IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Goss
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1991MO167210
  • User Pedon ID: 1991MO167210
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 37.5709500
  • Std. Longitude: -93.5874750
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T33N
  • Range: R24W
  • Section: 29
  • PLSS Details: 2800'E AND 400'S OF THE NW CORNER
  • Map Unit: 70011—Goss-Moko complex, 8 to 35 percent slopes
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO167—Polk
  • MLRA: 116B—Springfield Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO167—Polk County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37093-E5—Aldrich, 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 - 23 to 73 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/20/1991
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from cherty limestone
  • 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: 3/20/1991 ()
  • 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—23

    23—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

    13

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    900

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    180

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) rubbed very gravelly silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; many fine roots and few coarse roots; 70 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary.
    E—5 to 23 centimeters (2.0 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) rubbed very gravelly silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; common medium roots and common fine roots and few coarse roots; 57 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear wavy boundary.
    Bt1—23 to 71 centimeters (9.1 to 28.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) rubbed very gravelly clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; common medium roots and few fine roots and few coarse roots; 50 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter chert fragments; gradual smooth boundary.
    Bt2—71 to 152 centimeters (28.0 to 59.8 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) rubbed gravelly clay; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; firm; common medium roots and few coarse roots; 33 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter chert fragments.