IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fomseng
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 79TQ634022
  • User Pedon ID: 79TQ634022
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 79P0334
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47067
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 6.9461112
  • Std. Longitude: 158.2075043
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Ponape; 300 meters E of Nanpohnmall chlorination plant along pipeline road and 30 meters N of first manhole.
  • Country: FM—Federated States of Micronesia
  • MLRA: 195—Volcanic Islands of Central and Eastern Micronesia

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W. Laird
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, mixed, isohyperthermic Typic Humitropepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 22
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Fomseng
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Maratong
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1979
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1979 (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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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

    23

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    525

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    27

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    1A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, dry; clay; strong fine and medium granular structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots; 5.5 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P01746. many very fine and fine roots
    1Bw1—8 to 15 centimeters (3.1 to 5.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) interior silty clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 fine and medium roots; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P01747. common fine and medium roots
    1Bw2—15 to 36 centimeters (5.9 to 14.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) interior very cobbly clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 fine and medium roots; 5.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P01748. About 40 percent soft saprolitic cobbles that can be broken easily with the hands.; common fine and medium roots
    1Cr—36 to 180 centimeters (14.2 to 70.9 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # 79P01749. Highly weathered volcanic breccia that can be easily dug and cut with a spade; roots are matted on top of this horizon.