IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Millhopper
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1981FL001003
  • User Pedon ID: 81FL001003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 81P0459
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49303
  • 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: 29.6335831
  • Std. Longitude: -82.3665314
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Center of Plot II-1, Unit II 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 #: 3
  • 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
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • 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; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P02635. Many roots in upper 10 cm; common below.; many fine and medium roots
    1A21—23 to 132 centimeters (9.1 to 52.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior fine sand; 1 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) fine faint mottles; single grain; loose, very friable; 0.5 fine roots; 1 percent iron-manganese masses; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P02636. Few lenses of uncoated sand-percentage increases with depth.; few very fine soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; few fine roots; few fine faint 10YR64 mottles
    1A22—132 to 163 centimeters (52.0 to 64.2 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior fine sand; single grain; loose, very friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P02637. Few fine (less thatn 2 mm) yellowish brown lammella; common pockets and lenses of uncoated sand.; few fine roots
    1B21t—163 to 193 centimeters (64.2 to 76.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior and pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior sandy loam; slightly hard, friable; brittle; , moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent iron-manganese masses; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P02638. Estimated 5% by volume of yellowish red plinthite nodules mostly at upper boundary.; few soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; patchy - phpvsfiid 214978; patchy - phpvsfiid 214978
    1B22t—193 to 244 centimeters (76.0 to 96.1 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior and light gray (10YR 7/2) interior sandy clay loam; 1 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/8) medium prominent and 11 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium and coarse prominent and 11 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) medium and coarse prominent mottles; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; , moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 81P02639. Yellowish red mottles have firm centers.; common medium and coarse prominent 7.5YR56 mottles; common medium and coarse prominent 7.5YR58 mottles; few medium prominent 5YR58 mottles; patchy - phpvsfiid 214979; patchy - phpvsfiid 214979