IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fagasa
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 81AS603021
  • User Pedon ID: 81AS603021
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 81P0552
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49396
  • Print Date: 12/18/2024

    • 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: -14.2911111
  • Std. Longitude: -170.7086111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Pago Pago, from main highway 2.2 miles on road to Fagasa, 100 feet upslope.
  • State: American Samoa

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: S. Nakamura
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, halloysitic, isohyperthermic Pachic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 21
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Fagasa
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fagasa
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1981
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1981 (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

    80

    —

    —

    161

    —

    635

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    1A11—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior silty clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.5 roots; 5.5 tubular pores; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P03265. many roots
    1A12—13 to 30 centimeters (5.1 to 11.8 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) interior silty clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm, very sticky, very plastic; 5.5 roots; 5.5 very fine tubular and 2.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P03266. 30 to 35 percent cobbles and stone size rock fragments.; many roots
    1Cr—30 to 73 centimeters (11.8 to 28.7 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) interior silty clay; moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; firm, very sticky, very plastic; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P03267. 60 to 80 percent moderately hard saprolite with pockets of sicly clay.
    1R—73 to 100 centimeters (28.7 to 39.4 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments. Hard saprolite.