IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Paia
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1965HI009018
  • User Pedon ID: S1965HI009018
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1965HI009018
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A5606
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42849
  • Print Date: 1/30/2025

    • 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: 20.8944435
  • Std. Longitude: -156.3638916
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Paia Quadrangle. A pit located 15 meters (50 feet) south of Kaheka Road and 90 meters (300 feet) southeast of Sunny Side and Kahaka Road intersection in field 205 of Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar Company plantation about 2.1 km (1.3 miles) southeast of Paia.
  • State: Hawaii
  • County: HI009—Maui
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: HI980—Island of Maui, Hawaii

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. G. Stephens and L. D. Giese
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 18
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Paia
  • Classificaton Date - 4/12/1965
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/12/1965 (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

    PRPA4

    SACCH

    WAIN

    Prosopis pallida

    Saccharum

    Waltheria indica

    kiawe

    sugarcane

    uhaloa

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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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    125

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    813

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    22.8

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    Ap1—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay; cloddy parts to weak fine granular structure; hard when dry, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 fine roots; 21.0 pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hydrogen peroxide, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A42055
    Ap2—23 to 63 centimeters (9.1 to 24.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) clay; massive parts to fine and medium granular; hard when dry, friable, very sticky, very plastic; 21.0 roots; 21.0 pores; 30 percent black stains; fragments; violent effervescence, by hydrogen peroxide, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A42056
    B21—63 to 98 centimeters (24.8 to 38.6 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 fine and medium roots; 21.0 pores; 4 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hydrogen peroxide, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A42057
    B22—98 to 148 centimeters (38.6 to 58.3 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) silty clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 fine roots; 21.0 pores; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A42058
    B3—148 to 175 centimeters (58.3 to 68.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) silty clay; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 coarse roots; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A42059
    C—175 to 188 centimeters (68.9 to 74.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) silty clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; weakly smeary; 21.0 pores; ; fragments. Lab sample # 40A42060. patchy - phpvsfiid 190690; patchy - phpvsfiid 190690