IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hard Labor
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2020SC001001
  • User Pedon ID: S2020SC001001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 20N0481
  • 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: 34.3789556
  • Std. Longitude: -82.3747611
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Abbeville LevelLogger well site Land Owner: Aaron Semenach Well Depth: 44" String Length: 69" Slit is 4 3/4" from bottom
  • Map Unit: ApB—Appling sandy loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes
  • State: South Carolina
  • County: SC001—Abbeville
  • MLRA: 136—Southern Piedmont
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-LAU—Laurens, South Carolina
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: SC001—Abbeville County, South 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 - 41 to 91 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/19/2018
  • 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: 3/29/2018 (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

    kandic horizon

    argillic horizon

    0—8

    8—160

    8—160

    —8—

    —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

    3

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    244

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    A—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) sandy loam; fragments. Lab sample # 20N02332; observed in auger, bucket
    BE—18 to 41 centimeters (7.1 to 16.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) sandy loam; fragments. Lab sample # 20N02333; observed in auger, bucket
    Bt1—41 to 61 centimeters (16.1 to 24.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) clay; 12 percent medium distinct red (2.5YR 4/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 12 percent medium prominent yellow (10YR 7/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments. Lab sample # 20N02334; observed in auger, bucket
    Bt2—61 to 97 centimeters (24.0 to 38.2 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8) clay; 12 percent medium prominent white (10YR 8/1), moist, masses of reduced iron and 25 percent coarse prominent red (2.5YR 4/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments. Lab sample # 20N02335; observed in auger, bucket
    Bt3—97 to 152 centimeters (38.2 to 59.8 inches); red (2.5YR 5/8) clay; 12 percent medium prominent white (10YR 8/1), moist, masses of reduced iron and 12 percent medium prominent pale yellow (2.5Y 8/3), moist, masses of reduced iron and 25 percent coarse prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments. Lab sample # 20N02336; observed in auger, bucket