IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ochopee
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S06FL021003
  • User Pedon ID: S2006FL021-003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S06FL021-003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N0701
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18818
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 26.0227778
  • Std. Longitude: -81.2651667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 51 S
  • Range: 30 E
  • Section: 24
  • PLSS Details: NE 1/4 of NE 1/4. About 185 feet south and 700 feet west of the northeast corner
  • Location Description: BIG CYPRESS NATIONAL PRESERVE
  • State: Florida
  • County: FL021—Collier
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: FL021—Collier County, Florida

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Hurt, Wade
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, calcareous, hyperthermic Lithic Endoaquepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ochopee
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, superactive, calcareous, hyperthermic Lithic Endoaquepts
  • Classificaton Date - 3/6/2006
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy marine deposits over limestone
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: marsh on marine terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: dip
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent limestone, unspecified at 31cm
  • Geology: Silver Bluff formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/6/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 7
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Plant Association Name: Freshwater Marsh (SFWMD-Sawgrass)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ARIST

    CLMAJ

    JUNCU

    PAHE2

    Aristida

    Cladium mariscus ssp. jamaicense

    Juncus

    Panicum hemitomon

    threeawn

    Jamaica swamp sawgrass

    rush

    maidencane

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    strongly coherent

    31 -

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    lithic contact

    31—

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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

    0

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    3.6

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    1279

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    365

    23

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    Immokalee Weather Station

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    A1—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark gray (5Y 3/1) interior sandy clay loam; 47 percent sand; 27 percent silt; 26 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; friable; low excavation difficulty; 5.0 medium roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout; 2 percent by volume shell fragments fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N02921; very moist when described;
    A2—13 to 25 centimeters (5.1 to 9.8 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior loamy fine sand; 79 percent sand; 14 percent silt; 7 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; friable; low excavation difficulty; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3 percent by volume shell fragments fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N02922; very moist when described;
    Bg/C—25 to 31 centimeters (9.8 to 12.2 inches); 60 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior and 40 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loamy fine sand; 86 percent sand; 5 percent silt; 9 percent clay; structureless massive; friable; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.3, pH meter; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 06N02923; very moist when described;
    2R—31 centimeters (12.2 inches); bedrock; fragments.