IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Olelo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1989HI009007
  • User Pedon ID: 89HI009007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P0283
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 63330
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 21.1422215
  • Std. Longitude: -156.9591675
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Island of Molokai, Maui County, Hawaii. In Molokai Forest Reserve along Forestry Camp road 0.1 mile east of the uppermost reservoir.
  • State: Hawaii
  • County: HI009—Maui

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, semiactive, isothermic Typic Haplohumults
  • 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 #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Olelo
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Olelo
  • 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

    argillic horizon

    0—25

    36—94

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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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    18

    19

    17

    18

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    A1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2), weak red (2.5YR 4/2), dry; silty clay; strong fine and medium granular, and strong coarse granular structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.5 roots; 5.5 interstitial pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P01700. high bulk density; many ironstone fragments up to one-half inch long; many roots
    A2—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), weak red (2.5YR 4/2), dry; silty clay; massive; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P01701. high bulk density; common gravel-size ironstone fragments; few roots
    Bw—25 to 36 centimeters (9.8 to 14.2 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), dry; silty clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, very sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; 30 percent worm casts; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P01702. many worm casts concentrations; few roots
    Bt1—36 to 48 centimeters (14.2 to 18.9 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6), dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) and red (2.5YR 4/6), dry; silty clay; moderate medium platy, and moderate thick platy, and moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 roots; 37 percent faint clay films; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P01703. at the bottom of this horizon is very thin (1/3 inch) layer of soft material developing into an ironstone sheet; common clay films surface features; few roots
    Bt2—48 to 94 centimeters (18.9 to 37.0 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6), dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), dry; silty clay; strong very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 roots; 5.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; distinct clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P01704. some very fine aggregates persist as hard earthy lumps and break down after prolonged rubbing; few roots; continuous - phpvsfiid 226466; continuous - phpvsfiid 226466
    C—94 to 152 centimeters (37.0 to 59.8 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) and dark brown (7.5YR 3/3); dark red (2.5YR 3/6), moist, coats; fragments. Lab sample # 91P01705. highly weathered basic igneous rock; this has the original rock structure but breaks down to silty clay and silty clay loam that is smeary; some gray material present that appears like halloysite; patchy - phpvsfiid 226467; patchy - phpvsfiid 226467