IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Goss
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1990MO057069M
  • User Pedon ID: 1990MO057069
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9005769
  • 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: 37.4291667
  • Std. Longitude: -93.7761111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T31N
  • Range: R26W
  • Section: 15
  • PLSS Details: 1720 feet E and 580 feet S of the NW corner
  • Location Description: 1720 ft. East and 580 feet South of the Northwest corner of section 15, T. 31 N., R. 26 W.
  • Map Unit: 70009—Goss gravelly silt loam, 8 to 15 percent slopes
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO057—Dade
  • MLRA: 116B—Springfield Plain
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-SPM—Springfield, Missouri
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO057—Dade County, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Max Aldrich, R. D. Chorice, and Charles Harwood.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey-skeletal, mixed, mesic Typic Paleudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Goss
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/18/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Goss
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/10/1990
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: slope alluvium derived from cherty limestone and/or residuum weathered from cherty limestone
  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: limestone, cherty
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/10/1990 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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—25

    25—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

    7

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    296

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    240

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), light brown (7.5YR 6/4), dry; gravelly silt loam; moderate very fine platy structure; very friable; 6.0 fine roots; 18 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU014695
    BA—15 to 25 centimeters (5.9 to 9.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) gravelly silt loam; moderate very fine platy structure; firm; 6.0 fine roots; 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU014696
    Bt1—25 to 38 centimeters (9.8 to 15.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) very gravelly silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 4.0 fine roots; 24 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 35 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU014697. continuous - phpvsfiid 159037; continuous - phpvsfiid 159037
    Bt2—38 to 61 centimeters (15.0 to 24.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) very cobbly clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 4.0 fine roots; 24 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU014698. continuous - phpvsfiid 159038; continuous - phpvsfiid 159038
    2Bt3—61 to 112 centimeters (24.0 to 44.1 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) extremely cobbly clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 26 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 50 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU014699. continuous - phpvsfiid 159039; continuous - phpvsfiid 159039
    2Bt4—112 to 152 centimeters (44.1 to 59.8 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8) extremely cobbly clay; strong fine angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots; 26 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 50 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog. Lab sample # MU014700. continuous - phpvsfiid 159040; continuous - phpvsfiid 159040