IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Goss
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1991MO167167M
  • User Pedon ID: 1991MO167167
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9116727
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: 37.6393639
  • Std. Longitude: -93.5671361
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T24N
  • Range: R34W
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: 2800 feet W and 1800 feet S of the NE corner
  • Location Description: 2800 feet west and 1800 feet south of the northeast corner of sec. 33, T. 24 N., R. 34 W., Don Henderson.
  • Map Unit: 70008—Goss gravelly silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO167—Polk
  • MLRA: 116B—Springfield Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO167—Polk County, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Larry E. Kickler, John Bowers and Richard McBee
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, mixed Typic Paleudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Goss
  • PSC - 36 to 86 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/18/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gepp
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 36 to 86 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/6/1991
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: solifluctate derived from cherty limestone and/or residuum weathered from cherty limestone
  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: limestone, cherty
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/6/1991 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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—36

    36—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

    3

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    332

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    180

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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 10.0 fine and medium roots; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU043067
    E—13 to 36 centimeters (5.1 to 14.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) very gravelly silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 10.0 fine roots; 50 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU043068
    2Bt1—36 to 89 centimeters (14.2 to 35.0 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 fine and medium roots; 30 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU043069
    2Bt2—89 to 152 centimeters (35.0 to 59.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and red (2.5YR 4/8) clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 medium roots; 30 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog. Lab sample # MU043070