IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Goss
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1989MO053066M
  • User Pedon ID: 1989MO053066
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M8905366
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 38.7808333
  • Std. Longitude: -92.5838889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T46N
  • Range: R15W
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: 200 feet S and 2000 feet W of the NW corner
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO053—Cooper
  • MLRA: 116A—Ozark Highland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO053—Cooper County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38092-G5—Prairie Home, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: John Baker, Greg Caldwell, David Skaer
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey-skeletal Typic Paleudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Goss
  • PSC - 56 to 106 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/4/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Goss
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 56 to 106 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/7/2004
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey slope alluvium derived from chert
  • Landscape: upland
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/7/2004 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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—48

    48—160

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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

    21

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    249.9

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    180

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face gravelly silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 6.0 very fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 250-425-600 millimeter chert fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-30-75 millimeter chert fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU035288; observed in pit, small
    E—10 to 36 centimeters (3.9 to 14.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face very gravelly silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 6.0 medium roots throughout; 2 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 75-125-250 millimeter chert fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 250-425-600 millimeter chert fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-30-75 millimeter chert fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU035289
    BE—36 to 56 centimeters (14.2 to 22.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face very gravelly silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 6.0 medium roots throughout; 30 percent silt coats on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries on faces of peds; 10 percent by volume nonflat indurated 75-125-250 millimeter chert fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat indurated 250-425-600 millimeter chert fragments and 35 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-30-75 millimeter chert fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU035290
    Bt1—56 to 74 centimeters (22.0 to 29.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) broken face very gravelly silty clay loam; strong medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 10 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds and 10 percent silt coats on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume nonflat indurated 75-125-250 millimeter chert fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat indurated 250-425-600 millimeter chert fragments and 35 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-30-75 millimeter chert fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU035291
    Bt2—74 to 112 centimeters (29.1 to 44.1 inches); 50 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) broken face and 50 percent dark red (2.5YR 3/6) broken face very gravelly silty clay; strong fine angular blocky structure; very firm; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 15 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume nonflat indurated 250-425-600 millimeter chert fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-30-75 millimeter chert fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU035292
    2Bt3—112 to 152 centimeters (44.1 to 59.8 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) broken face gravelly clay; strong very fine angular blocky structure; very firm; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 15 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume nonflat indurated 75-125-250 millimeter chert fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-30-75 millimeter chert fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, hellige-truog. Lab sample # MU035293