IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Goldhead
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985-FL007-S04_001
  • User Pedon ID: S1985-FL007-S04_001
  • User Site Association ID: SDJR MLRA 153A 3-RHI Pelham Pelham wet fs
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - UFL
  • Lab Pedon # - S04_001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 39041
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024
  • 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: 30.0470524
  • Std. Longitude: -82.1779633
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T5S
  • Range: R21E
  • Section: 23
  • PLSS Details: NW 1/4, SW 1/4
  • Location Description: Bradford County, FL; 0.7 mi north of CR 225, 0.5 mi west of Rt 16; NW 1/4, SW 1/4, Sec.23, T5S, R21E.
  • Map Unit: 23—Pelham complex, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • State: Florida
  • County: FL007—Bradford
  • MLRA: 153A—Atlantic Coast Flatwoods
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-RHI—Richmond Hill, Georgia
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: FL007—Bradford County, Florida
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 30082-A2—Raiford, Florida
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. Sodek (IFAS), E.W. Hopwood (IFAS), D. Dearstyne, Darrell E. Leach, K. Sullivan
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, siliceous, active, thermic Aeric Endoaqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Goldhead
  • Classificaton Date - 5/8/2014
  • Classifier - Charles Lagoueyte
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Pelham
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, siliceous, thermic Arenic Paleaquults
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/24/1985
  • Classifier - Sodek, Hopwood, Dearstyne, Leach, Sullivan
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - second edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 3


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy marine deposits and/or sandy marine deposits
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: flat on Sunderland/Okeefenokee marine terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: talf
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Sunderland/okeefenokee formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/24/1985 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    ochric epipedon

    albic horizon

    aquic conditions

    argillic horizon

    0—65

    20—65

    20—203

    68—168

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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

    40.2

    1603

    266

    20

    Glen St. Mary Nursery

    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) fine sand; 88 percent sand; 10 percent silt; 3 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable; Ksat of 28 um/s; moderately rapid permeability; many (5.0) fine roots throughout; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # FL0400101; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    E1—20 to 43 centimeters (7.9 to 16.9 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) fine sand; 90 percent sand; 8 percent silt; 2 percent clay; 5 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1) medium distinct mottles; structureless single grain; loose; Ksat of 28 um/s; moderately rapid permeability; many (5.0) fine roots throughout; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # FL0400102; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    E2—43 to 65 centimeters (16.9 to 25.6 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) fine sand; 94 percent sand; 5 percent silt; 1 percent clay; structureless single grain; loose; Ksat of 28 um/s; moderately rapid permeability; few (0.5) fine roots throughout; 1 percent prominent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # FL0400103; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    EB—65 to 68 centimeters (25.6 to 26.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) fine sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # FL0400104; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Btg1—68 to 86 centimeters (26.8 to 33.9 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) fine sandy loam; 72 percent sand; 12 percent silt; 17 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; Ksat of 0.91 um/s; slow permeability; 5 percent medium prominent red (10R 4/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout and 20 percent fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout and 20 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # FL0400105; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Btg2—86 to 130 centimeters (33.9 to 51.2 inches); gray (5Y 6/1) sandy clay loam; 62 percent sand; 6 percent silt; 33 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; Ksat of 0.91 um/s; slow permeability; clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent medium prominent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout and 5 percent coarse prominent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout and 5 percent fine prominent red (10R 4/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # FL0400106; moist when described; observed in pit, small. clay films on faces of peds; Btg2 horizon displayed clay fractions of 12% < .002 montmorillonite.
    Btg3—130 to 168 centimeters (51.2 to 66.1 inches); gray (5Y 5/1) sandy clay loam; 68 percent sand; 5 percent silt; 27 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; very slow permeability; clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent medium prominent yellow (10YR 7/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout and 5 percent fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout and 5 percent fine prominent yellow (10YR 7/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # FL0400107; moist when described; observed in pit, small. clay films on faces of peds
    Cg—168 to 203 centimeters (66.1 to 79.9 inches); gray (5Y 6/1) sandy loam; 79 percent sand; 2 percent silt; 19 percent clay; massive; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 0.215 um/s; very slow permeability; 1 percent medium prominent olive yellow (5Y 6/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout and 1 percent fine prominent olive yellow (5Y 6/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout and 5 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, pH meter. Lab sample # FL0400108; moist when described; observed in pit, small