IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dolekei
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 79TQ634027
  • User Pedon ID: 79TQ634027
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 79P0335
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47068
  • 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: 6.9511113
  • Std. Longitude: 158.2516632
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Ponape; 2.2 km east of Dahu Sokele Bridge and 215 meters south.
  • Country: FM—Federated States of Micronesia
  • MLRA: 195—Volcanic Islands of Central and Eastern Micronesia

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W. Laird
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, isohyperthermic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 27
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Dolekei
  • Classificaton Date - 6/15/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Dolekei
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1979
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1979 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    45

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    470

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    27

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    1A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) interior silt loam; moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots and 5.5 medium and coarse roots; 2.5 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P01750. About 5% gravel and 5% small hard basalt cobbles.; many very fine and fine roots; many medium and coarse roots
    1Bw—8 to 35 centimeters (3.1 to 13.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silty clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P01751. 5% gravel and 5% cobbles.; few very fine and fine roots; few medium roots
    1C—35 to 73 centimeters (13.8 to 28.7 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silt loam; massive; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 fine and medium roots; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, hellige-truog; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # 79P01752. Dark grayish brown (2.5 Y 4/2) lithochromic intrusion 20 cm thick at about 60 degree tilt.; common fine and medium roots
    1Cr—79 to 103 centimeters (31.1 to 40.6 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior weathered bedrock, silt loam; fragments. Lab sample # 79P01753. Many manganese and iron stains in fractures that are 3 to 7 cm apart and less than 1 mm wide.