IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Palm
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S10PR119001
  • User Pedon ID: S2010PR119001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N1052
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 55625
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 18.3091111
  • Std. Longitude: -65.7943056
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Puerto Rico
  • MLRA: 270—Humid Mountains and Valleys
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PR700—El Yunque National Forest, Puerto Rico
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: TPR0022—El Yunque, Puerto Rico

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: SRT/JLL
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, kaolinitic, isothermic Typic Humaquepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Palm
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, kaolinitic, isothermic Typic Humaquepts
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2010
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum
  • Landscape: Luquillo mountain range
  • Landform: mountain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/7/2010 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

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    1027

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    165

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    A—0 to 38 centimeters (0.0 to 15.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) mucky silt loam; strong fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine to coarse roots; 21.0 very fine and fine irregular pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 10N05141; observed in auger, screw
    Bg—38 to 71 centimeters (15.0 to 28.0 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2) silty clay loam; strong fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm, nonsticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 fine and medium roots; 3.0 very fine and fine irregular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 10 percent greenish gray (5GY 6/1) and greenish gray (10Y 5/1) iron depletions and 15 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) and red (2.5YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; positive to alpha-alpha dipyridyl; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N05142; observed in auger, screw
    BC—71 to 89 centimeters (28.0 to 35.0 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2) silty clay loam; massive; firm, nonsticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 2 percent dusky red (7.5R 3/3) and olive (5Y 5/4) and dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) masses of oxidized iron and 20 percent N 5/1 (N 5/1) and dark greenish gray (10Y 4/1) iron depletions; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 10N05143; observed in auger, screw
    Cr—89 to 97 centimeters (35.0 to 38.2 inches); fragments.; observed in auger, screw
    R—97 centimeters (38.2 inches); fragments.; observed in auger, screw