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Fig. 2. Map showing the distribution of major soil associations and miscellaneous land types of the Palau 
Islands. High limestone islands and others that are not inhabited and consist of a single miscellaneous land type 
are not shown. Angaur and Peleliu, which are at the south end of the chain, are shown by inset maps. 
laneous land types, with one exception— 
Shioya sand, a soil type. 
Each soil association consists of one or 
more geographic areas with a restricted com- 
bination of soil types occurring together in a 
characteristic and repeating pattern. The in- 
dividual soil types in each association have 
not been described and identified, however, as 
they would be in detailed surveys. The com- 
ponent soils in each association are classified 
into great soil groups or suborders. 4 Each 
association is then named for the dominant 
great soil group or suborder. The associations 
are described by listing the component soils 
4 The classification system followed in this paper is 
the one outlined by Baldwin, Kellogg, and Thorp 
(1938) as modified in a group of papers in Soil Science , 
Vol. 67, No. 2, February 1949, with two exceptions. 
The term and concept of "Latosol” as proposed by 
Kellogg (1949) are used. The term "Organic Soils” is 
used as a substitute for "Bog Soils.” 
