IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Codorus
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1994VA167003
  • User Pedon ID: 94VA167003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 95P0082
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 67100
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 36.9452782
  • Std. Longitude: -82.1483612
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 300 feet southeast of old Cleveland Elementary School.
  • State: Virginia
  • County: VA167—Russell
  • MLRA: 128—Southern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VA167—Russell County, Virginia
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36082-H2—Carbo, Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: RRD
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Codorus
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed Fluvaquentic Dystrochrepts
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/25/1994
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: flood plain
  • Anthropogenic Feature: leveled land
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: occasional flooding for very brief periods begining in mar
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/25/1994 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 19
  • Microrelief Elevation: 0
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • 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

    cambic horizon

    mottles with chroma 2 or less

    0—20

    20—122

    76—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

    0

    823

    823

    477

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    0

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; semideformable; 21.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 5.0 fine moderate-continuity interstitial pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P00527
    Bw1—20 to 61 centimeters (7.9 to 24.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; semideformable; 3.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 5.0 very fine and fine moderate-continuity interstitial pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P00528
    Bw2—61 to 76 centimeters (24.0 to 29.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; semideformable; 0.5 fine and medium roots throughout; 5.0 very fine and fine moderate-continuity interstitial pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P00529
    Bw3—76 to 122 centimeters (29.9 to 48.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) interior loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; semideformable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and fine moderate-continuity interstitial pores; 10 percent medium spherical light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) ironstone nodules; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P00530
    C—122 to 152 centimeters (48.0 to 59.8 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior loam; massive; friable, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; semideformable; 2.0 very fine and fine moderate-continuity interstitial pores; 15 percent medium spherical light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) ironstone nodules; fragments. Lab sample # 95P00531