IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gagil
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 80TQ639006
  • User Pedon ID: 80TQ639006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 80P0308
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48086
  • 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: 9.5552778
  • Std. Longitude: 138.1341705
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Tomil Municipality, Yap Island. Federated States of Micronesia. 500 meters ENE up the rd from intersection of the rd
  • Country: FM—Federated States of Micronesia
  • MLRA: 193—Volcanic Islands of Western Micronesia

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Harry Sato
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, sesquic, isohyperthermic Typic Haploperox
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Gagil
  • Classificaton Date - 6/15/2007
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Yap
  • Taxonomic Class - Very-fine, halloysitic, isohyperthermic Oxic Dystr
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 4/1/1980
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • 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: 4/1/1980 (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

    15

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    180

    310

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    27

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    1A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior, brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior, dry; silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 5.5 very fine interstitial and 2.5 fine interstitial pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P01586. Few medium (7.5YR 4/4) worm casts. 1f 2% by volume fragments of primary quartz minerals.; common very fine and fine roots
    1Bt1—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior silty clay; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate fine angular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 5.5 very fine interstitial and tubular and 2.5 fine interstitial pores; 15 percent , moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P01587. Approximately 1% by volume slightly vesicular gibbsite concretions 5x10 mm in size.; few clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; common very fine and fine roots
    1Bt2—20 to 45 centimeters (7.9 to 17.7 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior silty clay; weak medium prismatic, and moderate very fine and fine angular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 5.5 very fine interstitial and tubular and 0.5 medium tubular pores; 15 percent , moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P01588. Approximatley 1% by volume slightly vesicular gibbsite concretions 5x10 mm in size. Approximately 2% by volume moderately hard saprolite 5x20 mm in size.; few clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; few very fine and fine roots
    1C—45 to 150 centimeters (17.7 to 59.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) interior and dusky red (10R 3/3) interior silty clay loam; massive; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine interstitial and 2.5 fine interstitial pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 80P01589. Specks (5Y 5/2, 10R 5/6, 10YR 5/4, 5BG 4/1); crushes to silty clay laom; massive, separates along fractures in rock structures.