IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cudjoe
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S06FL087003
  • User Pedon ID: S2006FL087-003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N0708
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18825
  • Print Date: 5/30/2024

    • 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: 24.6878056
  • Std. Longitude: -81.3666389
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 66 S
  • Range: 29 E
  • Section: 22
  • PLSS Details: About 830 feet west and 1080 feet south of the northeast corner
  • Location Description: Big Pine Key
  • Map Unit: 12—Rock outcrop-Cudjoe complex, frequently flooded
  • State: Florida
  • County: FL087—Monroe
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: FL687—Monroe County, Keys Area, Florida

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Hurt, Wade
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, carbonatic, isohyperthermic, shallow Typic Fluvaquents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cudjoe
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, carbonatic, isohyperthermic, shallow Typic Fluvaquents
  • Classificaton Date - 3/6/2006
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty coastal marl over coral limestone
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: reef on marine terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: talf
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: frequent flooding for brief periods begining in jun
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent moderate weathered limestone, coral at 17cm
  • Geology: Silver Bluff formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/6/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 6
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Plant Association Name: Herbaceous Prairie (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 -
    • Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 1
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID Data Collector Total Clay CaCO3 Clay Total Silt Fine Silt Co. Silt Total Sand Total Sand Method VC Sand Co. Sand Med. Sand Fine Sand VF Sand VF Sand Method Texture Class - Field Lab Rubbed Fiber Unrubbed Fiber pH H2O
    cm cm % % % % % % % % % % % % %

    A

    Lma

    0

    3

    3

    17

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 2
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID pH CaCl2 pH NaF pH Ox Delta pH LL PL PI Atter. Samp. Cond. COLE Pot. Acidity Ca + Mg - Meh 2 K Ca + Mg - Sat. Paste KCl Extract. Acidity Base Sat. - Meh 2 CEC-7 CEC-8.2
    cm cm % % % cm/cm meq/100g cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg mmol(+)/l cmol(+)/kg % cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg

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    Lma

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    17

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 3
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID ECEC Phosphate P NO3-N EC EC Method EC 1:5 by volume CaCO3 Equiv. Equiv. Gypsum Na SAR Gypsum Req. Humic Color Fulvic Color Humic + Fulvic Color Al PI Pyro. Hue PyrO. Value Pyro. Chroma
    cm cm cmol(+)/kg mg/kg mg/kg dS/m dS/m % % mmol(+)/l % L-pcu/g L-pcu/g L-pcu/g %

    A

    Lma

    0

    3

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    17

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    ec meter, saturated paste

    ec meter, saturated paste

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    53

    49

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

    bedrock, lithic

    strongly coherent

    17 -

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

    marl

    lithic contact

    0—17

    17—

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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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    980

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    365

    25.5

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    Key West Airport

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    A—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); black (10YR 2/1) interior mucky loam; 34 percent sand; 40 percent silt; 26 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable; low excavation difficulty; 5.0 medium roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout and 5.0 coarse roots throughout; ; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N02949; very moist when described;
    Lma—3 to 17 centimeters (1.2 to 6.7 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior marly clay loam; 29 percent sand; 39 percent silt; 32 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 5.0 medium roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout and 3.0 coarse roots throughout; 4 percent carbonate masses in matrix; 3 percent by volume limestone, coral fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N02950
    2R—17 centimeters (6.7 inches); bedrock; fragments.