IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Goss
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1991MO167225
  • User Pedon ID: 1991MO167225
  • 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: 37.5185028
  • Std. Longitude: -93.5653083
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T32N
  • Range: R24W
  • Section: 9
  • PLSS Details: 1750'N AND 600'W OF THE SE CORNER
  • Map Unit: 70009—Goss gravelly silt loam, 8 to 15 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 - 61 to 111 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/18/1991
  • 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: 12/18/1991 ()
  • 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 Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—61

    61—203

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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

    2.5

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    1050

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    225

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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) rubbed gravelly silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; many very fine roots and many fine roots; 22 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary.
    E1—15 to 36 centimeters (5.9 to 14.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) rubbed very gravelly silt loam; moderate very fine granular structure; friable; common very fine roots and few fine roots; 58 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter chert fragments; gradual wavy boundary.
    E2—36 to 61 centimeters (14.2 to 24.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) rubbed extremely gravelly silt loam; moderate very fine granular structure; friable; common very fine roots; 70 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter chert fragments; gradual wavy boundary.
    Bt1—61 to 76 centimeters (24.0 to 29.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) rubbed and brown (7.5YR 4/4) rubbed extremely gravelly silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; few very fine roots; 30 percent distinct reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) clay films on all faces of peds; 68 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter chert fragments; gradual wavy boundary.
    Bt2—76 to 102 centimeters (29.9 to 40.2 inches); red (2.5YR 5/8) rubbed and yellowish red (5YR 4/6) rubbed very cobbly silty clay loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; firm; few very fine roots; 65 percent distinct reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) clay films on all faces of peds; 60 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter chert fragments; gradual wavy boundary.
    2Bt3—102 to 170 centimeters (40.2 to 66.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8) rubbed and red (10R 4/6) rubbed very cobbly silty clay; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; firm; few very fine roots; 65 percent prominent dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) clay films on all faces of peds; 55 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter chert fragments; gradual wavy boundary.
    2Bt4—170 to 203 centimeters (66.9 to 79.9 inches); red (10R 4/6) rubbed cobbly clay; strong medium angular blocky structure; firm; 65 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter chert fragments.