IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kahanui
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1989HI009006
  • User Pedon ID: 89HI009006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P0282
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 63329
  • 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: 21.1444435
  • Std. Longitude: -156.9558258
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Island of Molokai, Maui County, Hawaii. In the Forest Reserve, along Meyer Lake Road 0.4 mile northwest of intersection of the Forestry Camp Road and Meyer Lake Road. The site is approximately 50 feet south of the road.
  • State: Hawaii
  • County: HI009—Maui

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy over clayey, sesquic, isothermic Typic Placorthods
  • 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 #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Kahanui
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kahanui
  • Classificaton Date - 12/1/1989
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Runoff: low
  • 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

    umbric epipedon

    0—38

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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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    178

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    18

    19

    17

    18

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments. undecomposed leaves and twigs
    A1—3 to 11 centimeters (1.2 to 4.3 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), gray (10YR 5/1), dry; gravelly silty clay; strong very fine and fine granular, and strong medium and coarse granular structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.5 roots; 5.5 interstitial pores; 11 percent worm casts; fragments; slight effervescence, by hydrogen peroxide, unspecified; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P01695. many ironstone concretions up to 1/2 inch long; many glistening specks; moderately high bulk density; common worm casts concentrations; many roots
    A2—11 to 41 centimeters (4.3 to 16.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; gravelly silty clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 roots; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence, by hydrogen peroxide, unspecified; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P01696. many ironstone fragments up to 1/4 inch long; very high bulk density; few roots
    Bo—41 to 56 centimeters (16.1 to 22.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), dry; silty clay; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P01697. common elongated ironstone fragments up to 1 inch long embedded horizontally throughout the horizon; few roots
    Bsm—56 to 67 centimeters (22.0 to 26.4 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), dry; clay; moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 roots; 5.5 very fine tubular and 2.5 fine and medium tubular pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P01698. at the top of this horizon there is a weakly developed ironstone sheet that is impermeable to roots and water except for cracks; few roots
    C1—67 to 79 centimeters (26.4 to 31.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) and brown (7.5YR 5/2) and gray (N 6/0) clay; brown (7.5YR 4/4) mottles; hard, firm, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; moderately smeary; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 91P01699. soft weathered andesite; this has some original rock structure that breaks down into clay
    C2—79 to 155 centimeters (31.1 to 61.0 inches); dark gray (5YR 4/1) and reddish brown (5YR 4/3) and yellowish red (5YR 4/6) silt loam; hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately smeary; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog. soft weathered andesite