IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Banaderu
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S09MP110004
  • User Pedon ID: S09MP110004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 09N0960
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24733
  • 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: 15.2644500
  • Std. Longitude: 145.7977833
  • 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: limestone and/or residuum
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • 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: 4/11/2010 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous 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

    4

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    205

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    10

    2129

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    365

    28

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    Oi—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); 2.5Y (2.5Y/), slightly decomposed plant material; 0.2 fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, coral fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-163-250 millimeter limestone, coral fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Ap—2 to 17 centimeters (0.8 to 6.7 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; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; very high horizontal penetration resistance; 5.0 very fine roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; 3 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-163-250 millimeter limestone, coral fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, coral fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N03625; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw—17 to 30 centimeters (6.7 to 11.8 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 2.5/4), very dusky red (2.5YR 2.5/2), moist; silty clay loam; 10 percent sand; 56 percent silt; 34 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky, and moderate fine single grain; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; very high horizontal penetration resistance; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-163-250 millimeter limestone, coral fragments and 3 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, coral fragments. Lab sample # 09N03626; moist when described; observed in pit, small