IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Makaopuhi
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2018HI001015
  • User Pedon ID: S2018HI001015
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 18N2293
  • User Project ID: PUUM_020_NEON
  • Project Name: Pu'u Maka'ala Natural Area Reserve
  • Print Date: 12/9/2025

    • 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: 19.5609200
  • Std. Longitude: -155.2497100
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 613—Kiloa extremely cobbly highly decomposed plant material, 3 to 10 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Hawaii
  • County: HI001—Hawaii
  • MLRA: 162—Humid and Very Humid Organic Soils on Lava Flows
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: HI801—Island of Hawaii Area, Hawaii
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: THI0092—Kulani, Hawaii

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Mike Kolman
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Medial, ferrihydritic, isothermic Lithic Hapludands
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Makaopuhi
  • PSC - 0 to 50 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/8/2018
  • Classifier - Mike Kolman
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - perudic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kopua
  • Taxonomic Class - Hydrous, ferrihydritic, isothermic Lithic Hydrudands
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 0 to 50 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/29/2018
  • Classifier - Mike Kolman
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - perudic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: basic volcanic ash
  • Landscape: MAUNA LOA shield volcano
  • Landform: ash field on lava flow
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 4.00 percent nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 5- to 20-millimeter cinders,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • RaCA Site ID - PUUM_015
  • DSP Plot ID - SW
  • Plot Baseline Azimuth - 234
  • Plot Baseline Length - 10
  • Plot Width - 20
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - CENTER OF PIT
  • Plot or Site Recorder - MIKE KOLMAN

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/19/2018 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: MIKE KOLMAN, ED TALLYN
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - tropical
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Kind of Land: nongrazable woodland understory
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    sapric soil materials

    umbric epipedon

    andic soil properties

    0—5

    5—30

    5—30

    —5—

    —25—

    —25—
    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

    —

    —

    1208.5

    —

    134

    4587

    —

    365

    16.5

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    Oa—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark brown (7.5YR 2.5/2) highly decomposed plant material; massive; few medium roots and common fine roots; many very fine vesicular and many fine vesicular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 18N05232; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    A—5 to 30 centimeters (2.0 to 11.8 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) highly organic medial silt loam; 25 percent clay; strong fine granular structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; weakly smeary; few very coarse roots and few medium roots and few fine roots; many very fine interstitial pores; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-3-5 millimeter cinders fragments and 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 5-15-20 millimeter cinders fragments. Lab sample # 18N05233; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket