IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kahua
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2003HI001006
  • User Pedon ID: 03HI001006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 03N0909
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 15971
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 20.0710583
  • Std. Longitude: -155.7253876
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: wet pit in pasture; Topo Quad: Kamuela; Slope Shape: (up/across) plane
  • State: Hawaii

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C.J.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Ferrihydritic, isothermic Acrudoxic Hydric Hapludands
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kahua
  • Taxonomic Class - Ferrihydritic, isothermic Acrudoxic Hydric Hapludands
  • Classificaton Date - 7/9/2003
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: dust over ash over residium
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: basalt at 124cm with 45 to <100
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/9/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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

    14

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    1469

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    220

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    A—0 to 9 centimeters (0.0 to 3.5 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) silt loam, muck; moderate fine granular structure; very friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 6.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 2.0 fine irregular pores; 30 percent medium faint irregular dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, iron depletions; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N04674; observed in pit, small
    2Bw1—9 to 22 centimeters (3.5 to 8.7 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) silty clay loam; moderate fine granular structure; very friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 6.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 6.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N04675; observed in pit, small
    2Bw2—22 to 40 centimeters (8.7 to 15.7 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 6.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 6.0 very fine tubular pores; 15 percent by volume unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N04676; observed in pit, small
    2Bw3—40 to 79 centimeters (15.7 to 31.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 2.0 fine tubular pores; 25 percent by volume unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N04677; observed in pit, small
    2Bw4—79 to 124 centimeters (31.1 to 48.8 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 2.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 15 percent by volume unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N04678; observed in pit, small
    4R—124 centimeters (48.8 inches); fragments.; observed in pit, small