IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hard Labor
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2020NC179001
  • User Pedon ID: S2020NC179001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 20N0485
  • 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: 35.0567740
  • Std. Longitude: -80.7259120
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Union County NC LevelLogger Well Site. Type Location for Appling Soil Series Well Depth: 60" String Length: 83 3/4"
  • Map Unit: ApB—Appling sandy loam, 2 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: North Carolina
  • County: NC179—Union
  • MLRA: 136—Southern Piedmont
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-LAU—Laurens, South Carolina
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC179—Union 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 - 46 to 96 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/25/2018
  • 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: 4/25/2018 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: MLB/DT
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - conifers
  • 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—25

    25—152

    25—152

    —25—

    —127—

    —127—
    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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    108

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    A—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) coarse sandy loam; fragments. Lab sample # 20N02356; observed in auger, bucket
    E—25 to 33 centimeters (9.8 to 13.0 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) coarse sandy loam; fragments. Lab sample # 20N02357; observed in auger, bucket
    BE—33 to 46 centimeters (13.0 to 18.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) sandy clay loam; fragments. Lab sample # 20N02358; observed in auger, bucket
    Bt1—46 to 97 centimeters (18.1 to 38.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) clay; 12 percent medium prominent yellow (10YR 7/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 25 percent coarse prominent red (2.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments. Lab sample # 20N02359; observed in auger, bucket
    Bt2—97 to 117 centimeters (38.2 to 46.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) clay loam; 12 percent medium prominent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, masses of reduced iron and 12 percent medium prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 25 percent coarse prominent red (2.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments. Lab sample # 20N02360; observed in auger, bucket
    BCt—117 to 173 centimeters (46.1 to 68.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) clay loam; 12 percent medium prominent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, masses of reduced iron and 12 percent medium prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 25 percent coarse prominent red (2.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments. Lab sample # 20N02361; observed in auger, bucket