Kauai;Hawaii

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Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Aerial view of dissected landscape bordering the central mountains of Kauai, known as the Garden Island, with fields of sugarcane on interfluves separating deep ravines or valleys."

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Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Aerial view of southern coast of Kauai, showing narrow coastal plain, Pali or ridge, and cane fields."

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Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "The Hanalei valley in north Kauai, approximately 8 miles west of village of Kilauea, showing mainly paddies in taro and rice but with some areas in pasture."

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Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Landscape of Humic Ferruginous Latosols in Wailua Homesteads area, Kauai. Puhi soil family on the low-lying, level section in middle distance and the Haiku soil family is in the background."

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Profile of a basalt boulder along Waimea Canyon road, Kauai. Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Weathering boulder of melitite basalt in substratum of Halii soil (a profile is shown in I100) with top of ruler 18 inches below surface. Hard, bluish, and unweathered basalt remaining is roughly 13x18 inches and next to it is soft clayey plinthite layer 4 1/4 thick, around which are concentric shells of hardened plinthite totalling 3 1/2 inch thick."

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Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Purplish dehydrated surface crusts on eroded Naiwa soil along Waimea Canyon road, Kauai."

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Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Eroded patch of Naiwa soils, Humic Ferruginous Latosols with unusually high content of titanium, along the edge of Waimea Canyon, Kauai. Formed with lava flows, the soil is thought by Don Sherman to represent the final stage of weathering for the region. Layer of maximum concentration of oxides, largely iron and titanium, is friable but not penetrable by plant roots. Spade is 2 feet long."

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Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Profile of Koolau clay, Hydrol Humic Latosol, formed partly in volcanic ash and partly in the underlying laterite, northern slope of Kauai; Plinthic Tropaquept."

Scope and Contents Profile of Podzol-like soil in Kauai, Hawaii. Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Profile of Podzol-like soil at elevation of 3500 feet on northern part of Kauai. Profile has peaty surface a few inches thick, an A1 horizon 5 inches thick, a gleyed A2 horizon, and thin hard brittle ironstone sheets at 12, 18, and 26 inches. Gleyed horizons occur between 16 and 18 inches and between 18 and 26 inches (between the ironstone sheets). Soil material is clayey and feels like...

Scope and Contents Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Rice, already headed, in paddies in valley along the southeast coast of Kauai. The little tower in the center is a place for an old man or woman to sit to ward off birds by pulling the little string extending out from the center to the corners and sides of the field. Each string is festooned with rags. Farmers are of Oriental descent." This description contains original creator-supplied description. Original descriptions may include...