IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Aimeliik
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S05PW222001
  • User Pedon ID: S05PW222001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S05PW222001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 05N0418
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17861
  • 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: 7.5863472
  • Std. Longitude: 134.5863889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: South end of Ngardmau waterfall.
  • 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 #: 5201
  • 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 - 1/11/2005
  • 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: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Ara Kabesan member of the Ngeremlengui formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/11/2005 (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

    6—103

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    —97—
    Site Soil Temperature
    Site Obs. Date Depth Sensor Kind Temperature
    cm C

    1/11/2005

    50

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    26
    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

    36

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    153

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    90

    3685

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    365

    27

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    A—0 to 6 centimeters (0.0 to 2.4 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 2.5/4) broken face silt loam; 20 percent sand; 65 percent silt; 15 percent clay; strong fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 10.0 very fine dendritic tubular and 10.0 fine dendritic tubular pores; fragments; very abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bo1—6 to 26 centimeters (2.4 to 10.2 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) broken face silty clay loam; 10 percent sand; 56 percent silt; 34 percent clay; strong coarse subangular blocky, and strong medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 4.0 very fine roots throughout and 4.0 very coarse roots throughout and 4.0 fine roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 10.0 very fine dendritic tubular and 10.0 fine dendritic tubular pores; 15 percent faint red (2.5YR 4/6), moist, pressure faces on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-38-75 millimeter mixed fragments; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bo2—26 to 42 centimeters (10.2 to 16.5 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) broken face silt loam; 20 percent sand; 65 percent silt; 15 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and strong fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 very coarse roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine dendritic tubular and 10.0 fine dendritic tubular pores; fragments; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bo3—42 to 71 centimeters (16.5 to 28.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) broken face loam; 41 percent sand; 41 percent silt; 18 percent clay; strong fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine dendritic tubular and 10.0 fine dendritic tubular pores; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bo4—71 to 103 centimeters (28.0 to 40.6 inches); silty clay; 6 percent sand; 47 percent silt; 47 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky, and strong coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, very sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine dendritic tubular and 4.0 fine dendritic tubular pores; 50 percent faint red (2.5YR 4/6), moist, pressure faces on all faces of peds; fragments.; moist when described; observed in pit, small