IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Smyrna
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990FL101003
  • User Pedon ID: 90FL101003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P0246
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 63293
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 28.2866669
  • Std. Longitude: -82.4988861
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Pasco County, Florida 27mi S of FL52 on US41, 0.6mi W of highway, 50 feet N of mining pond
  • State: Florida
  • County: FL101—Pasco
  • MLRA: 154—South-Central Florida Ridge
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Warren Henderson, Kevin Sullivan, and Paul Pilney
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy, siliceous, hyperthermic Aeric Alaquods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Smyrna
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - aeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Smyrna
  • Taxonomic Class - Sandy, siliceous, hyperthermic Aeric Haplaquod
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/1990
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: playa or alluvial flat
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/1/1990 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    spodic horizon

    spodic horizon

    0—36

    36—86

    173—218

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    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

    1

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    22

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    132

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) fine sand; weak fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P01536
    E—13 to 23 centimeters (5.1 to 9.1 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) fine sand; single grain; loose; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P01537
    EB—23 to 28 centimeters (9.1 to 11.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) fine sand; single grain; loose; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P01538. many decaying roots in EB
    Bh1—28 to 36 centimeters (11.0 to 14.2 inches); very dark gray (5YR 3/1) fine sand; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P01539
    Bh2—36 to 48 centimeters (14.2 to 18.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) fine sand; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P01540
    Bw—48 to 79 centimeters (18.9 to 31.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) fine sand; single grain; loose; 0.5 fine roots throughout; fragments. Lab sample # 91P01541. Streaks of (10YR 3/3) organics in the Bw; few fine roots throughout
    E—86 to 173 centimeters (33.9 to 68.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) fine sand; 11 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) medium faint mottles; fragments. Lab sample # 91P01542. common medium faint 10YR44 mottles
    Bh—173 to 203 centimeters (68.1 to 79.9 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 91P01543