IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Peleliu
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S06PW150002
  • User Pedon ID: S06PW150002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 07N0083
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19144
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 7.2229278
  • Std. Longitude: 134.3697111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 647—Peleliu-Chelbacheb-Rock outcrop complex, 50 to 150 percent slopes
  • Country: PS—Palau
  • State: Palau
  • MLRA: 194—Low Limestone Islands of Western Micronesia
  • Regional Office: SW—Southwest
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PB935—Islands of Palau, Republic of Palau

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Joe Seney
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey-skeletal, carbonatic, isohyperthermic Lithic Haprendolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Peleliu
  • PSC - 0 to 27 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - perudic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Peleliu
  • Classificaton Date - 9/12/2006
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: organic material over residuum weathered from limestone
  • Landscape: island, karst
  • Landform: karst valley, karst cone, karst tower
  • Microfeature: karren
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent limestone, unspecified
  • Geology: Peleiu Limestone formation of the Peleiu Limestone group.
  • Surface Fragments: 10.00 percent nonflat angular very strongly coherent cemented 2- to 75-millimeter limestone, unspecified, 10.00 percent nonflat angular very strongly coherent cemented 250- to 600-millimeter limestone, unspecified, 5.00 percent nonflat angular very strongly coherent cemented 600- to 1200-millimeter limestone, unspecified, 50.00 percent nonflat angular very strongly coherent cemented 75- to 250-millimeter limestone, unspecified,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/12/2006 (entry creation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • 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
  • Yield Study ID -
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    strongly coherent

    27 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    lithic contact

    0—27

    27—47

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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

    85

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    —

    7

    —

    90

    3685

    —

    365

    27

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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) broken face, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) broken face, dry; extremely cobbly silt loam; 20 percent sand; 65 percent silt; 15 percent clay; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 4.0 very fine roots in cracks and 1.0 very coarse roots in cracks and 8.0 medium roots in cracks and 8.0 fine roots in cracks and 2.0 coarse roots in cracks; 4.0 very fine tubular and 2.0 medium tubular and 2.0 fine tubular and 4.0 coarse tubular pores; 10 percent by volume nonflat angular very strongly coherent cemented 250-425-600 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat angular very strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 60 percent by volume nonflat angular very strongly coherent cemented 75-163-250 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, pH indicator strip; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 07N00529; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BA—15 to 27 centimeters (5.9 to 10.6 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face, dry; extremely cobbly silty clay loam; 10 percent sand; 56 percent silt; 34 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.0 very fine roots in cracks and 1.0 very coarse roots in cracks and 4.0 medium roots in cracks and 4.0 fine roots in cracks and 2.0 coarse roots in cracks; 4.0 very fine tubular and 1.0 very coarse tubular and 2.0 medium tubular and 2.0 fine tubular and 1.0 coarse tubular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat angular very strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat angular very strongly coherent cemented 250-425-600 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 65 percent by volume nonflat angular very strongly coherent cemented 75-163-250 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, pH indicator strip; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 07N00530; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    R—27 to 47 centimeters (10.6 to 18.5 inches); 10YR (10YR/), broken face bedrock; fragments.; moist when described; observed in pit, small