IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Goss
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1995MO223027M
  • User Pedon ID: 1995MO223027
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9522327
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 37.2144661
  • Std. Longitude: -90.2205582
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 73055—Alred-Rueter complex, 15 to 35 percent slopes, very stony11F—Alred-Rueter complex, 15 to 35 percent slopes, very stony
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO223—Wayne
  • MLRA: 116A—Ozark Highland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO223—Wayne County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37090-B2—Gipsy, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: DH, RT and KG
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey-skeletal, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Paleudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Goss
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/7/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Goss
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/17/1995
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 39 Cation Exc. to Clay x100


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: slope alluvium derived from mixed over residuum weathered from cherty limestone
  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: valley side
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/17/1995 (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—25

    25—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

    24

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    155

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    240

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; very gravelly silt loam; moderate very fine and fine granular structure; friable; 10.0 very fine to medium roots and 2.0 coarse roots; 10.0 very fine vesicular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-162-250 millimeter chert fragments and 35 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-40-75 millimeter chert fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU054138
    E—8 to 25 centimeters (3.1 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/4), dry; gravelly silt loam; moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 very fine to medium roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 10.0 very fine vesicular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-162-250 millimeter chert fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-40-75 millimeter chert fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU054139
    2Bt1—25 to 61 centimeters (9.8 to 24.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) very gravelly silty clay loam; moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 10.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 0.5 very fine vesicular pores; 10 percent distinct black (10YR 2/1) manganese or iron-manganese stains on rock fragments and 20 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent fine and medium black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese masses; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-162-250 millimeter chert fragments and 50 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-40-75 millimeter chert fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU054140. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 137740; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 137741; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 137740; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 137741
    2Bt2—61 to 97 centimeters (24.0 to 38.2 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) very gravelly clay loam; moderate very fine and fine angular blocky structure; firm; 5.0 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 very fine vesicular pores; 10 percent distinct black (10YR 2/1) manganese or iron-manganese stains on rock fragments and 20 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent fine and medium black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese masses; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-162-250 millimeter chert fragments and 50 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-40-75 millimeter chert fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU054141. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 137742; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 137743; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 137742; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 137743
    2Bt3—97 to 147 centimeters (38.2 to 57.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) very gravelly clay loam; moderate very fine and fine angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 very fine vesicular pores; 30 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-162-250 millimeter chert fragments and 50 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-40-75 millimeter chert fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU054142. continuous - phpvsfiid 137744; continuous - phpvsfiid 137744
    2Bt4—147 to 203 centimeters (57.9 to 79.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) very gravelly clay; moderate very fine and fine angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine vesicular pores; 30 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-162-250 millimeter chert fragments and 50 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-40-75 millimeter chert fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, hellige-truog. Lab sample # MU054143. continuous - phpvsfiid 137745; continuous - phpvsfiid 137745