IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Paaloa
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1965HI003001
  • User Pedon ID: S1965HI003001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1965HI003001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A5650
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42893
  • 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: 21.6005554
  • Std. Longitude: -158.0249939
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Island of Oahu, Honolulu County, Hawaii. Waialua Agricultural Company, from Kawailoa Camp, 6.7 km (4.15 miles) toward the mountains on Kawailoa Road to the intersection of Pupukea Road that turns south; thence on Kawailoa Road 1.5 km (50 feet) west of road.
  • State: Hawaii
  • County: HI003—Honolulu

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, sesquic, isothermic Humic Rhodic Kandiudox
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Paaloa
  • Classificaton Date - 6/15/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - PAALOA
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1965
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: gently sloping to sloping upland
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1965 (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

    ACKO

    SACCH

    Acacia koa

    Saccharum

    koa

    sugarcane

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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

    4

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    360

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    1750

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    21

    23

    19

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    Ap—0 to 43 centimeters (0.0 to 16.9 inches); 50 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) and 50 percent dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/3), 50 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) and 50 percent dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), dry; silty clay; strong fine subangular blocky, and strong very fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 roots; 0.5 very fine interstitial and 0.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular and 0.5 fine interstitial pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A42329
    B21t—43 to 63 centimeters (16.9 to 24.8 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), dark red (2.5YR 3/6), dry; silty clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; 3.0 fine tubular pores; dusky red (10R 3/4), moist, clay films on surfaces along pores and clay films on faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A42330. continuous - phpvsfiid 205420; continuous - phpvsfiid 205420
    B22t—63 to 90 centimeters (24.8 to 35.4 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), dry; silty clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 21.0 medium tubular and 21.0 fine tubular pores; dark red (10R 3/6), moist, clay films on surfaces along pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A42331. continuous - phpvsfiid 205418; continuous - phpvsfiid 205418
    B23t—90 to 113 centimeters (35.4 to 44.5 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), dark red (2.5YR 3/6), dry; clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; dark red (10R 3/6), moist, clay films on surfaces along pores and clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A42332. continuous - phpvsfiid 205415; patchy - phpvsfiid 205416; continuous - phpvsfiid 205415; patchy - phpvsfiid 205416
    B24t—113 to 150 centimeters (44.5 to 59.1 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), dark red (2.5YR 3/6), dry; silty clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 3.0 tubular pores; dark red (10R 3/6), moist, clay films on surfaces along pores and clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7. Lab sample # 40A42333. continuous - phpvsfiid 205414; patchy - phpvsfiid 205417; continuous - phpvsfiid 205414; patchy - phpvsfiid 205417