IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Akina
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 83GQ066004
  • User Pedon ID: 83GQ066004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 84P0211
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 53905
  • 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 erosional bank on the Ija Experiment Station.
  • State: Guam
  • MLRA: 181—Arctic Foothills

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. J. Young J. L. Demeterio
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, parasesquic, isohyperthermic Vertic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Akina
  • Classificaton Date - 6/18/2007
  • 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: upland
  • 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

    4—45

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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 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) interior silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots; 5.5 fine interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P01098. Many fine vertical cracks. Strong very fine granular structure on the surface.; many very fine and fine roots
    1Bo—4 to 18 centimeters (1.6 to 7.1 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) interior silty clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; 15 percent , moist, clay films on faces of peds and 15 percent , moist, clay films in root channels and/or pores and 37 percent , moist, pressure faces on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P01099. Ped faces are dark reddish brown 2.5YR 3/4. Common fine continuous vertical cracks.; few clay films surface features on faces of peds; few clay films surface features in root channels and/or pores; common pressure faces surface features on faces of peds; many very fine roots
    1Bw—18 to 45 centimeters (7.1 to 17.7 inches); dusky red (10R 3/4) interior silty clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 5.5 fine interstitial and tubular pores; 37 percent , moist, pressure faces on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, hellige-truog; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P01100. Ped faces are dark reddish brown 2.5YR 3/4. Common fine continuous vertical cracks with yellowish red 5YR 4/6 faces containing many very fine roots. Few very fine saprolitic flecks increasing with depth.; common pressure faces surface features on faces of peds; common very fine roots; few fine roots
    1C1—45 to 80 centimeters (17.7 to 31.5 inches); dark red (10R 3/6) interior and red (2.5YR 4/8) interior and pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2) interior silty clay loam; massive; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, hellige-truog; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P01101. Saprolitic tuff composed of sand and fine gravel sized flecks of variable color. Occasional angled joint of bedding plane present. Few fine continuous vertical cracks from Bw horizon.; few very fine roots
    1C2—80 to 120 centimeters (31.5 to 47.2 inches); dark red (10R 3/6) interior and red (2.5YR 4/8) interior and pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2) interior silty clay loam; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular and 0.5 medium tubular pores; 5YR 4/8 (5YR 4/8), moist, clay films in root channels and/or pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, hellige-truog; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P01102. Saprolitic tuff as described above. Occasional angled joint or bedding plane present.; few very fine roots; continuous - phpvsfiid 229851; continuous - phpvsfiid 229851
    1C3—120 to 150 centimeters (47.2 to 59.1 inches); silty clay loam; fragments. Lab sample # 84P01103. Like above but with fewer clay skins in pores. Separated for sampling purposes.