IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cartagena
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2009PR123006
  • User Pedon ID: S2009PR123006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 09N0825
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24693
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 17.9592495
  • Std. Longitude: -66.2495804
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Puerto Rico
  • County: PR123—Salinas
  • MLRA: 273—Semiarid Coastal Plains
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-MAZ—Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: TPR0016—Central Aguirre, Puerto Rico

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JLL/SRT/CLS/EB
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, superactive, isohyperthermic Sodic Haplusterts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cartagena
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, superactive, isohyperthermic Sodic Haplusterts
  • PSC - 33 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/25/2009
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 36.94 percent of Average clay in control section and 22.48 percent of average coarse fragments in control section


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: mixed alluvium
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: alluvial flat
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/25/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 49
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Site Soil Temperature
    Site Obs. Date Depth Sensor Kind Temperature
    cm C

    3/25/2009

    50

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    27
    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

    0.5

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    5

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    180

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    Ap—0 to 33 centimeters (0.0 to 13.0 inches);, very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist; clay; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, extremely firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 21.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine and medium tubular pores; 30 percent distinct pressure faces; 2 percent medium 5Y 4/6 (5Y 4/6) iron-manganese masses; 15 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N02831; observed in trench. continuous - phpvsfiid 556945; continuous - phpvsfiid 556945
    Bkss1—33 to 62 centimeters (13.0 to 24.4 inches);, 34 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and 33 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and 33 percent gray (10YR 5/1), moist; clay; moderate fine and medium wedge, and moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, extremely firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine and medium tubular pores; 75 percent distinct pressure faces; 10 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5; clear wavy boundary.; observed in trench. continuous - phpvsfiid 556946; continuous - phpvsfiid 556946
    Bkss2—62 to 79 centimeters (24.4 to 31.1 inches);, 34 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and 33 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and 33 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist; clay; weak fine and medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, extremely firm, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine and medium tubular pores; 30 percent distinct pressure faces; 5 percent fine manganese concretions; 10 percent fine and medium carbonate masses; 5 percent by volume nonflat 2-3-5 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5; clear wavy boundary.; observed in trench. continuous - phpvsfiid 556947; continuous - phpvsfiid 556947
    Bkss3—79 to 109 centimeters (31.1 to 42.9 inches);, 50 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and 50 percent gray (10YR 6/1), moist; clay; weak fine and medium wedge, and weak fine and medium subangular blocky, and weak fine and medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine and medium tubular pores; 10 percent prominent slickensides (pedogenic) on all faces of peds and 75 percent prominent pressure faces; 10 percent fine manganese concretions; 5 percent fine and medium carbonate masses; 10 percent by volume nonflat 2-3-5 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; diffuse wavy boundary.; observed in trench. continuous - phpvsfiid 556948; continuous - phpvsfiid 556949; continuous - phpvsfiid 556948; continuous - phpvsfiid 556949
    Bkss4—109 to 160 centimeters (42.9 to 63.0 inches);, 75 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and 25 percent greenish gray (10Y 6/1), moist; clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium and coarse angular blocky, and strong fine and medium wedge structure; extremely hard, firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine and medium tubular and 3.0 fine and medium irregular pores; 30 percent prominent slickensides (pedogenic) on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine and medium 5Y 4/6 (5Y 4/6) masses of oxidized iron and 6 percent fine iron-manganese concretions; 5 percent fine and medium carbonate masses; 6 percent by volume nonflat 2-3-5 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0.; observed in trench. continuous - phpvsfiid 556950; continuous - phpvsfiid 556950