IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Weloy
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 80TQ639002
  • User Pedon ID: 80TQ639002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 80P0155
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47384
  • 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: 9.5433331
  • Std. Longitude: 138.1033325
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Weloy Municipality, Yap Island. Federated States of Micronesia. 0.8 km by Road N of village of Okau,
  • Country: FM—Federated States of Micronesia
  • MLRA: 193—Volcanic Islands of Western Micronesia

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Christopher Smith
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, isohyperthermic Abruptic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Weloy
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Weloy
  • Classificaton Date - 1/1/1980
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/1/1980 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • 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

    53

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    270

    310

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    27

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    Oi—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); undecomposed organic matter; fragments. Forest litter
    A—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior gravelly silty clay loam; strong very fine and fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots and 2.5 medium and coarse roots; 5.5 very fine interstitial and tubular and 2.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P00788. 25% shist gravels moderately hard and hard 2 mm 5 cm in size subangular to subrounded. 5% 10 cm sized soft fragments.; many very fine and fine roots; common medium and coarse roots
    AB—15 to 38 centimeters (5.9 to 15.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior very gravelly clay loam; strong medium and coarse subangular blocky, and strong very fine subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 5.5 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P00789. 40% 1 to 8 cm subangular to subrounded moderately hard to hard fragments.; few very fine and fine roots
    Bw—38 to 61 centimeters (15.0 to 24.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior very gravelly clay; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 2.5 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; 15 percent , moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, hellige-truog; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 80P00790. 2 pockets of soil, one color for each; B2 horizon ranges from 5 cm thick over lithic material to fingers from 8 cm wide at top to 3 cm at bottom between lithic material extending 46 cm down; 40% 1 to 8 cm subangular to subrounded moderately; few clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; few very fine and fine roots; few medium roots
    R—61 to 84 centimeters (24.0 to 33.1 inches); grayish green (5G 4/2) interior and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) interior sandy clay loam; 0.5 fine and medium roots; 2.5 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; 15 percent , moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, hellige-truog. (5G 4/2) lithic, (2.5 5/6) paralithic. Both with black manganese stains along fractures and (10YR 4/4) weathering rinds mostly on the paralithic material. Fractures in near vertical plane with lithic 15 cm horizontal dimension and paralithic; few clay films surface features on faces of peds; few fine and medium roots