IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Coursey
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1994VA167007
  • User Pedon ID: 94VA167007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 95P0086
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 67104
  • Print Date: 4/24/2025

    • 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: 36.7366104
  • Std. Longitude: -82.3233643
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 700 feet south/southeast of the intersection of VA 612 and VA 613 at Collinwood.
  • 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-F3—Mendota, 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 #: 7
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Coursey
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy over fragmental, siliceous Typic Hapludults
  • PSC - 30 to 56 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/29/1994
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: slough
  • Anthropogenic Feature: leveled land
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: rare flooding for very brief periods begining in mar
  • Wet Soil Moisture Duration: 40
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/29/1994 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 50
  • 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

    argillic horizon

    mottles with chroma 2 or less

    0—30

    30—91

    91—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

    2

    61

    0

    553

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    Ap—0 to 30 centimeters (0.0 to 11.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior sandy loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; semideformable; 3.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 5.0 very fine and fine moderate-continuity interstitial pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P00545
    Bt1—30 to 61 centimeters (11.8 to 24.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, noncoherent, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; semideformable; 3.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 4.0 very fine and fine moderate-continuity interstitial pores; 10 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 5/4) clay films on faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P00546. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 181264; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 181264
    Bt2—61 to 91 centimeters (24.0 to 35.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior sandy clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, noncoherent, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; semideformable; 0.5 fine and medium roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and fine moderate-continuity interstitial pores; 10 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent medium and coarse spherical black (N 2/0) iron-manganese masses between peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P00547. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 181265; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 181265
    BC—91 to 137 centimeters (35.8 to 53.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior sandy loam, sandy clay 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 and coarse spherical light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) ironstone nodules; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 95P00548
    C—137 to 152 centimeters (53.9 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) interior sandy loam; massive; friable, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; semideformable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and fine moderate-continuity interstitial pores; 10 percent medium and coarse spherical strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron and 15 percent medium and coarse spherical light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) ironstone nodules; fragments. Lab sample # 95P00549