IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Paauhau
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1987HI001004
  • User Pedon ID: 87HI001004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0047
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60170
  • 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: 20.0744438
  • Std. Longitude: -155.4261169
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Island of HI; site is south of Keahua Gulch at the SW corner of Hamakua Sugar Co. field 20140.
  • State: Hawaii
  • County: HI001—Hawaii

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: S. Nakamura
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Medial over hydrous, amorphic, isohyperthermic Typic Hydrudands
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Paauhau
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Paauhau
  • Taxonomic Class - Thixotropic, isothermic Dystrandept
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1987
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • 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: 9/1/1987 (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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    12

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    1Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dry; silty clay loam; strong very fine and fine granular, and strong medium and coarse granular structure; extremely hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine and medium roots; 5.5 interstitial pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P00282. many very fine roots; few fine and medium roots
    1Bw1—23 to 43 centimeters (9.1 to 16.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) interior silty clay loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine and medium tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P00283. many very fine and fine roots
    1Bw2—43 to 59 centimeters (16.9 to 23.2 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) interior silty clay loam; moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; weakly smeary; 5.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine and medium tubular pores; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P00284. Pockets of strong very fine and fine subangular blocky structure. Aggregates are stable when rubbed. 1% dark reddish brown weathered tuff fragments that crush to very fine sand loam.; many very fine roots; few fine roots
    1Bw3—59 to 89 centimeters (23.2 to 35.0 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) interior silty clay loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky, and moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; moderately smeary; 5.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine and medium tubular pores; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P00285. 1% dark reddish brown weathered tuff fragments that crush to very fine sandy loam.; many very fine roots; few fine roots
    1Bw4—89 to 122 centimeters (35.0 to 48.0 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) interior silty clay loam; moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; weakly smeary; 0.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine and medium tubular pores; 37 percent , moist, pressure faces; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P00286. Aggregates are stable when rubbed.; common pressure faces surface features; few very fine roots
    1Bw5—122 to 140 centimeters (48.0 to 55.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) interior silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic, and strong very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; weakly smeary; 5.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P00287. Aggregates are stable when rubbed.; many very fine roots
    2BC—140 to 165 centimeters (55.1 to 65.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior silty clay loam; strong very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; weakly smeary; 0.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments. Lab sample # 88P00288. 10% weathered gravel.; few very fine roots