IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Samsula
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2016FL107021
  • User Pedon ID: S2016FL107021
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 18N0235
  • User Project ID: OSBS_003_NEON
  • Project Name: Ordway-Swisher Biological Station
  • Print Date: 12/6/2025

    • 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: 29.6955889
  • Std. Longitude: -81.9532000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Ordway Swisher NEON Sampling Project. *Notes* 1Meter South & 1Meter West of SW 31 = NE Corner of Pit. -Existing Vegitation: Longleaf Pine, Loblolly pine, Slash Pine, and Maiden Cane. -Seasonal High Water Table appears to be at the surface in normal years.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Florida
  • County: FL107—Putnam
  • MLRA: 154—South-Central Florida Ridge
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Nichols/Crockett/Depew
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy or sandy-skeletal, siliceous, dysic, hyperthermic Terric Haplosaprists
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 21
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Samsula
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/21/2016
  • Classifier - Nichols/Crockett/Depew
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Organic-Sand marine deposits
  • Landscape: marine terrace
  • Landform: depression
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • RaCA Site ID - OSBS_021
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Nichols/Crockett/Depew

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/21/2016 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Nichols/Crockett/Depew
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - conifers
  • 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

    sapric soil materials

    reduced matrix

    0—34

    34—100

    —34—

    —66—
    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

    1.5

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    28.9

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    355

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    Oe—0 to 7 centimeters (0.0 to 2.8 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) rubbed peat; structureless massive; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; many (10.0) fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 18N01524; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Oa—7 to 34 centimeters (2.8 to 13.4 inches); black (10YR 2/1) muck; strong coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; many (8.0) very fine roots and few (0.8) medium roots and many (6.0) fine roots; 2 percent skeletans; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 18N01525; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Cg1—34 to 56 centimeters (13.4 to 22.0 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) sand; structureless massive; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; few (0.8) medium roots and few (0.8) fine roots; 5 percent faint black (10YR 2/1) organic stains and 40 percent skeletans; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 18N01526; moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1486511; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1486511
    Cg2—56 to 100 centimeters (22.0 to 39.4 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) sand; structureless massive; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; few (0.8) medium roots and few (0.8) fine roots; 7 percent faint organic stains; fragments. Lab sample # 18N01527; moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1486512; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1486512