IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Banaderu
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S09MP110003
  • User Pedon ID: S09MP110003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 09N0959
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24732
  • 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: 15.2526500
  • Std. Longitude: 145.7977861
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Laderan Tangke Nature Trail 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 - 4/11/2010
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum over limestone
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 15.00 percent nonflat subangular indurated 2- to 75-millimeter limestone, unspecified, 25.00 percent nonflat subangular indurated 250- to 600-millimeter metamorphic, unspecified, 10.00 percent nonflat subangular indurated 75- to 250-millimeter metamorphic, unspecified,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/11/2010 (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
    • 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

    2

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    205

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    10

    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; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, coral fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-163-250 millimeter limestone, coral fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 250-425-600 millimeter limestone, coral fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A1—1 to 11 centimeters (0.4 to 4.3 inches); dusky red (2.5YR 3/2), very dusky red (2.5YR 2.5/2), moist; silty clay loam; 10 percent sand; 56 percent silt; 34 percent clay; strong very fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; low horizontal penetration resistance; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, coral fragments and 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-163-250 millimeter limestone, coral fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N03622; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A2—11 to 19 centimeters (4.3 to 7.5 inches); dusky red (2.5YR 3/2), dusky red (2.5YR 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; 10 percent sand; 56 percent silt; 34 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; high horizontal penetration resistance; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, coral fragments and 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-163-250 millimeter limestone, coral fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N03623; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw—19 to 30 centimeters (7.5 to 11.8 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist; silty clay loam; 10 percent sand; 56 percent silt; 34 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; very high horizontal penetration resistance; fragments. Lab sample # 09N03624; moist when described; observed in pit, small