IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Atate
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 83GQ066011
  • User Pedon ID: 83GQ066011
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 84P0218
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 53912
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 13.3902779
  • Std. Longitude: 144.7194519
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Guam Cotal conservation area along road to Tarzan Falls trailhead about halfway from highway on E side of Rd.
  • State: Guam
  • MLRA: 181—Arctic Foothills

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. J. Young and J. L. Demeterio
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, sesquic, isohyperthermic Vertic Haplustalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 11
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Atate
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Atate
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, kaolinitic, isohyperthermic Tropeptic Eutrus
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1983
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: upland slope
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1983 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • 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

    oxic horizon

    30—140

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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

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    165

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    260

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    1A1—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) interior silty clay loam; moderate very fine granular, and moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium and coarse roots; 5.5 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P01138. common to many very fine and fine roots; few medium and coarse roots
    1A2—13 to 30 centimeters (5.1 to 11.8 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) interior silty clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and moderate very fine subangular blocky, and weak fine platy structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; , moist, pressure faces on bottoms of plates; fragments; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P01139. common very fine roots; few fine roots
    1Bo1—30 to 55 centimeters (11.8 to 21.7 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior silty clay; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; , moist, pressure faces on faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P01140. common very fine roots; few fine roots
    1Bo2—55 to 90 centimeters (21.7 to 35.4 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) interior silty clay; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; , moist, pressure faces on faces of peds; fragments; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P01141. common very fine roots; few fine roots
    1Bo3—90 to 110 centimeters (35.4 to 43.3 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) interior silty clay; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; , moist, pressure faces on faces of peds; fragments; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P01142. Less than 1% saprolitic flecks irregularly distributed.; common very fine roots
    1Bw—110 to 140 centimeters (43.3 to 55.1 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) interior silty clay; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; , moist, pressure faces on vertical faces of peds; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P01143. About 5% saprolitic sand sized flecks.; few very fine roots
    1C—140 to 165 centimeters (55.1 to 65.0 inches); dark red (10R 3/6) interior and weak red (10R 4/4) interior and red (10R 4/6) interior silty clay; weak very fine subangular blocky, and structureless massive; very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments. Lab sample # 84P01144. About 30% each remainder is yellowish red 5YR 4/6 and dark brown 7.5YR 4/6 colors in patches 3 to 5 cm in diameter. Many sand sized saprolitic flecks. Few black irregular stains possibly manganese.; few very fine roots