LOCATION SHARK VALLEY FL
Tentative Series
CAP/MVF/RBT
08/2021
SHARK VALLEY SERIES
MLRA(s): 156A
Soil Survey Regional Office (SSRO) Responsible: Auburn, Alabama
Depth Class: Moderately deep
Drainage Class: Very poorly drained
Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity: Moderately high to high in the organic material and negligible in the rock material
Index Surface Runoff: Negligible
Parent Material: Organic materials over limestone bedrock
Slope: 0 to 1 percent
Elevation: 1 to 7 meters (3 to 23 feet)
Mean Annual Air Temperature: 25 degrees C. (77 degrees F.)
Mean Annual Precipitation: 1397 millimeters (55 inches)
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Euic, isohyperthermic Lithic Haplosaprists
TYPICAL PEDON: Shark Valley muck on a concave dip in freshwater marsh. (Colors are for moist soil unless otherwise stated.)
Oa1--0 to 28 centimeters (0 to 11 inches); black (10YR 2/1) muck, very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dry; about 30 percent fiber unrubbed, about 5 percent rubbed; weak medium prismatic structure; very friable; slightly acid, (pH 6.5); gradual wavy boundary.
Oa2--28 to 61 centimeters (11 to 24 inches); black (10YR 2/1) muck, dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; about 25 percent fiber unrubbed, about 5 percent rubbed; massive; very friable; neutral, (pH 6.6); abrupt wavy boundary. [50 to 100 centimeters (20 to 40 inches) thick]
2R--61 centimeters (24 inches); moderately to very strongly cemented or indurated limestone bedrock; solution holes up to 102 centimeters (40 inches) or more deep can be filled with sandy and/or loamy material.
TYPE LOCATION: Broward County, Florida; approximately 2.95 miles north of I75 and 12.75 miles northwest of the intersection of I75 and US 27; about 825 feet west and 450 feet south of the northeast corner of Section 28, T. 48 S., R. 39 E.; latitude 26 degrees, 11 minutes, 20.22 seconds N and longitude 80 degrees, 38 minutes, 52.84 seconds W; WSG84. USGS East of Lone Palm Head, FL quadrangle.
RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS:
Solum thickness: 50 to 100 centimeters (20 to 40 inches)
Depth to seasonally high water: 0 to 15 centimeters (0 to 6 inches)
Depth of the organic material: 50 to 100 centimeters (20 to 40 inches)
Depth to bedrock: 50 to 100 centimeters (20 to 40 inches)
Fiber content: Un-Rubbed: 10 to 70 percent; Rubbed less than 17 percent
Range of Individual Horizons:
Oa horizon:
Color--hue of 5YR, 7.5YR, 10YR, 2.5Y or Neutral, value of 2 or 3, and chroma of 1 to 3
Texture: muck
Reaction: moderately acid to neutral
EC (mmhos/cm): 0 to 8
Exchangeable Sodium: 0 to 5 percent
Sodium Absorption Ratio: 0 to 8 percent
2C or 2Cg horizon, where present:
Color--Hue of 10YR, 2.5Y, or 5Y, value of 2 to 7, and chroma of 1 to 3
Texture: marly silt loam, marly silt, marly loam, fine sand, sand, loamy fine sand, and loamy sand, or their mucky analogs
Reaction: slightly acid to moderately alkaline
Calcium carbonate equivalence: 40 to 80 percent or more in the marly sediments
EC (mmhos/cm): 0 to 16 or more
Exchangeable Sodium: 0 to 15 percent or more
Sodium Absorption Ratio: 0 to 13 percent or more
The C horizon is less than 25 centimeters (10 inches) thick.
2R horizon:
Weakly to very strongly cemented or indurated limestone bedrock, with solution holes filled with sandy and/or marly materials. Solution holes can be up to 102 centimeters (40 inches) or more deep.
COMPETING SERIES: These are the
Macks Camp (FL) and
Tamiami (FL) series.
Macks Camp soils have limestone at depths of 100 to 150 centimeters (40 to 60 inches) and occur on similar landform positions.
Tamiami soils have subsurface horizons of freshwater marl that compose less than 1/2 the thickness of the control section and occur in similar landform positions.
GEOGRAPHIC SETTING:
Landscape: Florida Everglades and Lower Coastal Plain
Landform: Talfs, rises, and/or dips in freshwater marshes and swamps of the Everglades and depressions on flatwoods areas.
Parent material: well decomposed organic materials overlying limestone bedrock.
Mean annual air temperature: 25 to 27 degrees C. (77 to 81 degrees F.)
Mean annual precipitation: 1118 to 1651 millimeters (44 to 65 inches)
GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS:
Buffalo Tiger soils have limestone bedrock at depths of 150 to 203 centimeters (60 to 80 inches) and occur in similar landform positions.
Cooper Town soils have limestone bedrock within 18 to 50 centimeters (7 to 20 inches) and occur in similar landform positions.
Gator Lake soils have limestone bedrock within 5 to 18 centimeters (2 to 7 inches) and occur in similar landform positions.
Loxahatche soils lack limestone bedrock within 203 centimeters (80 inches) and are in similar landform positions.
Macks Camp soils have limestone bedrock at depths of 100 to 150 centimeters (40 to 60 inches) and occur on similar landform positions.
Plantation soils have sandy layers more than 25 centimeters (10 inches) thick below the organic layer and above the limestone bedrock, and occur on similar landform positions.
DRAINAGE AND SATURATED HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY:
Drainage class: Very poorly drained
Saturated hydraulic conductivity (KSAT): Moderately high to high
Surface Runoff: Negligible
Flooding frequency and duration: Sawgrass plains are very frequently flooded for very long periods, during the dry season or periods of drought there may be no flooding. In natural conditions, flooding occurs for very long duration of 9 to 11 months. Tree Islands are occasionally flooded for brief periods during periods of heavy rainfall, severe storms, and hurricanes. Currently flooding is controlled by anthropogenic activities.
Ponding frequency and duration: depressions on flatwoods areas are covered by water (ponded) very frequently for very long duration 9 to 11 months.
USE AND VEGETATION:
Major Uses: Water quality, water storage, and wildlife habitat.
Dominant vegetation: sawgrass, sedges, lilies, spikerush, willow, elderberry, pond apple, and cypress.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: MLRA 156A Florida Everglades and Associated Areas. This soil is of moderate extent.
SOIL SURVEY REGIONAL OFFICE (SSRO) RESPONSIBLE: Auburn, Alabama
SERIES PROPOSED: Broward County, Florida; 2018.
REMARKS: Diagnostic horizons and features in this pedon include:
1. Histic epipedon: 0 to 61 centimeters (0 to 24 inches) (Oa1 and Oa2 horizons).
2. Lithic contact: 61 centimeters (24 inches) (2R horizon).
3. Peraquic Conditions: Endosaturation ranges from 0 to 203 centimeters (0 to 80 inches)
Hydric Indicators: A1 Histosol, A3 Black Histic, and A8 Muck Presence
This soil was previously mapped as Lauderhill, which is in the hyperthermic temperature regime.
ADDITIONAL DATA:
Laboratory data is available on the National Soil Survey website at: http://ncsslabdatamart.sc.egov.usda.gov/querypage.aspx
OSD User Site ID: 2010FL011069
OSD Pedon Site ID: 2010FL011069
National Cooperative Soil Survey
U.S.A.