IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Goss
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1990MO053049M
  • User Pedon ID: 1990MO053049
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9005349
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 38.7503056
  • Std. Longitude: -92.6270833
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T46N
  • Range: R16W
  • Section: 13
  • PLSS Details: 1874 feet E and 1309 feet S of the N W corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO053—Cooper
  • MLRA: 116A—Ozark Highland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO053—Cooper County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38092-G6—Lone Elm, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J L Baker, Greg Caldwell, David Skaer, Aaron Woods
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, mixed, active, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 49
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Goss
  • PSC - 30 to 71 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - BARDLEY
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 30 to 71 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/17/1990
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty loess derived from mixed over clayey residuum weathered from dolomite
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent slight weathered dolomite (dolostone) at 71cm with <10 and a strike of 0 degrees and a dip of 0 to 0 degrees
  • Geology: Holocene Stage formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/17/1990 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 38092g6se
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion gully
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

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    71 - 71

    - 1 -

    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    albic horizon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—8

    8—30

    30—61

    71—71

    —8—

    —22—

    —31—

    —1—
    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

    19

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    210

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    270

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior very gravelly silt loam; weak very fine granular structure; friable; 5 percent by volume nonflat very strongly coherent cemented 250-?-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat very strongly coherent cemented 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU037659; observed in push tube
    E1—8 to 18 centimeters (3.1 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior extremely gravelly silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 10.0 very fine roots and 10.0 fine roots; 35 percent distinct silt coats; 10 percent by volume nonflat very strongly coherent cemented 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat very strongly coherent cemented 250-?-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume nonflat very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU037660; observed in push tube
    E2—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior extremely gravelly silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots and 3.0 fine roots; 18 percent distinct silt coats; 10 percent by volume nonflat very strongly coherent cemented 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat very strongly coherent cemented 250-?-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume nonflat very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU037661; observed in push tube
    2Bt1—30 to 43 centimeters (11.8 to 16.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) interior gravelly clay; strong very fine subangular blocky structure; very firm; 3.0 fine roots; 35 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent by volume nonflat very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU037662; observed in push tube
    2Bt2—43 to 61 centimeters (16.9 to 24.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/6) interior clay; strong very fine subangular blocky structure; very firm; 3.0 fine roots; 35 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU037663; observed in push tube
    2BC—61 to 71 centimeters (24.0 to 28.0 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) interior silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very firm; 3.0 very fine roots; 35 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU037664; observed in push tube
    2R—71 to 71 centimeters (28.0 to 28.0 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in push tube