IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Goss
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1991MO167228
  • User Pedon ID: 1991MO167228
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Print Date: 1/30/2025

    • 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: 37.4599528
  • Std. Longitude: -93.5422417
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T32N
  • Range: R24W
  • Section: 35
  • PLSS Details: 1800'N AND 1400'E OF THE SW CORNER
  • Map Unit: 70008—Goss gravelly silt loam, 3 to 8 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 - 51 to 101 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/18/1991
  • 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?: no

    • 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—30

    30—173

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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

    3

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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) rubbed gravelly silt loam; 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter chert fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.
    E—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); weak red (7.5R 5/4) rubbed gravelly silt loam; 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter chert fragments; gradual smooth boundary.
    Bt1—51 to 60 centimeters (20.1 to 23.6 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) rubbed gravelly silty clay loam; 35 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary.
    Bt2—51 to 102 centimeters (20.1 to 40.2 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) rubbed gravelly silty clay; 40 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary.
    2Bt3—102 to 147 centimeters (40.2 to 57.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) rubbed very gravelly clay; 50 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary.
    2Bt4—147 to 173 centimeters (57.9 to 68.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) rubbed gravelly clay; 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter chert fragments.