IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Goss
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1991MO167207
  • User Pedon ID: 1991MO167207
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 37.6671917
  • Std. Longitude: -93.3707778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T34N
  • Range: R22W
  • Section: 20
  • PLSS Details: 1100'E AND 700'S OF THE NW CORNER
  • Map Unit: 70010—Goss very cobbly silt loam, 15 to 35 percent slopes
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO167—Polk
  • MLRA: 116A—Ozark Highland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO167—Polk County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37093-F3—Polk, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey-skeletal, mixed, active, mesic Typic Paleudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Goss
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey-skeletal, mixed, active, mesic Typic Paleudalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 71 to 121 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/27/1991
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum and/or slope alluvium
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: crest
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/27/1991 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—71

    71—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

    18

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    970

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    90

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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) rubbed gravelly silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; many fine roots; 33 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary.
    E—13 to 51 centimeters (5.1 to 20.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) rubbed gravelly silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; many fine roots; 35 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary.
    BE—51 to 71 centimeters (20.1 to 28.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) rubbed and brown (7.5YR 4/4) rubbed very gravelly silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; many fine roots; 40 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter chert fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.
    Bt1—71 to 107 centimeters (28.0 to 42.1 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) rubbed very gravelly clay; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; firm; few fine roots; 65 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 35 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter chert fragments; gradual smooth boundary.
    Bt2—107 to 140 centimeters (42.1 to 55.1 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) rubbed and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) rubbed very gravelly clay; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; firm; few fine roots; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 45 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter chert fragments; gradual smooth boundary.
    Bt3—140 to 152 centimeters (55.1 to 59.8 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) rubbed and dark red (2.5YR 3/6) rubbed clay; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; firm; few fine roots; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct iron-manganese concretions; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter chert fragments.