IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kukaiau
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1982HI001002
  • User Pedon ID: 82HI001002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 82P0734
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 51521
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 20.0674992
  • Std. Longitude: -155.4502716
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: University of Hawaii Bench Mark Project Experiment Site, Kukaiau; the profile is at the SE corner of site.
  • State: Hawaii
  • County: HI001—Hawaii

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: S. Nakamura
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Hydrous, isothermic Hydric Fulvudands
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Kukaiau
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kukaiau
  • Taxonomic Class - Thixotropic, isothermic Hydric Dystrandept
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1982
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1982 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • 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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    1Ap1—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) interior silty clay loam; weak very fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P03803. few roots
    1Ap2—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) interior and dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) interior silty clay loam; weak very fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 82P03804. few roots
    1Bw1—38 to 58 centimeters (15.0 to 22.8 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) interior silty clay loam; moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately smeary; 0.5 roots; 5.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 82P03805. few roots
    1Bw2—58 to 89 centimeters (22.8 to 35.0 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) interior silty clay loam; strong very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately smeary; 0.5 roots; 5.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 82P03806. few roots
    1Bw3—89 to 117 centimeters (35.0 to 46.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) interior silty clay loam; strong very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately smeary; 0.5 roots; 5.5 very fine tubular and 2.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 82P03807. few roots
    1Bw4—117 to 152 centimeters (46.1 to 59.8 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) interior silty clay loam; strong coarse prismatic, and strong fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately smeary; 5.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 medium tubular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 82P03808