IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Goss
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2008MO187058M
  • User Pedon ID: 2008MO187058
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2008MO187058
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0818758
  • 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: 37.7985000
  • Std. Longitude: -90.4776944
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO187—St. Francois
  • MLRA: 116C—St. Francois Knobs and Basins
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO187—St. Francois County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37090-G4—Farmington, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: John Horton, Keith Knelle
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Oxyaquic Fragiudalfs
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 58
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Goss
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Oxyaquic Fragiudalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 15 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/2/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - first edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - oxyaquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty loess derived from mixed over clayey residuum weathered from mixed
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Holocene Stage formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/2/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 37090g4
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and 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

    QUVE

    PIEC2

    Quercus velutina

    Pinus echinata

    black oak

    shortleaf pine

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

    fragipan

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    67 - 112

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

    argillic horizon

    fragipan

    15—65

    67—112

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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

    8

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    160

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    A—0 to 7 centimeters (0.0 to 2.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 10.0 fine interstitial pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    BE—7 to 15 centimeters (2.8 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) broken face silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—15 to 39 centimeters (5.9 to 15.4 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 35 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist, clay films; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—39 to 57 centimeters (15.4 to 22.4 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 35 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 1 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bt3—57 to 67 centimeters (22.4 to 26.4 inches); gray (2.5Y 5/1) broken face very gravelly silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine vesicular pores; 35 percent distinct gray (2.5Y 5/1), moist, clay films and 95 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, silt coats; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 40 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    2Btx1—67 to 90 centimeters (26.4 to 35.4 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face extremely gravelly silt loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine vesicular pores; 12 percent faint gray (2.5Y 5/1), moist, clay films and 95 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, silt coats; 75 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    2Btx2—90 to 112 centimeters (35.4 to 44.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) broken face very gravelly silt loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine vesicular pores; 35 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist, clay films; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 50 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    3Bt1—112 to 150 centimeters (44.1 to 59.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face gravelly clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium prismatic structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine vesicular pores; 35 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist, clay films; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark red (2.5YR 3/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 25 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    3Bt2—150 to 180 centimeters (59.1 to 70.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face gravelly silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate coarse prismatic structure; very firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine vesicular pores; 35 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark red (2.5YR 3/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 75-?-250 millimeter chert fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    3Bt3—180 to 200 centimeters (70.9 to 78.7 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face gravelly silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate coarse prismatic structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine vesicular pores; 35 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented 5YR 3/6 (5YR 3/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 75-?-250 millimeter chert fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments.; observed in pit, small