IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Goss
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1992MO167282M
  • User Pedon ID: 1992MO167282
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9216738
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: 37.5735528
  • Std. Longitude: -93.5861583
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T33N
  • Range: R24W
  • Section: 20
  • PLSS Details: 410 feet N and 2100 feet W of the SE corner
  • Location Description: 410 feet north and 2100 feet west of the southeast corner of sec. 20, T. 33 N., R. 24 W
  • 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

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Larry Kickler, John Bowers, Richard McBee and Richard L. Henderson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey-skeletal, mixed Typic Paleudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Goss
  • PSC - 43 to 93 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/18/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Goss
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 43 to 93 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/28/1992
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: slope alluvium derived from cherty limestone and/or residuum weathered from cherty limestone
  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: limestone, cherty
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/28/1992 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—43

    43—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

    14

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    283

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    100

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    A1—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 10.0 fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU015975
    A2—15 to 43 centimeters (5.9 to 16.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) cobbly silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU015976
    2Bt1—43 to 58 centimeters (16.9 to 22.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) extremely cobbly silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 60 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 40 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU015977
    2Bt2—58 to 91 centimeters (22.8 to 35.8 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) extremely cobbly clay; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 40 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU015978
    2Bt3—91 to 160 centimeters (35.8 to 63.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) extremely cobbly clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots; 40 percent distinct manganese or iron-manganese stains and 60 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 60 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU015979
    2Bt4—160 to 168 centimeters (63.0 to 66.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) and red (2.5YR 4/6) gravelly clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots; 40 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 3 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # MU015980