LOCATION EAUGALLIE FL
Established Series
Rev. MF; GRB
02/2014
EAUGALLIE SERIES
The EauGallie series consists of very deep, very poorly or poorly drained, slowly permeable soils in flats, sloughs and depressional areas in the Southern Florida Flatwoods (MLRA 155) and to a lesser extent in the Atlantic Coast Flatwoods (MLRA 153A), the South Central Florida Ridge, (MLRA 154) and the Southern Florida Lowlands (MLRA 156B). They formed in sandy and loamy marine sediments in Peninsula Florida. Near the type location, the man annual temperature is about 72 degrees F., and the man annual precipitation is about 55 inches. Slopes range from 0 to 2 percent.
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Sandy, siliceous, hyperthermic Alfic Alaquods
TYPICAL PEDON: EauGallie sand, in a forested area (Colors are for moist soil).
A--0 to 5 inches; black (10YR 2/1) sand, rubbed; color is mixture of light gray sand grains mixed with black organic matter; weak fine granular structure; very friable; many fine roots, few medium roots; very strongly acid; clear smooth boundary. (3 to 10 inches thick)
E1--5 to 14 inches; gray (10YR 5/1) sand; single grained; loose; few fine and medium roots; very strongly acid; gradual wavy boundary. (6 to 10 inches thick)
E2--14 to 22 inches; gray (10YR 6/1) sand; single grained; loose; few fine and medium roots; strongly acid; abrupt wavy boundary. (6 to 14 inches thick)
Bh1--22 to 26 inches; black (N 2/0), sand; moderate medium granular structure; firm; common fine roots; sand grains are coated with organic matter; moderately acid; clear wavy boundary.
Bh2--26 to 32 inches; black (5YR 2/1) sand; moderate medium granular structure; firm; few fine and medium roots; sand grains coated with organic matter; moderately acid; clear wavy boundary.
Bh3--32 to 35 inches; dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) sand; moderate medium granular structure; friable; common fine and medium black (5YR 2/1) very firm fragments of Bh; sand grains coated with organic matter; moderately acid; gradual wavy boundary. (Combined thickness of the Bh horizons ranges from 2 to 42 inches.)
BE--35 to 50 inches; dark brown (10YR 3/3) sand; weak fine granular structure; very friable; common fine and medium dark reddish brown (5YR 2/2) very firm Bh fragments; many uncoated sand grains; slightly acid; gradual wavy boundary. (0 to 24 inches thick)
E'--50 to 55 inches; dark gray (10YR 4/1) sand; common medium and coarse single grained; loose; faint light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) areas of iron depletions; slightly acid; abrupt wavy boundary. (0 to 25 inches thick)
Btg--55 to 61 inches; light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) sandy clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; few fine faint light gray sand streaks; sand grains coated and bridged with clay; slightly acid; gradual wavy boundary. (5 to 20 inches thick)
Cg--61 to 84 inches; mixed lenses and pockets of light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) sand, loamy sand, and sandy loam; massive; loose to firm; few fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of iron accumulation; slightly acid.
TYPE LOCATION: Brevard County, Florida. Approximately 0.3 mile south of the junction of Wickham Road and Kennedy Airport Road, west of Melbourne and 75 feet west of Wickham Road in the SE 1/4, NE 1/4, Sec. 36, T. 27 S., R. 36 E.
RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS: Solum thickness ranges from 46 to 90 inches. Soil reaction ranges from extremely acid to moderately acid in the A and E horizon except where limed or irrigated with alkaline artesian water, and extremely acid to slightly alkaline in all other horizons. In some areas, limestone bedrock is at a depth of 50 to 80 inches. Boulders and cobbles throughout the solum range from none to few.
The A horizon has hue of 10YR, value of 2 to 4, and chroma of 1. Undisturbed, it is a mixture of clean sand grains and organic matter. Texture is sand or fine sand.
The E horizon has hue of 10YR, value of 5 to 8, and chroma of 1 or 2; or is neutral with value of 5. Redoximorphic accumulations in shades of brown, red, or yellow, range from none to common. Texture is sand or fine sand. In depressional areas, thin muck surfaces may occur.
The Bh horizon has hue of 5YR to 10YR, value of 2 or 3, and chroma of 1 to 3; or is neutral with value of 2 or 3. Sand grains are well coated with organic matter. Texture is sand, fine sand, or loamy fine sand.
The EB horizon, where present, has hue of 10YR, to 5Y, value of 5 or 6, chroma of 1 or 2. Texture is loamy sand or loamy fine sand.
The BE horizon, where present, has hue of 7.5YR or 10YR, value of 4 or 5, and chroma of 2 to 6. Weakly cemented fragments of Bh horizon range from none to common. Texture is sand or fine sand.
The Bw horizons, where present, has hue of 5YR or 7.5YR, value of 3 to 6, and chroma of 3 or 4. Redoximorphic features in shades of gray, yellow and brown range from none to common. Texture is fine sand or sand.
The E' horizon, where present, has hue of 10YR or 2.5Y, value of 4 to 8, and chroma of 1 to 3. Texture is sand or fine sand.
The EB' horizon, where present is above the Btg horizon. It has hue of 10YR to 5Y, value of 5 or 6, and chroma of 1 or 2. Texture is loamy sand or loamy fine sand.
The Btg horizon has hue of 10YR to 5Y, value of 4 to 7, and chroma of 3 or less. Redoximorphic features in shades of brown, yellow, and gray range from none to common. Texture is sandy loam, fine sandy loam, or sandy clay loam. Lenses and pockets of sand or sandy loam range from none to common.
The Cg horizon has hue of 10YR to 5Y, value of 5 to 7, and chroma of 1 to 3; or there is no dominant color and it is mixed in shades of yellow, brown, and gray. Texture ranges from sand to fine sandy loam.
COMPETING SERIES: There are no known series in the same family.
GEOGRAPHIC SETTING: EauGallie soils are in flatwoods, floodplains, sloughs and depressions in Peninsula Florida. Slopes range from 0 to 2 percent. They formed in thick beds of sandy and loamy marine sediments. The climate is humid subtropical. The average annual air temperature ranges from 70 to 74 degrees F., and the average annual precipitation ranges from 50 to 60 inches.
GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS: These include the
Basinger,
Delray,
Farmton,
Felda,
Holopaw,
Immokalee,
Malabar,
Myakka,
Oldsmar,
Pineda,
Pinellas,
Pomona,
Smyrna,
St. Johns and
Wabasso series. Basinger, Felda, Holopaw, Malabar, Pineda and Pinellas series do not have spodic horizons. Immokalee, Myakka, Smyrna, and St. Johns series do not have a Btg horizon. Delray soils have mollic epipedons, have surface and subsurface layers 40 to 80 inches in thickness and do not have spodic horizons.
Farmington and Oldsmar soils have A and E horizons more than 30 inches thick.
Pepper soils are cemented (ortstein) in the Bh horizon. Pomona soils have less than 35 percent base saturation in the Btg horizon. Wabasso soils are on similar positions and have an argillic horizon within a depth of 37 inches.
DRAINAGE AND PERMEABILITY: Very poorly or poorly drained; rapid permeability in the A, E and Bh horizons, slowly permeable in the Bt horizons and moderately permeable in the horizon.
USE AND VEGETATION: Many areas of EauGallie soils are used for citrus, truck crops, and pastureland. The natural vegetation consists of longleaf pine, South Florida slash pine, slash pine, fetterbush. The understory vegetation includes running oak, saw palmetto, inkberry, gallberry, wax myrtle, southern bayberry and pineland threeawn.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Central and southern Peninsular Florida. The series is of large extent.
MLRA SOIL SURVEY REGIONAL OFFICE (MO) RESPONSIBLE: Auburn, Alabama.
SERIES ESTABLISHED: Brevard County, Florida; 1970.
REMARKS: Diagnostic horizons and features in this pedon:
Ochric epipedon - 0 to 22 inches (A, E1, and E2).
Albic horizon - 5 to 22 inches (E1, E2).
Spodic horizon - 22 to 35 inches (Bh1, Bh2, and Bh3).
Argillic horizon - 55 to 61 inches (Btg).
Aquic condition - endosaturation - throughout.
The water table rises within 6 to 18 inches of the surface for periods of 1 to 4 months and is within 40 inches for more than 6 months. Depressional areas are covered with standing water 3 to 6 months during most years.
EauGallie soils are primarily in MLRA 155 and to a lesser extent in MLRAs 153A, 154 and 156B.
ADDITIONAL DATA: Laboratory data is available on the National Soil Survey website at: http;://ncsslabdatamart.sc.egov.usda.gov/querypage.aspx
Laboratory data was provided the Soil Characterization Lab, IFAS, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville FL.
National Cooperative Soil Survey
U.S.A.