IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kukaiau
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: Kukuihaele SCAN Site #2097
  • User Pedon ID: S05HI001002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: Kukuihaele SCAN Site #209
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 05N0574
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17582
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 20.0954971
  • Std. Longitude: -155.5086365
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Hawaii
  • County: HI001—Hawaii

    • PEDON

  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kukaiau
  • Classificaton Date - 2/11/2005
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: volcanic ash over `a`a
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Bedrock: basalt
  • Surface Fragments: 15.00 percent 2
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/11/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    MIMOS

    PACO14

    URMA3

    Mimosa

    Paspalum conjugatum

    Urochloa maxima

    sensitive plant

    hilograss

    guineagrass

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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

    15

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    5

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    2097

    Kukuihaele

    SCAN
    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) gravelly hydrous loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine roots; 1.0 very fine tubular and 1.0 very fine tubular and 1.0 fine tubular pores; 15 percent by volume weakly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N03349
    Bw1—10 to 66 centimeters (3.9 to 26.0 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) hydrous cobbly silty clay loam; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 very fine roots; 10 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N03350
    Bw2—66 to 110 centimeters (26.0 to 43.3 inches); black (10YR 2/1) hydrous cobbly silty clay loam; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 very fine roots; 10 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume weakly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume weakly coherent cemented 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 05N03351