IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hard Labor
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2020GA147001
  • User Pedon ID: S2020GA147001
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - 2017GA147T003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 20N0483
  • User Project ID: 20_21lau
  • Project Name: MLRA 136 - 3-LAU Appling soils water table study baseline DSP study
  • Print Date: 4/22/2026

    • 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: 34.2874600
  • Std. Longitude: -82.8562500
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Hart County GA well Site Well: 46" Deep String Length ~62 3/4" Infiltration Slits start 3" below the surface
  • Map Unit: AmB—Appling sandy loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes
  • State: Georgia
  • County: GA147—Hart
  • MLRA: 136—Southern Piedmont
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-LAU—Laurens, South Carolina
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: GA147—Hart County, Georgia

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: 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 - 38 to 88 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/14/2017
  • Classifier - DT
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/14/2017 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: 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—5

    5—152

    5—152

    —5—

    —147—

    —147—
    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

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    224

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) sandy loam; nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments. Lab sample # 20N02343; observed in auger, bucket
    BE—5 to 38 centimeters (2.0 to 15.0 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) sandy clay loam; slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments. Lab sample # 20N02344; observed in auger, bucket
    Bt1—38 to 66 centimeters (15.0 to 26.0 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) clay; moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments. Lab sample # 20N02345; observed in auger, bucket
    Bt2—66 to 89 centimeters (26.0 to 35.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) clay; moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 12 percent medium prominent red (2.5YR 4/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 12 percent medium prominent very pale brown (10YR 7/3), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments. Lab sample # 20N02346; observed in auger, bucket
    Bt3—89 to 127 centimeters (35.0 to 50.0 inches); red (2.5YR 5/8) clay; moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 12 percent medium prominent light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, masses of reduced iron and 12 percent medium prominent very pale brown (10YR 7/3), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments. Lab sample # 20N02347; observed in auger, bucket
    Bt4—127 to 152 centimeters (50.0 to 59.8 inches); red (2.5YR 5/8) clay; moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1 percent fine prominent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments. Lab sample # 20N02348; observed in auger, bucket