IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Banaderu
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S09MP110002
  • User Pedon ID: S09MP110002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 09N0958
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24731
  • 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: 15.2541833
  • Std. Longitude: 145.7966306
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: As Matuis area, N Saipan, Commonwealth of N Mariana Is. (CNMI), Laderan Tangke Nature Trail (undisturbed protected area); see PowerPoint for detailed directions
  • Map Unit: 5—Banaderu clay loam, 3 to 5 percent slopes
  • State: Northern Mariana Islands
  • County: MP110—Saipan
  • MLRA: 191—High Limestone Plateaus of the Mariana Islands
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PB645—Islands of Aguijan, Rota, Saipan and Tinian, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: RTG
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, gibbsitic, isohyperthermic Lithic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Banaderu
  • Classificaton Date - 7/13/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Banaderu
  • Classificaton Date - 4/8/2010
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: volcanic ash over limestone
  • Landscape: hills
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/8/2010 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    44 -

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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

    12

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    —

    205

    —

    110

    2129

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    365

    28

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    Oi—0 to 1 centimeters (0.0 to 0.4 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; structureless massive; 0.2 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    A1—1 to 15 centimeters (0.4 to 5.9 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2), dark reddish brown (5YR 2.5/2), moist; silty clay loam; 10 percent sand; 56 percent silt; 34 percent clay; strong very fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; low horizontal penetration resistance; 7.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 7.0 fine roots throughout; 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, coral fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N03619; observed in pit, small
    A2—15 to 28 centimeters (5.9 to 11.0 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; 10 percent sand; 56 percent silt; 34 percent clay; strong very fine subangular blocky, and strong fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; high horizontal penetration resistance; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.8 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, coral fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N03620; observed in pit, small
    Bw—28 to 44 centimeters (11.0 to 17.3 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), dark reddish brown (2.5YR 2.5/4), moist; silty clay loam; 10 percent sand; 56 percent silt; 34 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; very high horizontal penetration resistance; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, coral fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-163-250 millimeter limestone, coral fragments; very abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 09N03621; observed in pit, small
    2R—44 to 100 centimeters (17.3 to 39.4 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in pit, small