IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hapuna
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1995HI001002
  • User Pedon ID: 95HI001002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1995HI001002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 95P0371
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 67389
  • 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: 19.9986115
  • Std. Longitude: -155.8163910
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: On Jack Ramos feet lease property upslope of Hapuna Beach, South Kohala, Hawaii. From Queen Ka'ahumanu Highway turn east into the Hapuna Prince Hotel and Golf Course and follow road around to just before the highway underpass. Before the underpass turn south, cross the grass and follow the golf cart path partly up the hill and then turn to the southwest to the fenceline. Follow the fenceline upslope to the short tee on the 2nd hole, cross the fence and head 55 meters at 160 degrees magnetic.
  • State: Hawaii
  • County: HI001—Hawaii
  • MLRA: 157—Arid and Semiarid Low Mountain Slopes

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: O. Chadwick and R. Gavenda
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Medial-skeletal, amorphic, isohyperthermic Petrocalcic Duritorrands
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hapuna
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hapuna
  • Taxonomic Class - Medial-skeletal, hyperthermic Lithic Calcitorrand
  • Classificaton Date - 3/11/1995
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/11/1995 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    PRPA4

    Prosopis pallida

    kiawe

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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

    0

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    82

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    240

    200

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    A—0 to 14 centimeters (0.0 to 5.5 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), dry; cobbly silt loam; weak very fine and fine subangular blocky, and weak very fine granular structure; loose, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; nonsmeary; 21.0 fine and medium roots; 0.5 very fine tubular and 21.0 very fine interstitial pores; 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P02905. 7 to 14 cm thick.
    Bw1—14 to 28 centimeters (5.5 to 11.0 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), dry; very cobbly silt loam; weak very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; loose, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; nonsmeary; 21.0 very fine and fine roots and 3.0 medium roots; 3.0 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 95P02906. 10 to 30 cm thick.
    Bw2—28 to 50 centimeters (11.0 to 19.7 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; very cobbly silt loam; weak very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; loose, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; nonsmeary; 21.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular and 21.0 very fine and fine interstitial pores; 30 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 95P02907. 15 to 22 cm thick.
    Bkm—50 to 60 centimeters (19.7 to 23.6 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; massive; 0.5 fine and medium tubular pores; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 95P02908. 8 to 25 cm thick.
    Bk—60 to 70 centimeters (23.6 to 27.6 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; extremely cobbly sand; massive; loose, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 21.0 fine and medium interstitial and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 10 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 95P02909. 5 to 20 cm thick.
    C—70 to 110 centimeters (27.6 to 43.3 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; extremely cobbly sand; massive; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 21.0 coarse interstitial pores; 20 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt irregular boundary. Horizon cannot be sampled because of contamination from Bk horizon.
    R—110 centimeters (43.3 inches); fragments.