IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Pennsuco
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S06FL025001
  • User Pedon ID: S2006FL025-001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S06FL025-001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N0702
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18819
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 25.2881944
  • Std. Longitude: -80.4450833
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 59 S
  • Range: 39E
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: SE 1/4 of SE 1/4; About 415 feet west and 425 feet north of the southeast corner
  • Location Description: Location is within the Southen Glades Wildlife and Environmental Area and just north ofEverglades NP .
  • Map Unit: 5@—Islamorada muck, tidal
  • State: Florida
  • County: FL025—Dade
  • MLRA: 156A—Florida Everglades and Associated Areas
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: FL687—Monroe County, Keys Area, Florida

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Hurt, Wade
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, carbonatic, hyperthermic Typic Fluvaquents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Pennsuco
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, carbonatic, hyperthermic Typic Fluvaquents
  • Classificaton Date - 3/6/2006
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty marl over oolitic limestone
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: flat on marine terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: talf
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: frequent flooding for very brief periods begining in jan
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent limestone, unspecified at 110cm
  • Geology: Silver Bluff formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/6/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 62
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Plant Association Name: Freshwater marsh (SFWMD community)
  • 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 -
  • Current Weather - partly cloudy
    • Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 1
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID Data Collector Total Clay CaCO3 Clay Total Silt Fine Silt Co. Silt Total Sand Total Sand Method VC Sand Co. Sand Med. Sand Fine Sand VF Sand VF Sand Method Texture Class - Field Lab Rubbed Fiber Unrubbed Fiber pH H2O
    cm cm % % % % % % % % % % % % %

    A

    Lma1

    Lma2

    Lma3

    Lma4

    0

    8

    13

    35

    99

    8

    13

    35

    99

    110

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 2
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID pH CaCl2 pH NaF pH Ox Delta pH LL PL PI Atter. Samp. Cond. COLE Pot. Acidity Ca + Mg - Meh 2 K Ca + Mg - Sat. Paste KCl Extract. Acidity Base Sat. - Meh 2 CEC-7 CEC-8.2
    cm cm % % % cm/cm meq/100g cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg mmol(+)/l cmol(+)/kg % cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg

    A

    Lma1

    Lma2

    Lma3

    Lma4

    0

    8

    13

    35

    99

    8

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    99

    110

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 3
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID ECEC Phosphate P NO3-N EC EC Method EC 1:5 by volume CaCO3 Equiv. Equiv. Gypsum Na SAR Gypsum Req. Humic Color Fulvic Color Humic + Fulvic Color Al PI Pyro. Hue PyrO. Value Pyro. Chroma
    cm cm cmol(+)/kg mg/kg mg/kg dS/m dS/m % % mmol(+)/l % L-pcu/g L-pcu/g L-pcu/g %

    A

    Lma1

    Lma2

    Lma3

    Lma4

    0

    8

    13

    35

    99

    8

    13

    35

    99

    110

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    ec meter, saturated paste

    ec meter, saturated paste

    ec meter, saturated paste

    ec meter, saturated paste

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    Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    CLMAJ

    RHMA2

    Cladium mariscus ssp. jamaicense

    Rhizophora mangle

    Jamaica swamp sawgrass

    red mangrove

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

    bedrock, lithic

    strongly coherent

    110 -

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

    marl

    lithic contact

    0—110

    110—

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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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    Hialeah

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior mucky silt loam; 15 percent sand; 61 percent silt; 24 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable; low excavation difficulty; 5.0 medium roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout and 5.0 coarse roots throughout; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N02924; very moist when described;. many aquatic snail shells
    Lma1—8 to 13 centimeters (3.1 to 5.1 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/1) interior marly loam; 33 percent sand; 49 percent silt; 18 percent clay; structureless massive; friable; low excavation difficulty; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N02925; very moist when described;. many aquatic snail shells
    Lma2—13 to 35 centimeters (5.1 to 13.8 inches); 70 percent light gray (2.5Y 7/2) interior and 30 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior marly silt; 4 percent sand; 85 percent silt; 11 percent clay; structureless massive; friable; low excavation difficulty; 5.0 medium roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout and 5.0 coarse roots throughout; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N02926; very moist when described;. many aquatic snail shells
    Lma3—35 to 99 centimeters (13.8 to 39.0 inches); 60 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior and 40 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) interior marly silt; 7 percent sand; 83 percent silt; 11 percent clay; structureless massive; friable; low excavation difficulty; 5.0 medium roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N02927; very moist when described;. common aquatic snail shells
    Lma4—99 to 110 centimeters (39.0 to 43.3 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) interior marly silt; 3 percent sand; 91 percent silt; 5 percent clay; structureless massive; friable; low excavation difficulty; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH meter; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 06N02928; very moist when described;. 1 cm above rock is very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silty clay loam
    2R—110 centimeters (43.3 inches); bedrock; fragments.