LOCATION ITTSANAPPER FL

Established Series
RBT-ARW
10/2024

ITTSANAPPER SERIES

MLRA(s)--155
Depth class--Very deep
Drainage class--Subaqueous
Water depth range--0.65 to 3.50 meters
Parent material--Coarse-loamy over clayey estuarine deposits
Geomorphic location--Lagoon bottom and lagoon channels
Soil Organic Carbon Stock to 200 centimeters--42.8 kg m-2
Slope range for Series--0 to 1 percent
Mean annual air temperature--22 degrees C (72 degrees F)
Mean annual precipitation--1300 millimeters (51 inches)
Mean annual water temperature--25 degrees C (77 degrees F)

TAXONOMIC CLASS: Coarse-loamy over clayey, mixed, semiactive, nonacid, hyperthermic Grossic Hydrowassents

TYPICAL PEDON: Ittsanapper shelly loamy coarse sand on a east facing, 0.1 percent linear slope bare mud lagoon bottom under 3.35 meters of estuarine water. Tidal range is 24 centimeters. (Colors are for moist soil unless otherwise noted).

Cseg1--0 to 22 centimeters; dark greenish gray (5GY 4/1) shelly loamy coarse sand; massive; nonsticky, nonplastic; slightly fluid; 17 percent shell fragments; moderate sulfurous odor; moderately alkaline (pH 8.4); moderately alkaline (pH 8.4) oxidized pH; 5.4 kg m-3 soil organic carbon; clear boundary.

Cseg2--22 to 61 centimeters; dark greenish gray (5G 4/1) shelly coarse sandy loam; massive; slightly sticky, nonplastic; slightly fluid; 15 percent shell fragments; slight sulfurous odor; moderately alkaline (pH 8.4); strongly alkaline (pH 8.5) oxidized pH; 15.7 kg m-3 soil organic carbon; clear boundary. (25 to 187 centimeters thick)

2Cseg3--61 to 116 centimeters; dark greenish gray (5G 4/1) clay; massive; slightly sticky, nonplastic; moderately fluid; 4 percent shell fragments; slight sulfurous odor; strongly alkaline (pH 8.6); moderately alkaline (pH 8.2) oxidized pH; 7.3 kg m-3 soil organic carbon; gradual boundary.

2Cseg4--116 to 149 centimeters; 70 percent greenish gray (10GY 5/1) and 30 percent greenish gray (5GY 6/1) mucky clay; massive; slightly sticky, nonplastic; moderately fluid; 3 percent shell fragments; slight sulfurous odor; moderately alkaline (pH 8.4); moderately alkaline (pH 8.3) oxidized pH; 7.8 kg m-3 soil organic carbon; clear boundary.

2Cseg5--149 to 232 centimeters; dark greenish gray (5G 4/1) clay; massive; slightly sticky, nonplastic; very fluid; 7 percent shell fragments; slight petrochemical odor; strongly alkaline (pH 8.6); moderately alkaline (pH 8.2) oxidized pH; 6.6 kg m-3 soil organic carbon.

TYPE LOCATION: Brevard County, Florida; approximately 1.6 kilometers (1 mile) east of Greater Byrd Island and 1.5 kilometers (0.93 miles) southeast of Lesser Byrd Island; USGS topographic quadrangle: Cocoa, Florida.

Latitude--28.2728830
Longitude-- -80.6388080
Datum--WGS84
Coordinate source--Manually entered from GPS

RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS:
Depth to bedrock--Greater than 200 centimeters
Depth to lithologic discontinuity (where present)--35 to 150 centimeters and is usually represented by finer textured materials containing lower percentages of shell fragments (lagoon bottom materials)
Particle--size control section--Less than 18 percent clay
Soil moisture--Continuously inundated
Reaction throughout--Slightly alkaline to strongly alkaline (pH 7.4 to 9.0)
Oxidized reaction--Slightly acid to strongly alkaline (pH 6.1 to 9.0)
Electrical conductivity (1:5 soil-water) throughout--0.6 dS/m or greater
Manner of failure--Slightly fluid to very fluid
Shell fragments throughout--0 to 90 percent (higher ranges occur in thin individual horizons)
Total Soil Organic Carbon Stock to 200 centimeters--20.5 to 61.9 kg m-2

Aseg (where present)-
Hue--2.5Y to 10Y or is neutral
Value--2.5 to 5
Chroma--1 or less
Texture--Sandy loam, fine sandy loam, loamy fine sand or loamy coarse sand
Organic carbon density--0.6 to 7.1 kg m-3

Cseg horizon-
Hue--5Y, 10Y, 5GY, 10GY, 5B, 5G, 5BG, or is neutral
Value--3 to 7
Chroma--1 or less
Texture--Fine sandy loam, coarse sandy loam, sandy loam, silt loam, silty clay loam, silty clay or loamy fine sand with shelly, very shelly or extremely shelly analogs
Organic carbon density--2.6 to 19.5 kg m-3

2Cseg horizon-
Hue--10Y, 5GY, 5G, 10GY, 10B, 10G, or is neutral
Value--3 to 7
Chroma--1 or less
Texture--Loamy fine sand, loamy sand, sandy loam, fine sandy loam, silt loam, silt, sandy clay loam, silty clay loam, silty clay, or clay
Organic carbon density--2.4 to 14.4 kg m-3

Thin strata of sandy and / or finer materials are found in some pedons but are thin enough to maintain particle-size class.

Some areas are underlain at a depth greater than 100 centimeters by buried fluviomarine deposits with buried albic and spodic horizons.

COMPETING SERIES: There are no competing series.

GEOGRAPHIC SETTING:
Parent material--Coarse-loamy over clayey estuarine deposits
Landscape--Coastal lagoons
Landform--Lagoon bottoms and lagoon channels
Slope--0 to 1 percent
Mean annual precipitation--970 to 1570 millimeters (38 to 62 inches)
Mean annual air temperature--20 to 25 degrees C (69 to 77 degrees F)
Water salinity range--9 to 29 parts per thousand
Frost-free period--365 days

GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS: These are the Broadaxe, Endeavor, Mullet, and Tea Hammock soils.

Broadaxe soils--are on submerged wave-cut platforms and have abundant buried and preserved spodic horizons in their fluviomarine deposits.
Endeavor soils--are on relict flood-tidal delta landforms and have sandier textures throughout
Mullet soils--are on washover-fan flat landforms and are sandy textured
Tea Hammock soils--are also on nearby anthropogenic landforms consisting of dredge deposits shoals

DRAINAGE AND SATURATED HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY:
Drainage class--Subaqueous
Saturated hydraulic conductivity--Moderately high or high
Soil moisture regime--Peraquic
Soil is continuously inundated by saline and brackish water.

USE AND VEGETATION:
Major uses--Used for recreational boating, fishing, and swimming, marinas, mooring fields, and commercial shellfish harvesting; benthic species include tubeworms, clams, crabs, scallops and juvenile finfish
Native vegetation--Dominant vegetation is driven by water quality and quantity within subaqueous systems. Under excellent water quality these soils support seagrass species including but not limited to shoal grass (Halodule wrightii), manatee grass (Syringodium filiforme), and star grass (Halophila engelmannii). Under degraded / poor water quality seagrass may be replaced by rooted eukaryotic macroalgae in the green (Chlorophyta), red (Rhodophyta), and brown (Phaeophyta) algae families. Caulerpa prolifera (Chlorophyta) is often dominant. Vegetative cover ranges from 0 through 80 percent.

DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT:
General area--Located along the coasts of Indian River Lagoon, Florida
Land Resource Regions--U - Florida Subtropical Fruit, Truck Crop, and Range Region
MLRA(s)--155
Extent--Small

SOIL SURVEY REGIONAL OFFICE (SSRO) RESPONSIBLE: SPECIAL PROJECTS OFFICE

SERIES ESTABLISHED: Brevard County, Florida, 2024

REMARKS:
Diagnostic horizons and features in this pedon include--
-Peraquic soil moisture regime--Positive soil water potential (permanently submerged) at the soil surface. (under 3.35 meters of salt water).
-Particle-size control section--The zone from 0 to 100 centimeters (0 to 40 inches).
-Lithologic discontinuity--61 to 232 centimeters (2Cseg3, 2Cseg4, and 2Cseg5 horizons)
-n-value >0.7--The zone from 0 to 232 cm (all soil horizons)
-Taxonomic version--Keys to Soil Taxonomy, 13th edition (2022)

ADDITIONAL DATA:
Typical pedon S2023FL009007
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National Cooperative Soil Survey
U.S.A.