IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Aimeliik
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S03PW002007
  • User Pedon ID: S03PW002007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 03N0707
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16162
  • Print Date: 6/2/2024

    • 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: 7.4320111
  • Std. Longitude: 134.5232083
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Palau
  • County: PW002—Aimeliik

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Gavenda
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, halloysitic, isohyperthermic Humic Haploperox
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Aimeliik
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/30/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - perudic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Aimeliik
  • Classificaton Date - 4/23/2003
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • 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: very high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Aimeliik formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/23/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - tropical
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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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    118

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    3685

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    365

    27

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    A1—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silty clay; 6 percent sand; 47 percent silt; 47 percent clay; strong very fine subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout and 0.1 very coarse roots throughout and 2.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and fine dendritic tubular pores; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N03406
    A2—3 to 16 centimeters (1.2 to 6.3 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay; 6 percent sand; 47 percent silt; 47 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.0 very fine and fine roots throughout and 2.0 very coarse roots throughout and 2.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and fine dendritic tubular pores; 2 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay films on rock fragments; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N03407. patchy - phpvsfiid 348780; patchy - phpvsfiid 348780
    B1—16 to 29 centimeters (6.3 to 11.4 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) clay; 20 percent sand; 20 percent silt; 60 percent clay; moderate coarse angular blocky structure; firm, very sticky, very plastic; 2.0 very fine and fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout; 2.0 very fine dendritic tubular pores; 5 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay films on bottom faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N03408. patchy - phpvsfiid 348781; patchy - phpvsfiid 348781
    B2—29 to 53 centimeters (11.4 to 20.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) clay; 20 percent sand; 20 percent silt; 60 percent clay; moderate coarse angular blocky structure; firm, very sticky, very plastic; 2.0 very fine and fine roots throughout and 0.1 medium roots throughout; 1.0 very fine dendritic tubular pores; faint brown (10YR 4/3) clay films on all faces of peds; medium prominent irregular 10YR 4/8 (10YR 4/8) iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments. Lab sample # 03N03409. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 348782; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 348782