IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Goss
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1991MO057025M
  • User Pedon ID: 1991MO057025
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9105725
  • 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: 37.4294444
  • Std. Longitude: -93.7772222
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T31N
  • Range: R26W
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: 900 feet N and 2600 feet W of the SE corner
  • Location Description: 900 feet north and 2600 feet west of the southeast corner of sec. 10, T. 31 N., R. 26 W.
  • Map Unit: 70041—Goss very 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 and Charles Harwood
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey-skeletal, mixed, mesic 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 - 4/10/1991
  • 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: 4/10/1991 (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—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

    14

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    294

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    270

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) very gravelly silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 6.0 fine roots; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU040703
    E—13 to 23 centimeters (5.1 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) very cobbly silt loam; strong fine granular structure; friable; 4.0 fine roots; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU040704
    BE—23 to 41 centimeters (9.1 to 16.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) very cobbly silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 30 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU040705
    Bt1—41 to 56 centimeters (16.1 to 22.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) very cobbly silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 24 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 30 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; neutral, pH 6.7, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU040706. continuous - phpvsfiid 153442; continuous - phpvsfiid 153442
    2Bt2—56 to 76 centimeters (22.0 to 29.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) very cobbly silty clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 26 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 25 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU040707. continuous - phpvsfiid 153443; continuous - phpvsfiid 153443
    2Bt3—76 to 107 centimeters (29.9 to 42.1 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) very cobbly clay; strong medium angular blocky structure; firm; 26 percent distinct 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; neutral, pH 6.7, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU040708. continuous - phpvsfiid 153658; continuous - phpvsfiid 153658
    2Bt4—107 to 152 centimeters (42.1 to 59.8 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) very cobbly clay; strong medium angular blocky structure; firm; 26 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 50 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # MU040709. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 153659; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 153659