IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Babelthuap
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S03PW002001G
  • User Pedon ID: S03PW002001G
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 03N0419
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 15414
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 7.4553056
  • 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
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • 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)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    kandic horizon

    ochric epipedon

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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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    186

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    3685

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    365

    27

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    ; fragments.