IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Okeelanta
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1974FL611004
  • User Pedon ID: 1974FL611004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - UFL
  • Lab Pedon # - S50_006
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 37687
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 26.8878059
  • Std. Longitude: -80.5687866
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T41S
  • Range: R38E
  • Section: 19
  • PLSS Details: NE 1/4, SW 1/4, SE 1/4
  • Location Description: 2-3/4 miles east of US 441 and 4-3/4 miles north of US 98;
  • Map Unit: 21—Okeelanta muck, drained, frequently ponded, 0 to 1 percent slopes24—Okeelanta muck, drained, frequently ponded, 0 to 1 percent slopes
  • State: Florida
  • County: FL099—Palm Beach
  • MLRA: 156A—Florida Everglades and Associated Areas
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: FL606—Broward County, Florida, East PartFL611—Palm Beach County Area, Florida
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 26080-H5—Port Mayaca, Florida

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: S. H. McCollum, L. T. Stain, SCS, and V. W. Carlisle, W. G. Pothier, FAES.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy or sandy-skeletal, siliceous, euic, hyperthermic Terric Haplosaprists
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Okeelanta
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/23/2014
  • Classifier - Prink
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: herbaceous organic material and/or sandy marine deposits
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: depression on marine terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: dip
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: frequent ponding for very long periods begining in jul
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/23/2014 (entry creation date)
  • Data Collector: Prink
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - marshland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    sapric soil materials

    aquic conditions

    0—79

    0—165

    —79—

    —165—
    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

    0.5

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    —

    5

    —

    1467

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    360

    23

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    Oap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); black (N 2/0), N 4/1 (N 4/1), dry; muck; weak fine and medium granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; nonfluid; many (10.0) fine roots throughout; many (10.0) fine irregular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # FL5000601
    Oa—15 to 79 centimeters (5.9 to 31.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 2/2) muck; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; deformable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # FL5000602
    Cg1—79 to 140 centimeters (31.1 to 55.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) fine sand; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; nonfluid; fragments; neutral, pH 6.9; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # FL5000603
    Cg2—140 to 165 centimeters (55.1 to 65.0 inches);, light gray (10YR 7/2), dry; fine sand; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; nonfluid; 3 percent by volume nonflat subrounded weakly coherent cemented 2-4-5 millimeter shell fragments fragments observed by visual inspection method; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6. Lab sample # FL5000604