2.4 KM NW of El Zopotal
  • Country: CS—Costa Rica

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, isohyperthermic Aquic Haplustepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: family
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Palmar
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, isohyperthermic Aquic Haplustepts
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/7/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: alluvial plain
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/7/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop 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

    SACCH

    Saccharum

    sugarcane

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

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    redox concentrations

    0—32

    32—95

    118—205

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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

    3

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    21

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    100

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    Ap—0 to 19 centimeters (0.0 to 7.5 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; silt loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine roots and 21.0 medium roots and 21.0 fine roots and 21.0 coarse roots; 21.0 very fine and 21.0 medium and 21.0 fine and 21.0 coarse pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N02766
    Ap2—19 to 32 centimeters (7.5 to 12.6 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 3.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots and 3.0 coarse roots; 3.0 very fine and 3.0 medium and 3.0 fine pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N02767
    A3—32 to 61 centimeters (12.6 to 24.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 very fine and fine pores; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N02768
    Bw—61 to 95 centimeters (24.0 to 37.4 inches); 5 percent light gray (10YR 7/2) and yellow (10YR 7/6), 8 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), moist; fine sandy loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 3.0 fine and medium pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N02769
    2Ab1—95 to 118 centimeters (37.4 to 46.5 inches); 95 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and 5 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), 15 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1) and 8 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; clay loam; moderate coarse prismatic structure; very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine and medium roots; 3.0 very fine and fine and 3.0 medium pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N02770
    2Ab2—118 to 145 centimeters (46.5 to 57.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; moderate coarse prismatic structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 3.0 very fine and fine and 0.5 medium pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N02771
    2Bw—145 to 185 centimeters (57.1 to 72.8 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), brown (10YR 4/3) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; sandy loam; weak medium prismatic structure; nonsticky; 3.0 fine and medium roots; 3.0 fine and medium pores; gray (10YR 5/1) iron-manganese concretions and gray (10YR 6/1) iron depletions; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N02772
    2C—185 to 205 centimeters (72.8 to 80.7 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist; loamy coarse sand; 3.0 fine and medium pores; gray (10YR 6/1) iron depletions and gray (10YR 5/1) iron-manganese concretions; fragments. Lab sample # 09N02773