IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ngerungor
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S80PB935004
  • User Pedon ID: S80PB935004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 81P0020
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48320
  • Print Date: 1/27/2025

    • 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: 7.0071500
  • Std. Longitude: 134.2398222
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Moen Island, Truk State, about 570 paces W of Nantaku Church on old road and 11 paces S of coconut tree.

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. Smith
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy or sandy-skeletal, carbonatic, isohyperthermic Terric Haplosaprists
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ngerungor
  • PSC - 0 to 130 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/30/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ngerungor
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1980
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: raised, coraline island
  • Landform: depression, raised, coraline atoll
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: frequent ponding for very long periods begining in jan
  • Wet Soil Moisture Duration: 365
  • Geology: Calcareous Sand formation of the Calcareous Sand group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1980 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop 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

    sapric soil materials

    hemic soil materials

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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

    1

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    3685

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    365

    27

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    0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1) interior mucky peat; massive; nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 5.5 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P00123. 52% unrubbed fiber content, 32% rubbed; (10YR 7/3) color by pyrophosphate test.; many very fine and fine roots; few medium roots
    5 to 72 centimeters (2.0 to 28.3 inches); black (10YR 2/1) interior mucky peat; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 5.5 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P00124. 76% unrubbed fiber content, 52% rubbed; (10YR 4/3) color by pyrophosphate test.; common very fine and fine roots; few medium roots
    72 to 117 centimeters (28.3 to 46.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) interior mucky peat; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 5.5 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P00125. 68% unrubbed fiber content, 37% rubbed; (10YR 7/2) color by pyrophosphate test.; few very fine and fine roots; few medium roots
    117 to 155 centimeters (46.1 to 61.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1) interior mucky peat; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 5.5 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P00126. 60% unrubbed fiber content, 209% rubbed; (7.5YR 7/2) color by pyrophosphate test.; few very fine and fine roots; few medium roots
    155 to 160 centimeters (61.0 to 63.0 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) interior and light gray (10YR 7/2) interior and very pale brown (10YR 7/4) interior mucky sand; 90 percent sand; 6 percent silt; 6 percent clay; massive; nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular and 5.5 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 7.1, hellige-truog. few very fine and fine roots