Anclote Series

• Depth class: Very deep
• Drainage class: Very poorly drained
• Permeability: Rapid
• Parent material: Sandy marine sediments
• Landscape: Lower Coastal Plain
• Landform: Depressions, drainageways, and flood plains
• Slope: 0 to 2 percent
• Taxonomic class: Sandy, siliceous, hyperthermic Typic Endoaquolls

The Anclote soils are commonly associated on the landscape with Manatee, Okeechobee, Placid, and Samsula soils. Manatee soils have an argillic horizon. Okeechobee and Samsula soils are organic soils. Placid soils do not have a mollic epipedon.

Typical Pedon

Anclote fine sand, depressional, in Pinellas County; USGS Oldsmar topographic quadrangle; lat. 28 degrees 06 minutes 00 seconds N. and long. 82 degrees 44 minutes 53 seconds W.

• A—0 to 16 inches; black (10YR 2/1) fine sand; weak medium granular structure; loose to friable; many fine roots and few medium and large roots; slightly acid; clear wavy boundary.
• Cg1—16 to 29 inches; dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) fine sand; single grain; loose; few medium faint areas of very dark gray (10YR 3/1) fine sand; few fine roots; slightly acid; clear wavy boundary.
• Cg2—29 to 58 inches; grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine sand; single grain; loose; few fine distinct streaks of light gray (10YR 7/1) fine sand throughout; slightly acid; clear wavy boundary.
• Cg3—58 to 80 inches; 60 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and 40 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) fine sand; single grain; loose; neutral.

Range in Characteristics

• Reaction: Moderately acid to slightly alkaline throughout
• A horizon:
  • Color—hue of 10YR, value of 2 or 3, and chroma of 1 or 2
  • Texture—sand or fine sand. In some pedons, the A horizon has a thin layer of muck.
• Cg horizon:
  • Color—hue of 10YR to 5Y, value of 2 to 7, and chroma of 1 or 2
  • Texture—sand or fine sand
  • Redoximorphic features (where present)—iron depletions in shades of gray

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