IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Peleliu
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S79PB935008
  • User Pedon ID: S79PB935008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 80P0175
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47953
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 6.9988167
  • Std. Longitude: 134.2506361
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Palau; 2110 feet W of the SW end of Honeymoon beach then 100 feet S of the main road.
  • MLRA: 195—Volcanic Islands of Central and Eastern Micronesia

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. Smith
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey-skeletal, carbonatic, isohyperthermic Lithic Haprendolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Peleliu
  • PSC - 0 to 30 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/30/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - perudic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Peleliu
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/1979
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: organic material over residuum weathered from limestone
  • Landscape: island, karst
  • Landform: karst valley, karst cone, karst tower
  • Microfeature: karren
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent limestone, unspecified
  • Geology: Peleiu Limestone formation of the Peleiu Limestone group.
  • 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

    75

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    3685

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    365

    27

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    0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, dry; very gravelly silt loam; 20 percent sand; 65 percent silt; 15 percent clay; moderate very fine and fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots and 5.5 medium and coarse roots; 5.5 very fine and fine interstitial pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.1, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Common thin organic stains coating gravel and cobbles; contains approximately 35 percent gravel and 30 percent cobble sized fragments of coralline limestone.; many very fine and fine roots; many medium and coarse roots
    1 to 0 centimeters (0.4 to 0.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1) interior, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior, dry; undecomposed organic matter; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Undecomposed leaf litter and twigs.
    13 to 30 centimeters (5.1 to 11.8 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) interior very gravelly loam; 41 percent sand; 41 percent silt; 18 percent clay; moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 80P00884. Common thin to moderately thick clay films and organic stains coating gravel and cobbles; approximately 35 percent gravel and 25 percent cobble sized fragments of coralline limestone.; many very fine and fine roots; few coarse roots
    30 to 56 centimeters (11.8 to 22.0 inches); white (10YR 8/1) interior weathered bedrock; massive; fragments. Material is hard coralline; crystal structure apparent in freshly exposed face. (Fractures in rock assumed to be present but none were observed. Other areas exhibit fractures that are 10 cm or more apart.)