IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Guam
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 83GQ066016
  • User Pedon ID: 83GQ066016
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 84P0223
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 53917
  • Print Date: 11/22/2024

    • 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: 13.5527782
  • Std. Longitude: 144.9066620
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Guam. Northern unfarmed portion of Fred Quitigua's farm E of main farm road 100 meters from back fence line.
  • State: Guam
  • MLRA: 180—Brooks Range

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. J. Young and J. L. Demeterio
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, gibbsitic, nonacid, isohyperthermic Lithic Ustorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 16
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Guam
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Guam
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, gibbsitic, isohyperthermic Lithic Ustropept
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1983
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1983 (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
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    180

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    260

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    1A—0 to 6 centimeters (0.0 to 2.4 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) interior gravelly clay loam; moderate very fine granular structure; loose, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots and 5.5 coarse roots; 5.5 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P01169. About 10% cobbles exposed to surface.; many very fine roots; many coarse roots
    1Bo—6 to 20 centimeters (2.4 to 7.9 inches); dusky red (10R 3/4) interior gravelly clay loam; moderate very fine granular structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium and coarse roots; 5.5 very fine interstitial and 2.5 very fine tubular pores; , moist, pressure faces on faces of peds; fragments; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 84P01170. About 25 percentgravel and 5% cobbles irregularly distributed.; many very fine and fine roots; few medium and coarse roots
    1R—20 to 25 centimeters (7.9 to 9.8 inches); unweathered bedrock; fragments. Not sampled. White coralline limestone very porous many narrow fissures filled with soil material. Upper boundary ranges from 8 to 30 cm in pedon.