IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Goss
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1991MO167220
  • User Pedon ID: 1991MO167220
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 37.5003722
  • Std. Longitude: -93.5811167
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T32N
  • Range: R24W
  • Section: 16
  • Location Description: HAND PROBE REACHED DEPTHS OF 42", BACKHOE PIT SHOWED8; LONG PIT WITH lIMESTONE CLOSE TO THE SURFACE AND OF VARIABLE DEPTHS OF 18"-42".
  • 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-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 - 13 to 63 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/17/1991
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from 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: 12/17/1991 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

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    46 -

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—13

    13—46

    46—

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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

    1.5

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    180

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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) rubbed gravelly silt loam; weak very fine granular structure; friable; 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary.
    Bt1—13 to 28 centimeters (5.1 to 11.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) rubbed very gravelly silty clay loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 65 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 35 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary.
    Bt2—28 to 46 centimeters (11.0 to 18.1 inches); 5YR 4/8 (5YR 4/8) rubbed very cobbly clay; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 65 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 55 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary.
    R—46 centimeters (18.1 inches); bedrock; massive; fragments.