IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Myakka
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1973FL097001
  • User Pedon ID: 1973FL097001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UFL
  • Lab Pedon # - S49_010
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 37728
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 28.1818638
  • Std. Longitude: -81.1366196
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T26S
  • Range: R32E
  • Section: 32
  • PLSS Details: NE 1/4, SW 1/4
  • Location Description: 4.6 miles west of Holopaw intersection, 25 feet south of US 441;
  • Map Unit: 22—Myakka fine sand
  • State: Florida
  • County: FL097—Osceola
  • MLRA: 155—Southern Florida Flatwoods
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 7-TAV—Tavares, Florida
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: FL097—Osceola County, Florida
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 28081-B2—Ashton, Florida

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. G. Calhoun, V. W. Carlisle, L. W. Zelazny, FAES, and E. L. Readle, A. L. Moore, SCS.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy, siliceous, hyperthermic Aeric Alaquods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Myakka
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/10/2014
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Myakka
  • Taxonomic Class - Aeric Alaquods, sandy, siliceous, hyperthermic.
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 4/15/2011
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: marine deposits
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: flatwoods on marine terrace
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/15/2011 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    ochric epipedon

    albic horizon

    spodic horizon

    0—33

    18—33

    69—94

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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

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    970

    —

    300

    22

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    A—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) fine sand; weak medium granular structure; very friable; many (7.0) fine and medium roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # FL4901001
    E—18 to 69 centimeters (7.1 to 27.2 inches);, light gray (10YR 7/1), dry; fine sand; single grain; loose; 3.0 fine and medium roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # FL4901002
    Bh1—69 to 84 centimeters (27.2 to 33.1 inches);, black (10YR 2/1), dry; fine sand; massive parts to moderate medium subangular blocky; firm, weakly coherent; 7.0 fine and medium roots; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.1; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # FL4901004
    Bh2—84 to 94 centimeters (33.1 to 37.0 inches);, dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) and very dark gray (5YR 3/1), dry; fine sand; massive parts to moderate medium subangular blocky; firm, weakly coherent; common (3.0) medium roots and common (3.0) fine roots; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # FL4901005
    Bw—94 to 109 centimeters (37.0 to 42.9 inches);, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), dry; fine sand; single grain; loose; 3.0 medium roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # FL4901006
    E'—109 to 178 centimeters (42.9 to 70.1 inches);, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; fine sand; single grain; loose; common (3.0) medium roots top of horizon and common (3.0) fine roots top of horizon; fragments; reduced monosulfides present; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # FL4901007
    B'h—178 to 208 centimeters (70.1 to 81.9 inches);, dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2), dry; fine sand; massive parts to weak fine subangular blocky; very friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9. Lab sample # FL4901008