IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Goss
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1997MO203054M
  • User Pedon ID: 1997MO203054M
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 1997MO203054M
  • User Site Association ID: 8629
  • Transect:
  • Transect Stop Number - 11
  • Transect Interval - 200.0
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9761354
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 27803
  • Print Date: 6/1/2024

    • 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: 37.1663361
  • Std. Longitude: -91.1728639
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO203—Shannon
  • MLRA: 116A—Ozark Highland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO203—Shannon County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37091-B2—Powder Mill Ferry, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: RLT,DM
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey-skeletal, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Paleudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Goss
  • PSC - 10 to 60 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/10/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Goss
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey-skeletal, mixed, active, mesic Typic Paleudalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 10 to 60 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/24/1997
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 44 percent of Percent clay in the control section and 37 Percent rock fragments in the control section (vol)


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: slope alluvium residuum
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Bedrock: dolomite (dolostone)
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/24/1997 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 15
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    CASTA2

    CORNU

    JUVI

    VIBUR

    Castanopsis

    Cornus

    Juniperus virginiana

    Viburnum

    chinkapin

    dogwood

    eastern redcedar

    viburnum

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—10

    10—218

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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

    30

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    50

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) gravelly silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 7.0 fine to coarse roots; 7.0 fine interstitial and tubular pores; 35 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-40-75 millimeter chert fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU018887
    Bt1—10 to 38 centimeters (3.9 to 15.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) very gravelly silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine to coarse roots; 7.0 fine to coarse tubular pores; 15 percent distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/6) clay films on faces of peds and 15 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt coats on faces of peds; 35 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-40-75 millimeter chert fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU018888
    2Bt2—38 to 84 centimeters (15.0 to 33.1 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) very gravelly clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.9 fine to coarse roots; 3.0 fine to coarse tubular pores; 15 percent distinct red (2.5YR 4/6) clay films on all faces of peds; 40 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-40-75 millimeter chert fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU018889
    2Bt3—84 to 119 centimeters (33.1 to 46.9 inches); 80 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) and 20 percent red (2.5YR 4/8) very gravelly clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 0.9 fine and medium roots; 3.0 fine and medium tubular and 0.9 coarse tubular pores; 75 percent distinct red (2.5YR 4/6) clay films on all faces of peds; 35 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-40-75 millimeter chert fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU018890
    2Bt4—119 to 147 centimeters (46.9 to 57.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) gravelly clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; very firm; 0.9 fine roots; 3.0 fine and medium tubular pores; 15 percent distinct yellowish red (5YR 4/6) clay films on faces of peds and 75 percent prominent reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) clay films on faces of peds; 18 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-40-75 millimeter chert fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU018891
    2Bt5—147 to 170 centimeters (57.9 to 66.9 inches); weak red (10R 4/4) clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 0.9 fine roots; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 15 percent distinct reddish brown (5YR 5/4) clay films on faces of peds and 35 percent prominent red (10R 4/6) nonintersecting slickensides on faces of peds and 35 percent distinct red (2.5YR 4/6) clay films on faces of peds and 75 percent prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU018892
    2Bt6—170 to 218 centimeters (66.9 to 85.8 inches); red (10R 4/6) clay; 15 percent bluish gray (5B 6/1) fine prominent mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very firm; 0.9 fine roots; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 45 percent distinct dark reddish gray (2.5YR 4/1) clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU018893