IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Goss
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2006MO027080
  • User Pedon ID: 2006MO027080
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2006MO02780
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - 13D-2
  • Transect Stop Number - 6
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0602780
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25518
  • 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: 38.7517778
  • Std. Longitude: -91.7605833
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T46N
  • Range: R8W
  • Section: 13
  • PLSS Details: 49 feet West and 716 feet North from the South East corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO027—Callaway
  • MLRA: 115—Central Mississippi Valley Wooded Slopes
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO027—Callaway County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38091-G7—Reform, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Wyn Kelley, Larry Slechta, LeAnn Bullard, Amber Marshaus
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active, mesic Lithic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 80
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Goss
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, active, mesic Lithic Hapludalfs
  • PSC - 13 to 38 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/27/2006
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty colluvium derived from mixed over clayey residuum weathered from limestone
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated moderate weathered limestone, unspecified at 38cm with <10 and a strike of 0 degrees and a dip of 0 to 0 degrees
  • Geology: Burlington Limestone formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/27/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 38091g7se
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion sheet
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    QUMU

    ULRU

    JUVI

    Quercus muehlenbergii

    Ulmus rubra

    Juniperus virginiana

    chinquapin oak

    slippery elm

    eastern redcedar

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

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    38 -

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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—13

    13—38

    38—

    —13—

    —25—

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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

    20

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    217.9

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    245

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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 10.0 very fine roots and 3.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 10.0 very fine and 10.0 fine pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU002960; observed in trench
    Bt—13 to 38 centimeters (5.1 to 15.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face gravelly silty clay loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; very firm; 3.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots; 3.0 very fine and 3.0 fine pores; 12 percent faint very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films; 25 percent by volume nonflat very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU002961; observed in trench
    R—38 to 38 centimeters (15.0 to 15.0 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in trench