IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Goss
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1991MO167214
  • User Pedon ID: 1991MO167214
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 37.4998694
  • Std. Longitude: -93.5811806
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T32N
  • Range: R24W
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: 300'E AND 175'N OF THE SW CORNER
  • Map Unit: 70010—Goss very cobbly silt loam, 15 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-D5—Walnut Grove, 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 - 38 to 88 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/1/1991
  • 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: 12/1/1991 ()
  • 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—38

    38—168

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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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    1050

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    45

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) rubbed very cobbly silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 50 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear wavy boundary.
    E—10 to 38 centimeters (3.9 to 15.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) rubbed very cobbly silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 60 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter chert fragments; gradual wavy boundary.
    Bt1—38 to 64 centimeters (15.0 to 25.2 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) rubbed extremely gravelly silty clay loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 10 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 65 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear wavy boundary.
    2Bt2—64 to 86 centimeters (25.2 to 33.9 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) rubbed extremely gravelly silty clay; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 65 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 40 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter chert fragments; gradual wavy boundary.
    2Bt3—86 to 127 centimeters (33.9 to 50.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) rubbed clay; 15 percent dark red (2.5YR 3/6) fine prominent mottles; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; very firm; 65 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 8 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter chert fragments; gradual wavy boundary.
    2Bt4—127 to 168 centimeters (50.0 to 66.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) rubbed cobbly clay; 15 percent dark red (2.5YR 3/6) coarse prominent mottles; strong very fine angular blocky structure; very firm; 65 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 25 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear wavy boundary.