IDENTIFIERS

Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kawaihae

OSD

Series Extent

User Site ID: 04HI603008

User Pedon ID: 04HI603008

Vegetation Plot ID: 04HI603008

Lab Information:

Certified Lab Pedon Description - no

Lab Source ID - SSL

Lab Pedon # - 93P0142

NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 65486

Print Date: 4/28/2025

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: 20.0530052

Std. Longitude: -155.8311646

Datum: WGS84

Location Description: In North Kohala, from Kawaihae Harbor drive north on Highway 270 to Honokua gulch. Pedon is located 840 meters (2,756 feet) north of the highway and 360 meters (1,181 feet) south of gulch at an elevation of 113 meters(370 feet).

State: Hawaii

County: HI001—Hawaii

MLRA: 157—Arid and Semiarid Low Mountain Slopes

Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: HI801—Island of Hawaii Area, Hawaii

7.5 Minute USGS Quad: THI0068—Kawaihae, Hawaii

PEDON

Describers Name: Mike Kolman

Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, semiactive, isohyperthermic Sodic Haplocambids

Current Taxon Kind: series

Pedon Type: OSD pedon

Pedon Purpose: full pedon description

Correlated Information:

Soil Name - Kawaihae

PSC - 25 to 84 cm.

Classificaton Date - 5/25/2012

Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition

Moisture Class - aridic (torric)

Moisture Subclass - typic

Sampled As Information:

Soil Name - Kawaihae

Classificaton Date - 9/22/2004

Dynamic Soil Properties:

Erosion Class - 1

Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no

Hydric: no

SITE

Parent Material: volcanic ash over pahoehoe lava

Landform: pahoehoe lava flow on shield volcano

Slope Complexity: complex

Slope Shape Down: convex

Runoff: low

Drainage Class: well

Flooding: none flooding

Ponding: none ponding

Bedrock: very strongly coherent slight weathered pahoehoe lava at 84cm

Geology: 250-400 Ka Pl member of the Pololu Volcanics formation.

Surface Fragments: 5.00 percent 2- to 75-millimeter 10.00 percent 250- to 750-millimeter 35.00 percent 75- to 250-millimeter

Benchmark Soil?: no

VEGETATION

SITE OBSERVATION

Observation Date: 9/22/2004 (entry creation date)

Surface Cover Properties:

Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover

Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland

Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no

Drained? - no

Bedded Soil? - no

Forest Plantation? - no

Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion gully, wind erosion

Vegetation Plot Plants
Plant Symbol	Scientific Name	National Vernacular Name	Plant Type Group	Canopy Cover %	Vegetation Stata Level
HECO10 PECI PRPA4 SICO WAIN	Heteropogon contortus Pennisetum ciliare Prosopis pallida Sida cordifolia Waltheria indica	tanglehead buffelgrass kiawe �ilima uhaloa	— — — — —	— — — — —	— — — — —

Pedon Restrictions
Kind	Hardness	Restriction Depth L-H	Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
		cm
bedrock, lithic	very strongly coherent	84 -	—

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
6	—	—	113	—	270	330	—	365	24.4	26.7	22.8	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—

A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), dark reddish brown (2.5YR 2/4), moist; very cobbly very fine sandy loam; 60 percent sand; 30 percent silt; 10 percent clay; weak very fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; nonsmeary; 10.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 10.0 very fine interstitial and 10.0 very fine irregular pores; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 250-500-750 millimeter unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume 75-163-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.1, lamotte-morgan; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P01227; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small. stones cover about 50% of the surface.

Bw—5 to 41 centimeters (2.0 to 16.1 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), moist; silt loam; 30 percent sand; 55 percent silt; 15 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; nonsmeary; 10.0 very fine and fine roots; 10.0 very fine interstitial pores; 10 percent by volume 75-163-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.1, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P01228; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small. about 10% stones by volume.

Bn1—41 to 61 centimeters (16.1 to 24.0 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), moist; loam; 40 percent sand; 40 percent silt; 20 percent clay; 10 percent gray (10YR 5/1) mottles; weak medium and coarse prismatic structure; hard, very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; nonsmeary; 10.0 very fine roots; 4.0 very fine interstitial pores; 10 percent gray (10YR 5/1) coats on faces of peds; 10 percent by volume 75-163-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.3, lamotte-morgan; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P01229; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small. about 10% stones by volume.; patchy - phpvsfiid 267691; patchy - phpvsfiid 267691

Bn2—61 to 84 centimeters (24.0 to 33.1 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), dusky red (10R 3/4), moist; cobbly loam; 40 percent sand; 40 percent silt; 20 percent clay; 25 percent gray (10YR 5/1) mottles; weak medium and coarse prismatic structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; nonsmeary; 0.5 very fine roots; 4.0 fine interstitial pores; 25 percent gray (10YR 5/1) coats on faces of peds; 30 percent by volume 75-163-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, lamotte-morgan; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P01230; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small. about 30% stones by volume.; patchy - phpvsfiid 267690; patchy - phpvsfiid 267690

2R—84 centimeters (33.1 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in pit, small