IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Unnamed
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1961PR023001
  • User Pedon ID: S1961PR023001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0557
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 33085
  • Print Date: 4/28/2024

    • 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: 18.0388889
  • Std. Longitude: -67.1077805
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Lajas Valley, Puerto Rico, 275 feet north of country road, 0.3 mile east of Highway 4, kilometer marker 13.1, 132 feet north of cement marker A.F.F. No. 38 on edge of main irrigation canal. Suroeste SCD.
  • State: Puerto Rico
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PR687—Lajas Valley Area, Puerto Rico

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: O. R. Carter
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Unnamed
  • PSC - 0 to 30 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/20/1961
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/20/1961 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    10

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    225

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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) clay loam; moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A04090. Many fine sand-size fragments; few 5-to 50-mm. volcanic pebbles.
    B—13 to 30 centimeters (5.1 to 11.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) weathered bedrock; massive; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A04091. Very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) clay on seams an in pockets (about 15 percent by volume); saprolite can be broken easily with fingers.
    R—30 to 38 centimeters (11.8 to 15.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A04092. Hard volcanic rock that cannot be broken easily with spade.