IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Paaloa
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1958HI003002
  • User Pedon ID: S1958HI003002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1958HI003002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A5621
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42864
  • Print Date: 4/24/2025

    • 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: 21.4904633
  • Std. Longitude: -157.9922333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Island of Oahu, Honolulu County, Hawaii. Located in the east range of Schofield Barracks. Sample site is located 15 meters (50 feet) north of road to Ku Tree reservoir about 9.6 km (6 miles) east of intersection with Highway 99 which is located at northern boundary of Leilehua Gold Course.
  • State: Hawaii
  • County: HI003—Honolulu

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, ferruginous, isothermic Typic Kandiudox
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Paaloa
  • Classificaton Date - 6/15/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - PAALOA
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1958
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: narrow medial slope upland
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1958 (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

    ACHY

    ACKO

    PACO14

    Achnatherum hymenoides

    Acacia koa

    Paspalum conjugatum

    Indian ricegrass

    koa

    hilograss

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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

    1

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    330

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    225

    2125

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    21.1

    22.8

    19.4

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) silty clay; strong medium granular structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial and 21.0 fine interstitial pores; 3 percent worm casts; fragments; slight effervescence; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A42158
    B21—20 to 60 centimeters (7.9 to 23.6 inches); dusky red (10R 3/4) silty clay; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 21.0 roots; 21.0 very fine tubular and 21.0 fine tubular pores; 1 percent worm casts; fragments; noneffervescent; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A42159
    B22—60 to 110 centimeters (23.6 to 43.3 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) silty clay; strong very fine subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 0.5 roots top of horizon; 21.0 very fine tubular and 21.0 fine tubular pores; 10 percent dusky red (10R 3/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A42160. continuous - phpvsfiid 204969; continuous - phpvsfiid 204969
    B31—110 to 180 centimeters (43.3 to 70.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) silty clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, very plastic; 0.5 roots; 21.0 very fine tubular and 21.0 fine tubular pores; 10 percent clay films on all faces of peds and 10 percent clay films on surfaces along pores; fragments; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A42161. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 204970; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 204971; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 204970; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 204971
    C—180 to 210 centimeters (70.9 to 82.7 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; firm, very sticky, very plastic; 21.0 very fine tubular and 21.0 fine tubular pores; 10 percent clay films on all faces of peds and 10 percent clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH meter. Lab sample # 40A42162. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 204972; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 204973; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 204972; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 204973