IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kona
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990HI001003
  • User Pedon ID: 90HI001003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 90P1103
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 63036
  • 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: 19.4283333
  • Std. Longitude: -155.8772278
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Sheila Archibald farm, approximately 250 feet E, upslope of house, Honaunau Quad.
  • State: Hawaii
  • County: HI001—Hawaii

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy-skeletal, mixed, isothermic Haplic Ustarents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Kona
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kona
  • Taxonomic Class - Euic, isothermic Lithic Tropofolist
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1990
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/1990 (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

    18

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    433

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    Oa1—0 to 7 centimeters (0.0 to 2.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1) muck; strong very fine subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 5.5 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P06809. and 90P6810 and 90P6811 and 90P6812; common very fine and fine roots
    Oa2—7 to 25 centimeters (2.8 to 9.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1) gravelly muck; strong very fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, hellige-truog; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 90P06813. and 90P6814 and 90P6815 and 90P6816; common very fine roots
    R—25 to 50 centimeters (9.8 to 19.7 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 90P06811, 90P06812, 90P06814, 90P06815, 90P06816, 90P06810. pahoehoe lava