IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Goss
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1990MO167087M
  • User Pedon ID: 1990MO167087
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9016702
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 37.4291667
  • Std. Longitude: -93.3022222
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T31N
  • Range: R22W
  • Section: 12
  • PLSS Details: 2000 feet E and 1950 feet S of the NW corner
  • Location Description: 2,000 feet east and 1,950 feet south of the northwest corner of section 12, T. 31 N., R. 22 W., Pleasant Hope Wildlife Area.
  • Map Unit: 70009—Goss gravelly silt loam, 8 to 15 percent slopes
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO167—Polk
  • MLRA: 116B—Springfield Plain
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-SPM—Springfield, Missouri
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO167—Polk County, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Larry Kichler, John Bowers and, Richard Henderson,
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey-skeletal, mixed Typic Paleudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Goss
  • PSC - 41 to 91 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/18/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Goss
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 41 to 91 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/17/1990
  • 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: backslope
  • 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: 4/17/1990 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - other
  • 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—41

    41—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

    9

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    361

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    30

    1041

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    13.3

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; gravelly silt loam; weak very fine granular structure; very friable; 6.0 medium and coarse roots; 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU014858
    E—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) very gravelly silt loam; weak very fine granular structure; very friable; 6.0 medium and coarse roots; 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU014859
    BE—25 to 41 centimeters (9.8 to 16.1 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4) very gravelly silt loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 3.0 fine to coarse roots; 20 percent faint silt coats on faces of peds; 25 percent fine strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU014860
    2Bt1—41 to 119 centimeters (16.1 to 46.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) and yellowish red (5YR 5/6) and red (10R 4/6) very cobbly clay; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 very fine roots; 55 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU014861
    2Bt2—119 to 152 centimeters (46.9 to 59.8 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/8) and red (2.5YR 5/8) and red (10R 4/8) very cobbly clay; moderate fine angular blocky structure; very firm; 55 percent prominent clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 30 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, hellige-truog. Lab sample # MU014862