IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Pomello
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2009FL105001
  • User Pedon ID: S2009FL105001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2009FL105001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 09N0914
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24538
  • 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: 27.9278603
  • Std. Longitude: -81.7042770
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 29S
  • Range: 26E
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: SW 1/4, NE 1/4, SW 1/4
  • Location Description: East of Pollard Road, Polk County
  • Map Unit: 22—Pomello fine sand
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Florida
  • County: FL105—Polk
  • MLRA: 154—South-Central Florida Ridge
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: FL105—Polk County, Florida
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 27081-H6—Eloise, Florida

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Leach-Ford-Lewis-Ruh-Castro
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy, siliceous, hyperthermic, uncoated Oxyaquic Alorthods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Pomello
  • Taxonomic Class - Sandy, siliceous, hyperthermic, uncoated Oxyaquic Alorthods
  • PSC - 122 to 206 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/19/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - oxyaquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy marine deposits
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: Sunderland/Okeefenokee rise on marine terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: rise
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Geology: Sunderland/okeefenokee formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/19/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: Sand scrub
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other shrub cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - rain
  • Current Air Temp - 22
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    PIPA2

    QUGE2

    QUPU80

    SERE2

    SMILA2

    Pinus palustris

    Quercus geminata

    Quercus pumila

    Serenoa repens

    Smilax

    longleaf pine

    sand live oak

    running oak

    saw palmetto

    greenbrier

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

    spodic horizon

    122—206

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    Site Soil Temperature
    Site Obs. Date Depth Sensor Kind Temperature
    cm C

    5/19/2009

    50

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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

    0.5

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    37.4

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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) fine sand; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N03317
    E1—15 to 28 centimeters (5.9 to 11.0 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) fine sand; structureless single grain; loose; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 0.1 coarse roots throughout; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N03318
    E2—28 to 122 centimeters (11.0 to 48.0 inches); light gray (10YR 7/1) fine sand; structureless single grain; loose; 0.5 medium roots top of horizon and 0.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N03319
    Bh1—122 to 180 centimeters (48.0 to 70.9 inches); variegated 40 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) and 30 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) and 30 percent black (5YR 2.5/1) fine sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.1; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N03320
    Bh2—180 to 206 centimeters (70.9 to 81.1 inches); variegated 60 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) and 40 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 2.5/2) fine sand; structureless massive; loose; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.1. Lab sample # 09N03321