IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Waiakoa
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1965HI009019
  • User Pedon ID: S1965HI009019
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1965HI009019
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A5613
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42856
  • Print Date: 2/20/2025

    • 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: 20.7999992
  • Std. Longitude: -156.4305573
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Puu O Kali Quadrangle. A pit located 60 meters (200 feet) west of sugarcane field number 812 of Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar Company plantation.
  • State: Hawaii
  • County: HI009—Maui

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. G. Stephens and L. D. Giese
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 19
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Waiakoa
  • Classificaton Date - 4/14/1965
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/14/1965 (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

    CHVI4

    PRPA4

    WAIN

    ZINNI

    Chloris virgata

    Prosopis pallida

    Waltheria indica

    Zinnia

    feather fingergrass

    kiawe

    uhaloa

    zinnia

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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

    5

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    104

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    270

    381

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    24.4

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    A1—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) silt loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; hard when dry, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 roots; 21.0 very fine and fine pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hydrogen peroxide, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A42105
    B21—20 to 40 centimeters (7.9 to 15.7 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 roots; 21.0 pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hydrogen peroxide, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A42106
    2B22—40 to 60 centimeters (15.7 to 23.6 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) silty clay loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; weakly smeary; 21.0 roots; 21.0 fine and medium pores; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A42107
    2C—60 to 80 centimeters (23.6 to 31.5 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay loam; massive; hard when dry, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; 21.0 pores; fragments. Lab sample # 40A42108