IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Babelthuap
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S79PB935002
  • User Pedon ID: S79PB935002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 80P0009
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47239
  • 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: 7.3716333
  • Std. Longitude: 134.5382250
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Palau; 3013 feet E and 1176 feet S of SE corner of Ngerimel Reservoir Dam.

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. Smith, N. Babik, S. Shiro
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, ferruginous, isohyperthermic Typic Kandiperox
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Babelthuap
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/25/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - perudic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Babelthuap
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1979
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 4
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1979 (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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    kandic horizon

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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

    10

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    0

    370

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    27

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    0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) interior, brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior, dry; very gravelly loam; 41 percent sand; 41 percent silt; 18 percent clay; strong very fine and fine granular structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 5.5 very fine and fine interstitial and 2.5 tubular pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 80P00034. Approx. 50% gr. sized frag. in A1 (ferritic and gibbsitic) and approx. 80% surface gr. (irregular, platy vesicular) pores in some conc. filled w/ opal. Surface gr. is Fe stone (platy) and irr. ves. ferritic gibbsite pendants and conc. Covere; common very fine and fine roots
    10 to 28 centimeters (3.9 to 11.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) interior silty clay; 6 percent sand; 47 percent silt; 47 percent clay; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky, and moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 2.5 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; distinct , moist, pressure faces; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P00035. Approx. 6% gravel size ironstone irregular blocky 7 mm-3 cm, exposed cut shows strong structure.; common very fine and fine roots; few medium roots
    28 to 64 centimeters (11.0 to 25.2 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) interior and yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior silty clay; 6 percent sand; 47 percent silt; 47 percent clay; moderate medium and coarse angular blocky, and moderate very fine and fine angular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; 15 percent faint , moist, pressure faces in root channels and/or pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # 80P00036. (7.5YR 4/6) coatings on ped faces.; few pressure faces surface features in root channels and/or pores; few very fine and fine roots
    64 to 117 centimeters (25.2 to 46.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/6) interior silty clay loam; 10 percent sand; 56 percent silt; 34 percent clay; moderate fine angular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 2.5 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular and 0.5 very fine tubular pores; strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, coats on faces of peds and 15 percent prominent , moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 80P00037. (7.5YR 6/0) numerous specks, some areas specks dominate, others matrix dominates, 5% gibbsite and iron concretions 4 mmx1.5 cm gibbsite pendant, irregular vescicular iron concretions 1-1.5 cm, roots follow fracture plains.; few clay films surface features on faces of peds; few very fine roots