IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Babelthuap
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S03PW002001E
  • User Pedon ID: S03PW002001E
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 03N0417
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 15412
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 7.4386389
  • Std. Longitude: 134.5183333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Palau
  • County: PW002—Aimeliik
  • MLRA: 193—Volcanic Islands of Western Micronesia

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Robert Gavenda
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, ferruginous, isohyperthermic Typic Kandiperox
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Babelthuap
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/25/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - perudic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Babelthuap
  • Classificaton Date - 1/26/2003
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 4
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: saprolite derived from basalt over andesite over tuff breccia over bedded tuff
  • Landscape: island, upland
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Babelthaub/aimeliik formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/26/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 1053-1057
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - barren land
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - tropical
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    kandic horizon

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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

    90

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    105

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    15

    3685

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    365

    27

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    Bo1—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 2.5/4) loamy sand; 65 percent sand; 25 percent silt; 10 percent clay; strong very fine and fine granular structure; loose, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.1 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments. Lab sample # 03N02004
    Bo2—2 to 5 centimeters (0.8 to 2.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) silty clay; 6 percent sand; 47 percent silt; 47 percent clay; strong very fine granular, and strong very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; firm, very sticky, moderately plastic; 0.1 very fine and fine roots between peds; fragments. Lab sample # 03N02005
    Bo3—5 to 12 centimeters (2.0 to 4.7 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) silty clay; 6 percent sand; 47 percent silt; 47 percent clay; strong fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm, very sticky, moderately plastic; 0.1 very fine and fine roots between peds; fragments. Lab sample # 03N02006