IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Goss
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1991MO057042M
  • User Pedon ID: 1991MO057042
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9105742
  • 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: 37.3730222
  • Std. Longitude: -93.8307639
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T30N
  • Range: R26W
  • Section: 6
  • PLSS Details: 300 feet S and 2400 feet W of the NE corner
  • Location Description: 300 feet south and 2400 feet west of the northeast corner sec. 6, T. 30 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
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO057—Dade County, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Max Aldrich, Charles Harwood and R. D. Chorice
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey-skeletal, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: variant
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Goss
  • PSC - 15 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/18/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Goss
  • Taxon Kind - variant
  • PSC - 15 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/25/1991
  • 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 and/or solid rock derived 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: 6/25/1991 (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

    lithic contact

    0—15

    15—137

    137—203

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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

    13

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    294

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    90

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; gravelly silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; very friable; 10.0 fine roots; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU014913
    Bt1—15 to 33 centimeters (5.9 to 13.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) gravelly silt loam; strong medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 fine roots; 10 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent fine spherical iron-manganese concretions; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU014914
    Bt2—33 to 53 centimeters (13.0 to 20.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) very gravelly silty clay loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 5 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains on rock fragments and 30 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 50 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU014915
    2Bt3—53 to 76 centimeters (20.9 to 29.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8) extremely gravelly clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent fine iron-manganese masses; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 20 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 40 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU014916
    2Bt4—76 to 112 centimeters (29.9 to 44.1 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) very gravelly clay; strong medium angular blocky structure; firm; 60 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 25 percent fine and medium iron-manganese masses; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU014917
    2Bt5—112 to 137 centimeters (44.1 to 53.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) very gravelly silty clay loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 60 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 10 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7, hellige-truog. Lab sample # MU014918
    2R—137 centimeters (53.9 inches); bedrock; fragments.