IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Puapua
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 81AS603003
  • User Pedon ID: 81AS603003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 81P0546
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49390
  • Print Date: 4/27/2025

    • 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: -14.3538889
  • Std. Longitude: -170.7705556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: One mile west southwest of Futinga in Taro-breadfruit plantation.
  • State: American Samoa
  • MLRA: 197—Volcanic Islands of American Samoa

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: S. Nakamura
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Medial, amorphic, isohyperthermic Lithic Hapludands
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Puapua
  • Classificaton Date - 6/15/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Puapua
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1981
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • 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: 9/1/1981 (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

    20

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    31

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    380

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    1Ap—0 to 28 centimeters (0.0 to 11.0 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior clay loam; strong very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.5 roots; 5.5 tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P03241. Few tuff fragments, less than 3 percent.; many roots
    1C—28 to 41 centimeters (11.0 to 16.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) interior sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; loose, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 2.5 roots; 5.5 tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P03242. Thin layer consists of fragments of volcanic tuff.; common roots
    2R—41 to 102 centimeters (16.1 to 40.2 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # 81P03243. Fine grained very hard tuff.