IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dechel
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S79PB935010
  • User Pedon ID: S79PB935010
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 80P0173
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47951
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 7.3654639
  • Std. Longitude: 134.5223972
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Palau; 650 yards along main Rd SE of T intersection on main Rd and Rd leading to Nekken.
  • Map Unit: 616—Dechel silty clay, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • Country: PS—Palau
  • State: Palau
  • MLRA: 193—Volcanic Islands of Western Micronesia
  • Regional Office: SW—Southwest
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PB935—Islands of Palau, Republic of Palau

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. Smith
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, mixed, semiactive, acid, isohyperthermic Fluvaquentic Endoaquepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 10
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Dechel
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/31/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - peraquic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Dechel
  • Classificaton Date - 12/1/1979
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: dip
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Flooding: occasional flooding for brief periods
  • Ponding: frequent ponding for very long periods begining in jan
  • Wet Soil Moisture Duration: 365
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/1/1979 (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

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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 gray (5Y 4/1) interior mucky silt loam; 20 percent sand; 65 percent silt; 15 percent clay; massive; slightly sticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 80P00877. many very fine and fine roots
    10 to 28 centimeters (3.9 to 11.0 inches); olive (5Y 4/3) interior silty clay loam; 10 percent sand; 56 percent silt; 34 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 5.5 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular and 0.5 medium tubular pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 80P00878. Few small specks of bluish gray (5B 5/1) and areas of yellowish red (5YR 5/6) oxidized material surrounding pores.; common very fine and fine roots; few medium roots
    28 to 61 centimeters (11.0 to 24.0 inches); greenish gray (5GY 5/1) interior silty clay loam; 10 percent sand; 56 percent silt; 34 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular and 2.5 medium tubular pores; 37 percent olive (5Y 4/3), moist, organic stains on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P00879. Areas of yellowish red (5YR 5/6) oxidized material surrounding pores; approximately 2 percent by volume 2 to 7 mm rounded and subrounded concretions.; common organic coats surface features on faces of peds and in pores
    61 to 102 centimeters (24.0 to 40.2 inches); dark greenish gray (5GY 4/1) interior silty clay loam; 10 percent sand; 56 percent silt; 34 percent clay; massive; moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots and 2.5 medium roots; 5.5 very fine and fine tubular and 0.5 medium tubular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 80P00880. Few small specks of dark bluish gray (5B 4/1); approximately 12 percent by volume 2 to 15 mm irregular shaped, solid concretions and one 6x9 cm irregular blocky shaped solid iron concretion.; many very fine and fine roots; common medium roots
    102 to 109 centimeters (40.2 to 42.9 inches); dark greenish gray (5GY 4/1) interior very gravelly silty clay loam; 10 percent sand; 56 percent silt; 34 percent clay; massive; moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Approximately 40 percent 2 to 15 mm irregular shaped concretions and 5 percent 7.5 to 24 cm rounded and subrounded basalt cobbles.; few very fine roots
    109 to 168 centimeters (42.9 to 66.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior silty clay loam; 10 percent sand; 56 percent silt; 34 percent clay; massive; moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, hellige-truog. Approximately 2 percent 2 to 7 mm rounded and subrounded concretions.; few very fine roots