IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Goss
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2006MO027062
  • User Pedon ID: 2006MO027062
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2006MO02762
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - 16E-1
  • Transect Stop Number - 3
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0602762
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25516
  • 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: 38.7418889
  • Std. Longitude: -91.7771944
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T46N
  • Range: R8W
  • Section: 24
  • PLSS Details: 670 feet East and 2,530 feet North from the South West 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-F7—Mokane East, Missouri
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Wyn Kelley, LeAnn Bullard, Larry Slechta, Amber Marshaus
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, superactive, mesic Aquertic Chromic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 62
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Goss
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, superactive, mesic Aquertic Chromic Hapludalfs
  • PSC - 56 to 107 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/8/2006
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty and clayey residuum weathered from limestone
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Cheltenham Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/8/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 38091f7ne
  • 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

    QUERC

    CARYA

    ACER

    Quercus

    Carya

    Acer

    oak

    hybrid hickory

    maple

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

    bedrock, lithic

    abrupt textural change

    0 -

    56 - 56

    - 1 -

    - 1 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    lithic contact

    argillic horizon

    abrupt textural change

    0—56

    0—

    56—142

    56—56

    —56—

    —1—

    —86—

    —1—

    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

    22

    246

    55

    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); 70 percent brown (10YR 4/3) broken face and 30 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 10.0 very fine tubular and 10.0 fine tubular and 0.5 coarse tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU002951; observed in pit, small
    E—15 to 56 centimeters (5.9 to 22.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 medium tubular and 10.0 fine tubular pores; 35 percent distinct light gray (10YR 7/1), dry, silt coats; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 1 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 250-?-600 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-?-5 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU002952; observed in pit, small
    2Btg1—56 to 81 centimeters (22.0 to 31.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; 0.5 medium tubular and 10.0 fine tubular pores; 12 percent distinct very pale brown (10YR 8/2), dry, sand coats and 70 percent prominent brown (7.5YR 5/3), moist, clay films; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 5-?-20 millimeter chert fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 75-?-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU002953; observed in pit, small
    2Btg2—81 to 102 centimeters (31.9 to 40.2 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 70 percent prominent brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist, clay films; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 1 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU002954; observed in pit, small
    3Bt1—102 to 142 centimeters (40.2 to 55.9 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8) broken face clay; moderate medium angular blocky, and weak thick platy structure; very firm; 12 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, pressure faces and 70 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 1 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 75-?-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-?-5 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU002955; observed in pit, small
    3BC—142 to 206 centimeters (55.9 to 81.1 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) broken face silt loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments. Lab sample # MU002956; observed in pit, small