IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Leilehua
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1989HI003014
  • User Pedon ID: 89HI003014
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P0286
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 63333
  • 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: 21.4511108
  • Std. Longitude: -158.0441742
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Island of Oahu. Waiawa Correctional Facility. Approximately 2 miles E of Mililani Cemetery. Waipahu Quadrangle.
  • State: Hawaii
  • County: HI003—Honolulu

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: H.H. Sato and H. Ikawa
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, mixed, isothermic Humic Rhodic Kandiudox
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 14
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Leilehua
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Leilehua
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey, oxidic, isothermic Typic Kanhaplohumult
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1989
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/1989 (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
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    A1—0 to 30 centimeters (0.0 to 11.8 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2), brown (7.5YR 4/2), dry; silty clay; strong very fine and fine granular structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots; 5.5 very fine and fine interstitial pores; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P01716. many very fine and fine roots
    B1—30 to 46 centimeters (11.8 to 18.1 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), dry; silty clay; weak medium prismatic, and strong fine and medium subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots around fragments; 2.5 very fine and fine pores; dark red (2.5YR 3/6) clay films on faces of peds; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P01717. clay films are also in root channels; sugar-like material when dry; many very fine and fine roots matted around stones
    B2—46 to 84 centimeters (18.1 to 33.1 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), dark reddish brown (2.5YR 2/4), dry; silty clay loam; strong very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine pores; dusky red (10R 3/4) clay films on faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P01718. clay films are also in root channels; few very fine roots; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 226478; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 226478
    B3—84 to 107 centimeters (33.1 to 42.1 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), dark reddish brown (2.5YR 2/4), dry; clay loam; strong very fine and fine subangular blocky, and strong medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 very fine pores; dusky red (10R 3/4) clay films on faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P01719. clay films are also in root channels; few fine roots; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 226479; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 226479
    B4—107 to 130 centimeters (42.1 to 51.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and brown (7.5YR 4/3) silty clay; strong fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine pores; dark red (10R 3/6), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P01720. few saprolite fragments (less than 5 percent); clay films are also around saprolite fragments
    C—130 to 191 centimeters (51.2 to 75.2 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) silty clay; strong fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine pores; prominent dark red (10R 3/6), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # 91P01721. about 25 percent saprolite fragments; clay films are also around saprolite fragments; continuous - phpvsfiid 226481; continuous - phpvsfiid 226481