IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dechel
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 07FM060001
  • User Pedon ID: S2007FM060001
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - 06PB935001
  • Transect Stop Number - 1
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 07N0304
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18931
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 9.5569448
  • Std. Longitude: 138.1288910
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Taro patch owned by Mr. Pius Liyagel, near Dugor village
  • Map Unit: 500—Dechel mucky silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • Country: FM—Federated States of Micronesia
  • State: Federated States of Micronesia
  • MLRA: 193—Volcanic Islands of Western Micronesia
  • Regional Office: SW—Southwest
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PB934—Islands of Yap, Federated States of Micronesia

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jason Nemecek
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, mixed, semiactive, acid, isohyperthermic Fluvaquentic Endoaquepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 6001
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Dechel
  • Taxonomic Class - Very-fine, mixed, semiactive, acid, isohyperthermic Fluvaquentic Endoaquepts
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/14/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium derived from volcanic breccia
  • Landscape: island
  • Landform: swamp, valley
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: dip
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Ponding: frequent ponding for very long periods
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/14/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Water Depth: 18
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - close-grown crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    aquic conditions

    reduced matrix

    redox concentrations

    0—8

    0—20

    8—20

    8—20

    —-

    —12—

    —12—

    —12—
    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

    0

    123

    —

    7

    —

    0

    —

    —

    0

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1) silty clay loam; 56 percent sand; 34 percent silt; 10 percent clay; structureless massive; friable, nonsticky, moderately plastic; low excavation difficulty; 10 percent medium prominent irregular reddish yellow (5YR 6/8), moist, iron-manganese masses on surfaces along root channels and 90 percent extremely coarse distinct irregular olive gray (5Y 5/2), moist, reduced matrix in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N01672; observed in shovel slice
    Bg—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); 5GY 4/ (5GY 4/), silty clay loam; 33 percent sand; 35 percent silt; 33 percent clay; structureless massive; firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; medium distinct threadlike noncoherent cemented reduced matrix with sharp boundaries in matrix; fragments. Lab sample # 07N01673; observed in shovel slice