IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Goss
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1990MO053041
  • User Pedon ID: 1990MO053041
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9005341
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 30964
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: 38.8174167
  • Std. Longitude: -92.7796389
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T47N
  • Range: R17W
  • Section: 22
  • PLSS Details: 150 feet N and 15 feet E of the SW corner
  • Map Unit: 60112—Goss gravelly silt loam, 14 to 45 percent slopes
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO053—Cooper
  • MLRA: 115—Central Mississippi Valley Wooded Slopes
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO053—Cooper County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38092-G7—Bunceton, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: John L. Baker, Greg Caldwell, Dave Skaer
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey-skeletal, mixed, mesic Typic Paleudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Goss
  • PSC - 71 to 122 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/4/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Goss
  • Classificaton Date - 2/8/2005
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium and residuum from cherty limestone or cherty dolostone and some interbedded shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/8/2005 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—51

    71—152

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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

    16

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    234.7

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    180

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    A—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) exterior gravelly silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; moderate permeability; 5.0 fine roots; 40 percent distinct organic stains; 2 percent by volume 76-163-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 2-39-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU037623; slightly dry when described; observed in pit, small
    E—18 to 51 centimeters (7.1 to 20.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) exterior very gravelly silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 5.0 fine roots; 70 percent distinct silt coats on all faces of peds; 15 percent by volume nonflat indurated 76-163-250 millimeter chert fragments and 40 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-40-76 millimeter chert fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU037624; observed in pit, small
    BE—51 to 71 centimeters (20.1 to 28.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) exterior very gravelly silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 5.0 medium roots; 40 percent distinct silt coats on all faces of peds; 25 percent by volume nonflat indurated 76-163-250 millimeter chert fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-40-76 millimeter chert fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU037625; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—71 to 97 centimeters (28.0 to 38.2 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) exterior very gravelly silty clay loam; strong fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 5.0 medium roots; 15 percent distinct silt coats on all faces of peds and 15 percent distinct silt coats on surfaces along root channels and 40 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 25 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-40-76 millimeter chert fragments and 35 percent by volume nonflat indurated 76-163-250 millimeter chert fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU037626; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—97 to 122 centimeters (38.2 to 48.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) exterior very gravelly silty clay; strong fine subangular blocky structure; very firm; 5.0 medium roots; 70 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent by volume nonflat indurated 250-425-600 millimeter chert fragments and 35 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-40-76 millimeter chert fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU037627; observed in pit, small
    Bt3—122 to 152 centimeters (48.0 to 59.8 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) exterior very gravelly clay; strong very fine angular blocky structure; very firm; 3.0 medium roots; 70 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 76-163-250 millimeter chert fragments and 40 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-40-76 millimeter chert fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8. Lab sample # MU037628; observed in pit, small