IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Goss
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1985MO195001S
  • User Pedon ID: 1985MO195001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0652
  • Print Date: 3/13/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 38.9405556
  • Std. Longitude: -93.2580566
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T48N
  • Range: R22W
  • Section: 18
  • PLSS Details: 700 feet W and 2150 feet N of the SE corner
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO195—Saline
  • MLRA: 116B—Springfield Plain

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. Baker and K. Vogt
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey-skeletal, mixed, active, mesic Typic Paleudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Goss
  • PSC - 51 to 101 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Goss
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey-skeletal, mixed, mesic Typic Paleudalf
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 51 to 101 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1985
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from limestone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/1985 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—51

    51—168

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    Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    22

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    213

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    270

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior slightly decomposed plant material; weak fine granular structure; fragments.
    A—3 to 8 centimeters (1.2 to 3.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior, dark gray (10YR 4/1) interior, dry; gravelly silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 5.5 fine roots; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 75-162-250 millimeter chert fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-40-75 millimeter chert fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P03380. many fine roots
    E1—8 to 29 centimeters (3.1 to 11.4 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior gravelly silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 5.5 coarse roots; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 75-162-250 millimeter chert fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-40-75 millimeter chert fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P03381. many coarse roots
    E2—29 to 44 centimeters (11.4 to 17.3 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior very gravelly silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 5.5 coarse roots; 7 percent by volume nonflat indurated 75-162-250 millimeter chert fragments and 38 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-40-75 millimeter chert fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P03382. many coarse roots
    BE—44 to 54 centimeters (17.3 to 21.3 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior very gravelly silty clay loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 5.5 coarse roots; 7 percent by volume nonflat indurated 75-162-250 millimeter chert fragments and 43 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-40-75 millimeter chert fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P03383. many coarse roots
    Bt1—54 to 84 centimeters (21.3 to 33.1 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) interior very gravelly clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 2.5 medium roots; 15 percent distinct , moist, skeletans in root channels and/or pores and 37 percent distinct , moist, clay films on faces of peds; 7 percent by volume nonflat indurated 75-162-250 millimeter chert fragments and 43 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-40-75 millimeter chert fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P03384. common clay films surface features on faces of peds; few skeletans (sand or silt) surface features in root channels and/or pores; common medium roots
    Bt2—84 to 130 centimeters (33.1 to 51.2 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8) interior very gravelly clay; strong very fine subangular blocky structure; very firm; 2.5 medium roots; 15 percent distinct black (10YR 2/1), moist, black stains on faces of peds and 37 percent distinct , moist, clay films on faces of peds; 15 percent by volume nonflat indurated 75-162-250 millimeter chert fragments and 45 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-40-75 millimeter chert fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P03385. common clay films surface features on faces of peds; few black stains surface features on faces of peds; common medium roots
    Bt3—130 to 171 centimeters (51.2 to 67.3 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) interior clay; strong very fine subangular blocky structure; very firm; 2.5 medium roots; 15 percent distinct black (10YR 2/1), moist, black stains on faces of peds and 55 percent distinct , moist, clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-40-75 millimeter chert fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 85P03386. many clay films surface features on faces of peds; few black stains surface features on faces of peds; common medium roots