SOIL SURVEY OF THE OCALA AREA, FLORIDA. 211 
The muck ancl peat are of little value at present, owing to the fact 
that they are covered with water. These lie so low that drainage 
would be quite expensive. 
The names of the different soil types and their actual and relative 
extents are given in the accompanying table: 
Areas of different soils. 
Soil 
Acres 
Per ct. 
Norfolk fine sand 
217,152 
1 
Loamy phase _ 
8,640 
I 35.2 
Norfolk sand 
198,528; 
1 
Loamy phase- 
2,240 
) 31.3 
Leon fine sand 
53,120 
8.3 
Swamp 
32,640 
\l 
Marl subsoil phase_ 
6,400 
f 6.1 
Gainesville loamy sand 
24,320 
3.8 
Leon sand 
: 23,040 
3.6 
Gainesville fine sand__ 
17,280 
2.7 
Fellowship sandy loam 
14,720 
2.3 
Gainesville sandy loam 
11,200 
} 
Pinewoods phase_ 
2,560 
f 2.1 
Gainesville fine sandy 
loam 
8,640 
1.3 
Soil 
Acres 
Per ct. 
Portsmouth sand_ 
' 5,440 
.9 
Portsmouth fine sand 
5,440 
.9 
Fellowship fine sandy 
loam 
4,480 
.7 
Parkwood fine sandy 
loam _ _ 
1,920 
.3 
Parkwood clay loam__ 
1,280 
.2 
Fellowship clay 
960 
.1 
Fellowship sand 
640 
.1 
Fellowship clay loam. 
640 
.1 
Total 
641,280 
NORFOLK SAND. 
The Norfolk sand consists of medium-textured loose sand that 
extends to a depth of 3 feet or more. This constitutes one of the 
extensive deep sandy types of the area. Locally the greater part 
of the type comes under the popular classification of '‘rolling pine 
with blackjack” land, but this vegetative classification is not appli¬ 
cable to the whole of the type as mapped, as will be noted later. 
The Norfolk sand to an average depth of about 6 inches varies 
from a gray to light-gray loose sand, underlain by light yellowish 
gray or pale-yellow medium sand, which continues to a depth of 3 
or more feet. In some places the soil continues to a depth of several 
feet as sligfitly yellowish gray sand overlying more decidedly yellow 
sand. In other places the color is 3 decided yellow to orange yellow, 
with sometimes a quite noticeable reddish tinge. The surface is 
usually loose and only slightly coherent, the coherency being due to 
the small organic-matter content, which also imparts the darker 
color. The subsoil is.generally even more loose and incoherent than 
the soil, as it lacks the organic matter. While the texture in any 
one place is uniform throughout the soil profile, there are variations 
