IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Aimeliik
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S05PW227001
  • User Pedon ID: S05PW227001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S05PW227001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 05N0419
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17862
  • 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: 7.5300028
  • Std. Longitude: 134.5596028
  • 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 - 1/10/2005
  • 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: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • 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: 1/10/2005 (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 - 30
    • 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

    10—100

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    —90—
    Site Soil Temperature
    Site Obs. Date Depth Sensor Kind Temperature
    cm C

    1/10/2005

    50

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    28
    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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    23

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    90

    3685

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    365

    27

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) broken face silty clay; 6 percent sand; 47 percent silt; 47 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky, and strong fine subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, very sticky, moderately plastic; 4.0 very fine roots throughout and 4.0 very fine roots between peds and 0.5 fine roots between peds and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 4.0 very fine dendritic tubular pores; 5 percent faint 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
    Bo1—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) broken face silty clay; 6 percent sand; 47 percent silt; 47 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, very sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots in cracks and 0.5 very fine roots between peds and 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 4.0 fine roots throughout and 4.0 fine roots between peds and 4.0 fine roots in cracks and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-38-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-38-75 millimeter iron-manganese nodules fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-38-75 millimeter ironstone nodules fragments; clear broken boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bo2—10 to 26 centimeters (3.9 to 10.2 inches); red (2.5YR 5/6) broken face clay; 20 percent sand; 20 percent silt; 60 percent clay; strong coarse subangular blocky, and strong medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, very sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots between peds and 0.5 very fine roots in cracks and 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 4.0 fine roots between peds and 4.0 fine roots throughout and 4.0 fine roots in cracks and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 3 percent faint red (2.5YR 4/6), moist, pressure faces on all faces of peds; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BCt—26 to 71 centimeters (10.2 to 28.0 inches); 55 percent red (2.5YR 5/6) broken face and 40 percent reddish brown (2.5YR 4/3) broken face and 5 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) broken face silty clay; 6 percent sand; 47 percent silt; 47 percent clay; weak medium columnar structure; slightly hard, friable, very sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine dendritic tubular pores; 5 percent faint reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6), moist, clay films on surfaces along root channels and 5 percent faint reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6), moist, clay films on tops of soil columns; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-38-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C2—58 to 100 centimeters (22.8 to 39.4 inches); 90 percent reddish brown (2.5YR 4/3) broken face and 10 percent red (2.5YR 5/6) broken face silty clay; 6 percent sand; 47 percent silt; 47 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, very sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine dendritic tubular pores; 1 percent faint reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6), moist, clay films on surfaces along root channels and 1 percent faint reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6), moist, clay films on tops of soil columns; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-38-75 millimeter mixed fragments; abrupt broken boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C1—71 to 100 centimeters (28.0 to 39.4 inches); 50 percent reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) broken face and 50 percent reddish yellow (5YR 6/6) broken face silty clay; 6 percent sand; 47 percent silt; 47 percent clay; weak medium columnar structure; slightly hard, friable, very sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine dendritic tubular pores; 2 percent faint reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6), moist, clay films on surfaces along root channels and 2 percent faint reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6), moist, clay films on tops of soil columns; fragments.; moist when described; observed in pit, small