IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Biscayne
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 85FL025002-copied
  • User Pedon ID: 85FL025002-copied
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0677
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 56943
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Richard Alger Test Field.
  • Map Unit: 13@—Biscayne marl
  • State: Florida
  • County: FL086—Miami-Dade
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: FL686—Miami-Dade County Area, Florida

    • PEDON

  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Biscayne
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1985
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/1985 (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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    1A p—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior silt loam, marl; moderate granular structure; slightly sticky, nonplastic; 2.5 fine and medium roots; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P3491. Common sand small snail shell fragments.; common fine and medium roots
    1C—18 to 38 centimeters (7.1 to 15.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior silt loam, marl; moderate angular blocky structure; slightly sticky, nonplastic; 2.5 fine and medium roots; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P3492. Common fine (10YR 7/2) pockets of soft CaCO3; few fine and medium (10YR 5/4 and 5/8) streaks and pockets.; common fine and medium roots
    1O—38 to 51 centimeters (15.0 to 20.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) interior Error; massive; nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 85P3493. Confined to solution holes greater than 2 inches in depth.
    2C—51 to 76 centimeters (20.1 to 29.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior silty clay loam; moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments. Horizon confined to solution holes greater than 2 inches in depth; unable to sample this horizon due to high water table
    1R—76 to 89 centimeters (29.9 to 35.0 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments. Texture is oolithic limestone.