IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Goss
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1991MO167143M
  • User Pedon ID: 1991MO167143
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9116732
  • 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: 37.6672556
  • Std. Longitude: -93.3707917
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T34N
  • Range: R22W
  • Section: 20
  • PLSS Details: 1100 feet E and 700 feet S of the NW corner
  • Location Description: 1100 feet east and 700 feet south of the northwest corner of sec. 20, T. 34 N., R. 22 W., Hacker.
  • Map Unit: 70010—Goss very cobbly silt loam, 15 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: Richard L. Henderson, John Bowers and Richard McBee
  • 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 - 51 to 101 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/18/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Goss
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 51 to 101 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/27/1991
  • 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: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: limestone, cherty
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/27/1991 (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—51

    51—152

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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

    18

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    296

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    80

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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) gravelly silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 10.0 fine roots; 3 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU015161
    E—13 to 51 centimeters (5.1 to 20.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) gravelly silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 10.0 fine roots; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU015162
    Bt1—51 to 71 centimeters (20.1 to 28.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) very gravelly clay loam; weak fine granular structure; firm; 10.0 fine roots; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU015163
    2Bt2—71 to 107 centimeters (28.0 to 42.1 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) very gravelly clay; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 60 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 35 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU015164
    2Bt3—107 to 140 centimeters (42.1 to 55.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) very gravelly clay; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU015165
    2Bt4—140 to 152 centimeters (55.1 to 59.8 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) and red (2.5YR 4/6) clay; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent iron-manganese masses; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # MU015166