IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Maile
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1991HI001010
  • User Pedon ID: 91HI001010
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 92P0261
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 64500
  • Print Date: 1/31/2025

    • 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: 19.8402786
  • Std. Longitude: -155.3105621
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Island of Hawaii, ENE side of Mauna Kea in Hakalau Nat. Wildlife Refuge. From NW corner gate of Pedro Parcel, 100 paces 107 degrees, then 188 paces 105 degrees and finally 156 paces 97 degrees in wooded area adjacent to open pasture.
  • State: Hawaii
  • County: HI001—Hawaii
  • MLRA: 159—Humid and Very Humid Low and Intermediate Mountain Slopes

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. Smith, P. Malaspina, and P. Scowcroft
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Hydrous, amorphic, isomesic Acrudoxic Hapludands
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 10
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Maile
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/18/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Piihonua
  • Classificaton Date - 1/31/1991
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/31/1991 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other tree cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    umbric epipedon

    andic soil properties

    0—0

    0—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

    30

    —

    —

    1676

    —

    40

    2286

    —

    —

    —

    13.3

    10

    —

    17.2

    13.3

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    —

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    USFS Hakalau 1

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) mucky* silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; nonsmeary; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 3.0 medium roots; 0.5 very fine vesicular pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P01719
    Bw1—10 to 28 centimeters (3.9 to 11.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; weakly smeary; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 3.0 medium and coarse roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P01720
    Bw2—28 to 56 centimeters (11.0 to 22.0 inches); 80 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) and 20 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; weakly smeary; 3.0 medium and coarse roots and 0.5 fine roots; 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P01721
    C1—56 to 79 centimeters (22.0 to 31.1 inches); 60 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) and 30 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) and 10 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 21.0 medium tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P01722
    C2—79 to 114 centimeters (31.1 to 44.9 inches); 45 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) and 45 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3) and 10 percent black (10YR 2/1) silt loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; weakly smeary; 0.5 fine roots; 3.0 medium tubular and 21.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P01723
    2C—114 to 140 centimeters (44.9 to 55.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and yellowish red (5YR 4/6) silt loam; massive; strongly cemented; brittle; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 92P01724