IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): KAIWIKI
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2007HI001001
  • User Pedon ID: S2007HI001001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2007HI001001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 07N0375
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19292
  • Print Date: 4/21/2025

    • 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: 19.9085312
  • Std. Longitude: -155.1916199
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: FROM WAIKAUMALO PARK AT THE HALF WAY POINT BETWEEN MILE MARKER 18 AND 19 ALONG HAWAII BELT ROAD (HIGHWAY 19) FOLLOW PIHA-KAHUKU ROAD MAUKA APPROXIMATELY 2.75 MILES TO THE SITE LOCATION AT 19 DEGREES 54 MINUTES AND 41.9 SECONDS NORT AND 155 DEGREES 11 MINUTES AND 39.6 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: THI0129—Papaaloa, Hawaii

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: AMY SAUNDERS
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Hydrous, ferrihydritic, isothermic Acrudoxic Hydrudands
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - KAIWIKI
  • Classificaton Date - 6/19/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - perudic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - KAIWIKI
  • Classificaton Date - 2/13/2007
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey volcanic ash
  • Landform: lava flow on shield volcano
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/13/2007 (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

    EUCAL

    MECO10

    PSGU

    —

    Eucalyptus

    Metrosideros collina

    Psidium guajava

    Moss

    gum

    —

    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

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

    2/13/2007

    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

    —

    —

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    457

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    4064

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    365

    16

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    17

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    A—0 to 16 centimeters (0.0 to 6.3 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) rubbed hydrous silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; strongly smeary; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine dendritic tubular and 3.0 fine dendritic tubular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular very weakly coherent cemented 2-45-75 millimeter basalt fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N01916; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw—16 to 46 centimeters (6.3 to 18.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) rubbed hydrous silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; strongly smeary; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine dendritic tubular and 0.5 medium dendritic tubular pores; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular very weakly coherent cemented 2-45-75 millimeter basalt fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N01917; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw2—46 to 85 centimeters (18.1 to 33.5 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) rubbed hydrous silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; strongly smeary; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine dendritic tubular and 0.5 medium dendritic tubular pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N01918; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw3—85 to 120 centimeters (33.5 to 47.2 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) rubbed hydrous silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; strongly smeary; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine dendritic tubular pores; fragments. Lab sample # 07N01919; moist when described; observed in pit, small