IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Biscayne
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S06FL025003
  • User Pedon ID: S2006FL025-003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S06FL025-003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N0704
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18821
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 25.3965278
  • Std. Longitude: -80.4675278
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 58 S
  • Range: 39 E
  • Section: 7
  • PLSS Details: NW 1/4 of SE 1/4. About 2160 feet east and 2640 feet north of the SW corner of
  • Location Description: Close proximity to Everglades National Park
  • Map Unit: 16—Biscayne marl, drained
  • State: Florida
  • County: PR054—Florida
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: FL025—Dade County Area, FloridaFL686—Miami-Dade County Area, Florida

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Hurt, Wade
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, carbonatic, hyperthermic, shallow Typic Fluvaquents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Biscayne
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, carbonatic, hyperthermic, shallow Typic Fluvaquents
  • PSC - 0 to 38 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/6/2006
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty marl over limestone
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: marine terrace, marsh
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: talf
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Bedrock: limestone, unspecified at 38cm
  • Geology: Silver Bluff formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/6/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 26
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Plant Association Name: Wet Praire (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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    BAHA

    CLMAJ

    LARA2

    PINUS

    TYPHA

    Baccharis halimifolia

    Cladium mariscus ssp. jamaicense

    Laguncularia racemosa

    Pinus

    Typha

    eastern baccharis

    Jamaica swamp sawgrass

    white mangrove

    pine

    cattail

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

    bedrock, lithic

    very strongly coherent

    38 - 38

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

    marl

    lithic contact

    0—38

    38—38

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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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    0.3

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    1675

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    365

    25

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    Hilaeah

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    A—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior marly silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; low excavation difficulty; 5.0 fine roots throughout; shell fragments in matrix; shell fragments fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; clear wavy boundary.; very moist when described;
    Lma1—2 to 17 centimeters (0.8 to 6.7 inches); 50 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior and 50 percent light gray (10YR 7/2) interior marly silt loam; 2 percent sand; 85 percent silt; 13 percent clay; weak medium angular blocky structure; friable; low excavation difficulty; 5.0 medium roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout; shell fragments in matrix; shell fragments fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N02932; very moist when described;
    Lma2—17 to 33 centimeters (6.7 to 13.0 inches); 60 percent light gray (10YR 7/2) interior and 20 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior and 20 percent dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior marly silt loam; 3 percent sand; 84 percent silt; 13 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; low excavation difficulty; 3.0 fine roots throughout; shell fragments in matrix; shell fragments fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 06N02933; very moist when described;
    Cg—33 to 38 centimeters (13.0 to 15.0 inches); 50 percent very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior and 50 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior mucky silt loam, silt loam; 20 percent sand; 69 percent silt; 12 percent clay; structureless massive; 0.5 fine roots throughout; shell fragments fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6. Lab sample # 06N02934
    2R—38 centimeters (15.0 inches); bedrock; fragments.