IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ookala
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S07HI001003
  • User Pedon ID: S07HI001003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S07HI001003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 07N0377
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19294
  • 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: 20.0265822
  • Std. Longitude: -155.3205870
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: FROM MILE MARKER 33 ON THE HAWAII BELT ROAD (HIGHWAY 19), FOLLOW THE PAVED ROAD 0.5 MILES MAKAI (TOWARD THE OCEAN). PARK AND HIKE DUE EAST TO THE SITE LOCATION AT 20 DEGREES 01 MINUTES AND 46.9 SECONDS NORT AND 155 DEGREES 19 MINUTES AND 23.9 SECONDS WEST.
  • State: Hawaii
  • County: HI001—Hawaii
  • MLRA: 159A—Humid and Very Humid Volcanic Ash Soils on Low and Intermediate Rolling Mountain Slopes
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: THI0090—Kukaiau, Hawaii

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: AMY SAUNDERS
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Medial over hydrous, amorphic, isohyperthermic Acrudoxic Hydrudands
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ookala
  • Classificaton Date - 2/2/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ookala
  • Classificaton Date - 2/16/2007
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: volcanic ash
  • Landscape: Mauna Kea shield volcano on Hawaii island
  • Landform: ash field on lava flow
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/16/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree 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

    2MOSS

    MECO10

    POLYS

    PSGU

    —

    Metrosideros collina

    Polystichum

    Psidium guajava

    Moss

    —

    hollyfern

    guava

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    andic soil properties

    0—120

    —-
    Site Soil Temperature
    Site Obs. Date Depth Sensor Kind Temperature
    cm C

    2/16/2007

    50

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    16
    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

    —

    —

    180

    —

    90

    2540

    —

    365

    21

    —

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    22

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    Ap1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) rubbed, dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/6) broken face, dry; medial silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; weakly smeary; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout; 5.0 very fine dendritic tubular pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Ap2—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) rubbed medial silty clay loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; weakly smeary; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine dendritic tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—25 to 49 centimeters (9.8 to 19.3 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) rubbed hydrous silty clay loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately smeary; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine dendritic tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw2—49 to 86 centimeters (19.3 to 33.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) rubbed hydrous silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately smeary; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine dendritic tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw3—86 to 120 centimeters (33.9 to 47.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) rubbed hydrous silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately smeary; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine dendritic tubular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat angular very weakly coherent cemented 2-45-75 millimeter basalt fragments.; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small