IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hard Labor
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2020NC071001
  • User Pedon ID: S2020NC071001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 20N0486
  • User Project ID: 20_21lau
  • Project Name: MLRA 136 - 3-LAU Appling soils water table study baseline DSP study
  • Print Date: 12/5/2025

    • 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: 35.1633917
  • Std. Longitude: -81.1458389
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Gaston County NC Well Site Well Depth: 46" String Length: 64 3/4" grays come in 26-28"
  • Map Unit: ApB—Appling sandy loam, 1 to 6 percent slopes
  • State: North Carolina
  • County: NC071—Gaston
  • MLRA: 136—Southern Piedmont
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-LAU—Laurens, South Carolina
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC071—Gaston County, North Carolina

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: MLB/DT
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, kaolinitic, thermic Oxyaquic Kanhapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, brief description
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hard Labor
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, kaolinitic, thermic Oxyaquic Kanhapludults
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 28 to 78 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/2/2018
  • Classifier - MLB/DT
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified


    • SITE

  • Landscape: piedmont
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/2/2018 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: MLB/DT
  • 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    kandic horizon

    0—28

    28—152

    28—152

    —28—

    —124—

    —124—
    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

    3

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    —

    220

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) sandy loam; fragments. Lab sample # 20N02362; observed in auger, bucket
    E—10 to 28 centimeters (3.9 to 11.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) sandy clay loam; fragments. Lab sample # 20N02363; observed in auger, bucket
    Bt1—28 to 51 centimeters (11.0 to 20.1 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) clay; 12 percent medium prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments. Lab sample # 20N02364; observed in auger, bucket
    Bt2—51 to 66 centimeters (20.1 to 26.0 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) clay; 25 percent coarse prominent red (2.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments. Lab sample # 20N02365; observed in auger, bucket
    Bt3—66 to 127 centimeters (26.0 to 50.0 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) clay; 12 percent medium prominent very pale brown (10YR 7/3), moist, masses of reduced iron and 25 percent coarse prominent red (2.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 25 percent coarse prominent light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments. Lab sample # 20N02366; observed in auger, bucket
    BCt—127 to 152 centimeters (50.0 to 59.8 inches); red (2.5YR 5/8) clay loam; 12 percent medium prominent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments. Lab sample # 20N02367; observed in auger, bucket