IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Goss
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1997MO067139M
  • User Pedon ID: 1997MO067139
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 1997MO067139
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9706747
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 36.8163335
  • Std. Longitude: -92.8393311
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T25N
  • Range: R17W
  • Section: 31
  • PLSS Details: 50 feet W and 1500 feet S of the NE corner
  • Location Description: Comer farm just east of Comer cem. in the south-west part of the county. 50 ft west and 1500 ft south of the NE corner of Section 31, T25N, R17W
  • Map Unit: 73023—Mano-Ocie complex, 1 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO067—Douglas
  • MLRA: 116A—Ozark Highland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO067—Douglas County, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: WLS and GWS
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey-skeletal, mixed Typic Paleudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • 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 - 38 to 88 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/18/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rueter
  • Taxon Kind - variant
  • PSC - 38 to 88 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/22/1997
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: slope alluvium over residuum
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/22/1997 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 2249-54
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    PAVI2

    Panicum virgatum

    switchgrass

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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—38

    38—152

    152—0

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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

    5

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    325

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    75

    1092

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    12.8

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    5227

    Mansfield

    TAPS
    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; gravelly silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; very friable; 5.0 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 1.0 very fine discontinuous tubular pores; 25 percent by volume angular 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU057471
    A—13 to 25 centimeters (5.1 to 9.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/4), dry; gravelly silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 5.0 very fine roots; 1.0 very fine discontinuous tubular pores; 15 percent by volume angular 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU057472
    BA—25 to 38 centimeters (9.8 to 15.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), pink (7.5YR 7/3), dry; very gravelly silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 5.0 very fine roots; 1.0 very fine discontinuous tubular pores; 30 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4) clay films on rock fragments; 40 percent by volume angular 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU057473. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 128501; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 128501
    Bt1—38 to 51 centimeters (15.0 to 20.1 inches); 70 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) and 30 percent brown (7.5YR 5/4) gravelly loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 4.0 very fine and fine roots; 2.0 very fine discontinuous tubular pores; 15 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) clay films on rock fragments and 40 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4) clay films on faces of peds; 25 percent by volume angular 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU057474. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 128502; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 128503; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 128502; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 128503
    Bt2—51 to 66 centimeters (20.1 to 26.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) extremely cobbly silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine and fine roots around fragments; 20 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) clay films on rock fragments; 25 percent by volume angular 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 35 percent by volume angular 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU057475. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 128504; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 128504
    2Bt31—66 to 91 centimeters (26.0 to 35.8 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) extremely cobbly clay; moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots; 80 percent prominent red (2.5YR 4/6) clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume angular 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume angular 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 50 percent by volume angular 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # MU057476. Cobbles are bedded layers of fractured chert. The 5 percent angular gravel is para material.; continuous - phpvsfiid 128513; continuous - phpvsfiid 128513
    2Bt32—91 to 119 centimeters (35.8 to 46.9 inches); extremely cobbly clay; 5 percent by volume angular 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume angular 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 50 percent by volume angular 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU057477
    2Bt4—119 to 152 centimeters (46.9 to 59.8 inches); 90 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) and 10 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) clay; moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; very firm; 0.2 very fine roots; 80 percent prominent red (2.5YR 4/6) clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume angular 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, hellige-truog. Lab sample # MU057478. continuous - phpvsfiid 128514; continuous - phpvsfiid 128514
    2R—152 centimeters (59.8 inches); bedrock; fragments. Appeared to be a chert bed, couldn't dig or drive a tile probe through the chert.