IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Akina
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 83GQ066003
  • User Pedon ID: 83GQ066003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 84P0210
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 53904
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 13.2741671
  • Std. Longitude: 144.7138824
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Guam Adjacent to an erosional bank on the Ija Experiment Station NW of pedon S83GU066004
  • State: Guam
  • MLRA: 181—Arctic Foothills

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. J. Young J. L. Demeterio
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, kaolinitic, isohyperthermic Inceptic Hapludox
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Akina
  • Classificaton Date - 6/15/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Akina
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, kaolinitic, isohyperthermic Oxic Ustropept
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1983
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plateaus or tablelands
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1983 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    cambic horizon

    10—60

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    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

    4

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    95

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    90

    260

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    1A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots; 5.5 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P01090. 2 cm surface layer is moderate fine and very fine granular.; many very fine and fine roots
    1Bo1—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) interior silty clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine interstitial and 2.5 very fine tubular pores; dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), moist, coats on faces of peds and , moist, clay films on faces of peds and 55 percent , moist, pressure faces on faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P01091. many pressure faces surface features on faces of peds; many very fine roots
    1Bo2—20 to 40 centimeters (7.9 to 15.7 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) interior silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine interstitial and tubular and 2.5 very fine tubular pores; 15 percent , moist, pressure faces in root channels and/or pores and 15 percent , moist, clay films on faces of peds and 55 percent , moist, pressure faces on faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P01092. Common dark reddish brown 2.5YR 3/4 ped faces.; few pressure faces surface features in root channels and/or pores; few clay films surface features on faces of peds; many pressure faces surface features on faces of peds; common very fine roots; patchy - phpvsfiid 229843; patchy - phpvsfiid 229844; patchy - phpvsfiid 229843; patchy - phpvsfiid 229844
    1Bw—40 to 60 centimeters (15.7 to 23.6 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) interior silty clay; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; 55 percent , moist, pressure faces on faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P01093. Possibly some clay skins. About 10% fine gravel or firm gravel sized saprolite pale yellow 2.5YR 7/4 with reddish yellow 7.5YR 6/8 stains.; many pressure faces surface features on faces of peds; common very fine roots
    1Bw/C—60 to 110 centimeters (23.6 to 43.3 inches); 50 percent dark red (2.5YR 3/6) interior and 50 percent light reddish brown (2.5YR 7/4) interior silty clay; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P01094. About half reticuluate joints and bedding planes with rock structure.; few very fine roots
    1C—110 to 152 centimeters (43.3 to 59.8 inches); silty clay loam; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular and 2.5 interstitial pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 84P01095. Saprolite about half is dusky red 10R 3/6 in coarse blocks and half as white 2.5Y 8/2 in a reticulate pattern along joints and bedding planes. Rock structure. Many 5YR 5/8 clay skins in very fine pores and along plane faces of the white mate; few very fine roots