IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Molokai
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1989HI003001
  • User Pedon ID: 89HI003001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 89P0652
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61752
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 21.3886108
  • Std. Longitude: -158.0391693
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Island of Oahu, Hawaii. HSPA Kunia Substation, northern corner of field G, site 7P (see plot map)
  • State: Hawaii
  • County: HI003—Honolulu

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: S. Nakamura
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, kaolinitic, isohyperthermic Rhodic Eutrustox
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Molokai
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Molokai
  • Taxonomic Class - Very-fine, kaolinitic, isohyperthermic Typic Eutro
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1989
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1989 (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

    4

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    76

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    270

    71

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    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), dry; sandy clay loam; weak very fine granular structure; slightly hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular and 5.5 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 89P03661. structure has many 2 to 15cm clods from tillage; few fine roots; common very fine roots
    Bo1—10 to 33 centimeters (3.9 to 13.0 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) sandy clay loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P03662. few very fine roots
    Bo2—33 to 56 centimeters (13.0 to 22.0 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) clay loam; strong very fine subangular blocky structure; very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; 37 percent , moist, manganese or iron-manganese stains on faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P03663. few soft manganese concretions and organic matter stains in roots channels; initially gritty feeling due to aggregate stability; compact in place; common manganese or iron-manganese stains surface features on faces of peds; few very fine roots
    Bo3—56 to 84 centimeters (22.0 to 33.1 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) sandy clay loam; strong very fine subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P03664. many 2 to 15cm clods from tillage; initially gritty feeling due to aggregate stability; many shiny pressure faces; compact in place; few very fine roots
    Bo4—84 to 119 centimeters (33.1 to 46.9 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) sandy clay loam; moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky, and strong very fine subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments. Lab sample # 89P03665. silty clay loam grades to silty clay upon working; 5% highly weathered small gravel size saprolite pieces, 10YR 5/6 and 2.5YR 2.5/4 internal with rind of 2.5YR 3/6; few very fine roots