IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Koloa
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1989HI007002
  • User Pedon ID: 89HI007002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P0273
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 63320
  • Print Date: 4/23/2025

    • 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: 21.8850002
  • Std. Longitude: -159.4375000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Island of Kauai, Kauai County, Hawaii.
  • State: Hawaii
  • County: HI007—Kauai

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active, isohyperthermic Typic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Koloa
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Koloa
  • Classificaton Date - 12/1/1989
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/1/1989 (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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    oxic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—33

    18—51

    51—0

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    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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    127

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    23

    26

    22

    23

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); weak red (2.5YR 4/2), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist; stony silty clay; strong very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.5 roots; 15 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hydrogen peroxide, unspecified; slightly acid, pH 6.1, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P01651. many roots
    Bo1—18 to 33 centimeters (7.1 to 13.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/3) and dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), moist; stony silty clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 roots; 2.5 fine pores; 15 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hydrogen peroxide, unspecified; neutral, pH 6.7, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P01652. patchy glaze on peds; some highly weathered pebbles; common roots
    Bo2—33 to 51 centimeters (13.0 to 20.1 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6), dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), moist; stony silty clay; weak very fine and fine subangular blocky, and strong very fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 roots; 5.5 fine pores; 25 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence, by hydrogen peroxide, unspecified; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 91P01653. continuous pressure cutans; many highly weathered pebbles, black coating inside pebbles; common roots
    R—51 centimeters (20.1 inches); fragments. hard pahoehoe rock with thin weathered crust; vesicles in rock have black coatings that effervesce with hydrogen peroxide