IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Riviera
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1971FL099002
  • User Pedon ID: S1971FL099002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - UFL
  • Lab Pedon # - S50_002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 37683
  • Print Date: 6/1/2024

    • 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: 26.6420670
  • Std. Longitude: -80.1768799
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T44S
  • Range: R42E
  • Section: 17
  • Location Description: 1000 feet east of Blanchette Trail and 1700 feet south of Forest Hill Blvd.;
  • Map Unit: 36—Riviera fine sand, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • State: Florida
  • County: FL099—Palm Beach
  • MLRA: 155—Southern Florida Flatwoods
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-FOR—Ft. Myers, Florida
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: FL611—Palm Beach County Area, Florida
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 26080-F2—Palm Beach Farms, Florida

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: V. W. Carlisle, W. G. Pothier, FAES, and S. H. McCollum, L. T. Stem, SCS.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, siliceous, active, hyperthermic Arenic Glossaqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Riviera (flagged as OSD)
  • Classificaton Date - 4/9/2014
  • Classifier - Prink
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Riviera
  • Taxonomic Class - Arenic Glossaqualfs, loamy, siliceous, active, hyperthermic.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/15/2011
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Biol. Crust Type Dominant - none evident
  • Biol. Crust Type Secondary - none evident
  • Phys Crust Subtype - none evident
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy and loamy marine deposits
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: flatwoods on marine terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: talf
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/27/1971 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - swamp
  • 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

    argillic horizon

    glossic horizon

    0—71

    15—71

    71—107

    71—91

    —71—

    —56—

    —36—

    —20—
    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

    —

    —

    —

    —

    1524

    —

    355

    23

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    —

    —

    —

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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; fine sand; weak fine granular structure; loose, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; nonfluid; fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 6.0; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # FL5000201; observed in pit, large or quarry
    E—15 to 71 centimeters (5.9 to 28.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/2) fine sand; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; nonfluid; fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 6.6; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # FL5000202; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bt—71 to 81 centimeters (28.0 to 31.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) and very pale brown (10YR 8/2) sandy clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; nonfluid; 20 percent distinct dark olive brown (2.5Y 3/3), moist, clay bridges between sand grains; 10 percent fine faint spherical iron-manganese masses throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # FL5000203; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Btg—81 to 107 centimeters (31.9 to 42.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) sandy clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; nonfluid; distinct dark olive brown (2.5Y 3/3), moist, clay bridges between sand grains; 10 percent coarse faint spherical , moist, iron-manganese masses throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.3; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # FL5000204; observed in pit, large or quarry
    C—107 to 157 centimeters (42.1 to 61.8 inches); gray (N 6/0) fine sand; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; nonfluid; 10 percent by volume flat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 2-75-150 millimeter shell fragments fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.0. Lab sample # FL5000205; observed in pit, large or quarry