IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Goss
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1992MO057073M
  • User Pedon ID: 1992MO057073
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9205773
  • 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: 37.3735000
  • Std. Longitude: -93.7681306
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T31N
  • Range: R26W
  • Section: 35
  • PLSS Details: 500 feet E and 400 feet N of the SE corner
  • Location Description: 500 feet east and 400 feet north of the southeast corner of section 35, T. 31 N., R. 26 W.
  • Map Unit: 70008—Goss gravelly silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO057—Dade
  • MLRA: 116B—Springfield Plain
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-SPM—Springfield, Missouri
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO057—Dade County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37093-C7—South Greenfield, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Charles Harwood and R. D. Chorice
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, thermic Typic Paleudolls
  • 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 - 15 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/18/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Eldon
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 15 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/10/1992
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy slope alluvium derived from sedimentary rock over clayey residuum weathered from cherty limestone
  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: indurated limestone, cherty at 147cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/21/1992 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—43

    15—152

    152—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

    7

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    321.6

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    135

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; gravelly silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; very friable; 4.0 fine and medium roots; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU044737
    Bt1—15 to 43 centimeters (5.9 to 16.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) gravelly silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 4.0 fine and medium roots; 8 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU044738
    Bt2—43 to 64 centimeters (16.9 to 25.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) and strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) gravelly silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 4.0 fine and medium roots; 8 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU044739
    Bt3—64 to 81 centimeters (25.2 to 31.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) very cobbly clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 4.0 fine and medium roots; 30 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU044740
    2Bt4—81 to 107 centimeters (31.9 to 42.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) very cobbly clay; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; firm; 4.0 fine roots; 55 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent fine iron-manganese masses; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU044741
    2Bt5—107 to 152 centimeters (42.1 to 59.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) gravelly clay; moderate fine angular blocky structure; firm; 0.8 fine roots; 1 percent distinct manganese or iron-manganese stains and 55 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent fine and medium iron-manganese masses; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU044742. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 153641; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 153641
    2R—152 centimeters (59.8 inches); bedrock; fragments.