IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Naalehu
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1987HI001002
  • User Pedon ID: 87HI001002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0045
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60168
  • 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: 19.0772228
  • Std. Longitude: -155.5833282
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Island of HI; 1 mi direct distance NE of Naalehu Post office in Kau Sugar Co. Field 320.
  • State: Hawaii
  • County: HI001—Hawaii

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: S. Nakamura
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Medial over hydrous, ferrihydritic, isohyperthermic Humic Haplustands
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Naalehu
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Naalehu
  • Taxonomic Class - Medial, isohyperthermic Typic Eutrandept
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1987
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1987 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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
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    402

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    1Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior and 10 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) interior, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, dry; silty clay loam; weak very fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots; 5.5 very fine and fine interstitial pores; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P00270. many very fine and fine roots
    1Bw1—25 to 48 centimeters (9.8 to 18.9 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) interior silty clay loam; weak medium and coarse prismatic, and weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; weakly smeary; 5.5 very fine and fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P00271. many very fine and fine roots
    1Bw2—48 to 79 centimeters (18.9 to 31.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) interior silty clay loam; weak medium and coarse prismatic, and weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; weakly smeary; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine and medium tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P00272. 10% dusky red weathered tuff fragments that crush to loamy sand.; common very fine and fine roots
    1Bw3—79 to 119 centimeters (31.1 to 46.9 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) interior and dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) interior silty clay loam; weak medium and coarse prismatic, and weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; weakly smeary; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine and medium tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P00273. common very fine and fine roots
    1Bw4—119 to 152 centimeters (46.9 to 59.8 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) interior silty clay loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; weakly smeary; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine and medium tubular pores; fragments. Lab sample # 88P00274. Pockets of moderate fine and very fine subangular blocky structure. 10% dusky red weathered tuff fragments that crush to loamy sand.; few very fine and fine roots