IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Aimeliik
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S79PB935003
  • User Pedon ID: S79PB935003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 80P0146
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47375
  • 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: 7.3926917
  • Std. Longitude: 134.5307528
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Palau; 2 mi N of the road to the Ngerimel reservoir, on the road to Nekken then about 300 feet N of the road.
  • MLRA: 195—Volcanic Islands of Central and Eastern Micronesia

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. Smith and N. Babik
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, halloysitic, isohyperthermic Humic Haploperox
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Aimeliik
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/30/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - perudic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Aimeliik
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/1979
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: saprolite derived from basalt over andesite over tuff breccia over bedded tuff
  • Landscape: island, upland
  • Landform: hill
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Aimeliik formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/1/1979 (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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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

    35

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    3685

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    365

    27

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    0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior silt loam; 20 percent sand; 65 percent silt; 15 percent clay; strong fine and medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 2.5 medium and coarse roots; 2.5 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P00749. common very fine roots; common medium and coarse roots
    10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; 10 percent sand; 56 percent silt; 34 percent clay; strong very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 2.5 medium and coarse roots; 2.5 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular and 2.5 medium interstitial and tubular pores; 37 percent faint , moist, oxide coats on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 80P00750. Common dark brown (10YR 3/3) worm casts filling many fine and medium tubular pores.; common oxide coats surface features on faces of peds and in pores; common very fine roots; common medium and coarse roots
    20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) interior silty clay; 6 percent sand; 47 percent silt; 47 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky, and moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots and 0.5 medium and coarse roots; 2.5 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular and 2.5 medium interstitial and tubular pores; faint , moist, oxide coats on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P00751. Common dark brown (10YR 3/3) worm casts filling many fine and medium tubular pores.; few very fine roots; few medium and coarse roots; continuous - phpvsfiid 345262; continuous - phpvsfiid 345262
    38 to 61 centimeters (15.0 to 24.0 inches); 70 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) interior and 30 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior silty clay; 6 percent sand; 47 percent silt; 47 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky, and moderate very fine and fine angular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 2.5 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular and 2.5 medium interstitial and tubular pores; faint , moist, oxide coats on faces of peds and in pores and 15 percent faint 7.5YR 2/0 (7.5YR 2/0), moist, manganese or iron-manganese stains on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P00752. Common dark brown (10YR 3/3) worm casts filling many fine and medium tubular pores.; few manganese or iron-manganese stains surface features on faces of peds; few very fine and fine roots; few medium roots; continuous - phpvsfiid 345263; continuous - phpvsfiid 345263
    61 to 76 centimeters (24.0 to 29.9 inches); 60 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior and 40 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) interior silty clay; 6 percent sand; 47 percent silt; 47 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky, and moderate very fine and fine angular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 2.5 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular and 2.5 medium interstitial and tubular pores; faint , moist, oxide coats on faces of peds and in pores and 15 percent faint 7.5YR 2/0 (7.5YR 2/0), moist, manganese or iron-manganese stains on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P00753. Common dark brown (10YR 3/3) worm casts filling many fine and medium tubular pores.; few manganese or iron-manganese stains surface features on faces of peds; few very fine and fine roots; few medium roots; continuous - phpvsfiid 345265; continuous - phpvsfiid 345265
    76 to 86 centimeters (29.9 to 33.9 inches); 60 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior and 40 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) interior silty clay loam; 10 percent sand; 56 percent silt; 34 percent clay; moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 5.5 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular and 2.5 medium interstitial and tubular pores; 15 percent faint 7.5YR 2/0 (7.5YR 2/0), moist, manganese or iron-manganese stains on faces of peds and 37 percent faint , moist, oxide coats on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P00754. Contains about 15% by volume mixed yellowish red (5YR 4/6) and dusky red (10R 3/3) saprolite with a crushed texture of silty clay loam. Also contains brown (7.5YR 4/4), weak red (10R 5/2) and white (5Y 8/2) saprolite material as specks or a; common oxide coats surface features on faces of peds and in pores; few manganese or iron-manganese stains surface features on faces of peds; few very fine and fine roots; few medium roots
    86 to 130 centimeters (33.9 to 51.2 inches); 40 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior and 30 percent dusky red (10R 3/3) interior weathered bedrock; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots and 0.5 medium and coarse roots; 5.5 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular and 2.5 medium interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 80P00755. Highly weathered saproliteic volcanic tuff crushing easily to silty clay loam, specks of white (5Y 5/2) and streaks and blotches of brown (75.YR 4/4) and weak red (10R 5/2), roots within interior of peds and following fracture faces.; few very fine roots; few medium and coarse roots