IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Millhopper
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1981FL001002
  • User Pedon ID: 81FL001002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 81P0458
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49302
  • Print Date: 4/4/2025

    • 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: 29.6335831
  • Std. Longitude: -82.3665314
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: In the center of Plot III-1, Unit III of L.C. Hammond's irrigation study on Experimental Farm in Gainsville.
  • State: Florida
  • County: FL001—Alachua
  • MLRA: 154—South-Central Florida Ridge
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: L. F. Ratliff
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, siliceous, hyperthermic Grossarenic Paleudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Millhopper
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Millhopper
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, siliceous, hyperthermic Grossarenic Paleudu
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1981
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/1981 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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
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    1Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior fine sand; single grain; loose, very friable; 5.5 fine and medium roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P02630. many fine and medium roots
    1A2—23 to 112 centimeters (9.1 to 44.1 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) interior fine sand; single grain; loose, very friable; 2.5 fine and medium roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P02631. Common pockets and lenses of uncoated sand.; common fine and medium roots
    1B1—112 to 122 centimeters (44.1 to 48.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior loamy sand; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 0.5 fine and medium roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 15 percent , moist, clay films; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P02632. Sand grains coated and bridged with clay; about 3 to 5 percent by volume of reddish brown and yellowish red nodules of plinthite.; few clay films surface features; few fine and medium roots; patchy - phpvsfiid 214975; patchy - phpvsfiid 214975
    1B21t—122 to 152 centimeters (48.0 to 59.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior sandy clay loam; 30 percent reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8) medium and coarse prominent and 30 percent reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) medium and coarse prominent mottles; weak coarse platy, and weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm; brittle; 2.5 fine and medium roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; , moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P02633. Some mottles have firm centers.; common fine and medium roots; many medium and coarse prominent 7.5YR66 mottles; many medium and coarse prominent 7.5YR68 mottles; patchy - phpvsfiid 214976; patchy - phpvsfiid 214976
    1B22t—152 to 183 centimeters (59.8 to 72.0 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2) interior sandy clay loam; 30 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) medium and coarse prominent and 30 percent reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8) medium and coarse prominent mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine and medium tubular pores; , moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent iron-manganese masses; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 81P02634. Some mottles have firm centers.; few very fine soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; few fine roots; many medium and coarse prominent 7.5YR58 mottles; many medium and coarse prominent 7.5YR68 mottles; patchy - phpvsfiid 214977; patchy - phpvsfiid 214977