IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kawaihae
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1995HI001001
  • User Pedon ID: 95HI001001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 95P0259
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 67277
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 20.0902786
  • Std. Longitude: -155.8683319
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: This pedon is along Hwy. 270 about 4.1 miles north of the gas station where the highway forks in Kawaihae. The sampling site is located at 160 feet elevation about midway between Kapole and Kamilo Streams, approximately at the boundary between the Kalala and Makiloa land divisions (ahupua'a). Pit is located along the roadcut on the upslope side of the road. We felt that in this arid zone there would be minimal edge effect that would compromise samples.
  • State: Hawaii
  • County: HI001—Hawaii
  • MLRA: 157—Arid and Semiarid Low Mountain Slopes

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Oliver Chadwick and Robert Gavenda
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, sesquic, isohyperthermic Sodic Haplocambids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Kawaihae
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kawaihae
  • Taxonomic Class - Medial, isohyperthermic Ustollic Camborthid
  • Taxon Kind - variant
  • Classificaton Date - 1/30/1995
  • Moisture SUBClass - 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: 1/30/1995 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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

    3

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    49

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    250

    180

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), brown (7.5YR 4/4), dry; extremely cobbly loam; weak very fine and fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; nonsmeary; 21.0 very fine to medium roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 60 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 95P01673
    Bw1—5 to 26 centimeters (2.0 to 10.2 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), dry; very gravelly silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; nonsmeary; 3.0 very fine to medium roots; 3.0 very fine interstitial pores; 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 95P01674
    Bw2—26 to 43 centimeters (10.2 to 16.9 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), dry; cobbly silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; nonsmeary; 3.0 very fine to medium roots; 3.0 very fine interstitial and 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 95P01675
    Bw3—43 to 60 centimeters (16.9 to 23.6 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), dry; cobbly loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; nonsmeary; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 3.0 very fine interstitial and 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 95P01676
    Bw4—60 to 90 centimeters (23.6 to 35.4 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), dry; extremely cobbly loam; massive, and weak fine subangular blocky; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; nonsmeary; 0.5 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 very fine interstitial and 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 95P01677. This horizon consists of series of thin (less than 10 cm thick), discontinuous, highly weathered pahoehoe flows or thin bands of exfoliated pahoehoe.
    Bw5—90 to 102 centimeters (35.4 to 40.2 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), dry; extremely gravelly loam; massive; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; nonsmeary; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine and medium roots; 3.0 very fine interstitial and 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 95P01678. This horizon consists of series of thin (less than 10 cm thick), discontinuous, highly weathered pahoehoe flows or thin bands of exfoliated pahoehoe.
    Bw6—102 to 115 centimeters (40.2 to 45.3 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), dry; extremely cobbly silt loam; massive; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; nonsmeary; 0.1 fine roots; 3.0 very fine interstitial and 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 95P01679. This horizon consists of series of thin (less than 10 cm thick), discontinuous, highly weathered pahoehoe flows or thin bands of exfoliated pahoehoe.
    Bk—115 to 120 centimeters (45.3 to 47.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), dry; massive; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary.
    R—120 centimeters (47.2 inches); fragments. Precipitate has patchy distribution both vertically and horizontally and extends down through all bedrock exposed in roadcut; precipitate visible in about 5-10 percent of R horizon exposed in roadcut. Additional samples of precipitate material collected in the R (but not submitted to NSSL) collected at the following depths and conditions: 170 cm, at base of fractured layers, and above massive layer; 220 cm, at base of massive basalt layer beginning at 170 cm; 300 cm, at base of fractured massive basalt layer; 350 cm, at base of roadcut.