The hydric soil definition and hydric soil criteria are often insutticient for use in field identification/ delineation ofhydric soils. This paper traces the experiences soil scientists and other wetland scientists had in Florida to properly identify, understand, and use hydric soil indicators to identify those soils that fit both the hydric soil definition and the hydric soil criteria. The hydric soil indicators that properly identify soils that fit the definition and criteria in Florida are as follows: hydrogen sulfide, organic bodies, stratified layers, muck, mucky texture, dark surface, stripped matrix, redox concentrations, gleyed matrix, depleted matrix, iron manganese masses, umbric epipedon, thick mollic epipedon, or marl. Exact thicknesses, depths, percemages, and colors that are required for each of the hydric soil indicators have been developed. Because of the knowledge gained from intense observations of morphological features in soils for hydric soil determinations scientists were able to transfer this technological ability to include the estimation of seasonal high water tables for all soils in Florida.

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