IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Troposaprist
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 96HI001001
  • User Pedon ID: 96HI001001
  • Transect:
  • Transect Stop Number - 1
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Print Date: 12/8/2025

    • 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: 19.6897300
  • Std. Longitude: -156.0334000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: In the Kaloko National Historic Park, In wetland area Northeast of the most northern pond.
  • State: Hawaii
  • County: HI001—Hawaii

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R.T. Gavenda and M.R. Kolman
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Lithic Troposaprists
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Troposaprist
  • Taxonomic Class - Lithic Troposaprists
  • Classificaton Date - 2/21/1996
  • Moisture Class - peraquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: tidal marsh
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/21/1996 (actual site observation date)
  • Microrelief Kind: microdepression
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - wetlands
  • 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

    sapric soil materials

    3—23

    —-
    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

    —

    —

    0

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    Oa—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); black (N 2/0); massive; slightly sticky, nonplastic; very slow permeability; 10.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary.; wet when described;. Botanical origin of fiber may be Kiawe. Natural vegetation is Pickleweed and Makaloa.
    2R—23 to 33 centimeters (9.1 to 13.0 inches); fragments. Hard pahoehoe lava.