IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Aimeliik
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S05PW212001
  • User Pedon ID: S05PW212001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S05PW212001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 05N0416
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17859
  • 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: 7.4961472
  • Std. Longitude: 134.6291000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Across road (east) from Melekeok cemetery.
  • Country: PS—Palau
  • State: Palau
  • MLRA: 193—Volcanic Islands of Western Micronesia
  • Regional Office: SW—Southwest
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PB935—Islands of Palau, Republic of Palau

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Bob Gavenda
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, halloysitic, isohyperthermic Humic Haploperox
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 5001
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Aimeliik
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/19/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - perudic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Aimeliik
  • Classificaton Date - 1/12/2005
  • 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
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: crest
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Ngarsul member of the Aimeliik formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/12/2005 (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
  • Current Weather - partly cloudy
  • Current Air Temp - 28
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    CYAU

    Cyrtomium auriculatum

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    oxic horizon

    0—18

    14—90

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    —76—
    Site Soil Temperature
    Site Obs. Date Depth Sensor Kind Temperature
    cm C

    1/12/2005

    50

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    27
    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

    10

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    27

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    30

    3685

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    365

    27

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    Oa—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); reddish gray (2.5YR 5/1) broken face muck; strong very fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 4.0 medium roots throughout and 4.0 fine roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 10.0 fine dendritic tubular pores; fragments; very abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A—4 to 14 centimeters (1.6 to 5.5 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) broken face silty clay; 6 percent sand; 47 percent silt; 47 percent clay; strong very fine granular, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 4.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 4.0 fine dendritic tubular pores; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw—14 to 35 centimeters (5.5 to 13.8 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) broken face silty clay; 6 percent sand; 47 percent silt; 47 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 4.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 4.0 fine dendritic tubular pores; 30 percent distinct reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), moist, pressure faces on all faces of peds; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BCt—35 to 90 centimeters (13.8 to 35.4 inches); 50 percent reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) broken face and 30 percent red (2.5YR 4/8) broken face and 15 percent dark reddish gray (2.5YR 3/1) broken face and 5 percent light reddish gray (2.5YR 7/1) broken face loam; 41 percent sand; 41 percent silt; 18 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 4.0 medium dendritic tubular and 4.0 fine dendritic tubular pores; 15 percent faint red (2.5YR 4/8), moist, pressure faces on all faces of peds and 20 percent distinct reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 20 percent distinct reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on surfaces along pores and 30 percent distinct light reddish gray (2.5YR 7/1), moist, clay films on surfaces along pores and 30 percent distinct light reddish gray (2.5YR 7/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments.; moist when described; observed in pit, small