IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hard Labor
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2020SC059003
  • User Pedon ID: S2020SC059003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 20N0479
  • 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: 34.3684090
  • Std. Longitude: -81.9869900
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Mark Simmons Laurens County Well Site
  • Map Unit: ApB—Appling loamy sand, 2 to 6 percent slopes
  • State: South Carolina
  • County: SC059—Laurens
  • MLRA: 136—Southern Piedmont
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-LAU—Laurens, South Carolina
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: SC059—Laurens 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 - 23 to 73 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/17/2017
  • Classifier - MLB/DT
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/17/2017 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: MLB/DT
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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—23

    23—152

    23—152

    —23—

    —139—

    —139—
    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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    202

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) sandy loam; fragments. Lab sample # 20N02320; observed in auger, bucket
    E—8 to 23 centimeters (3.1 to 9.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) sandy loam; fragments. Lab sample # 20N02321; observed in auger, bucket
    Bt1—23 to 53 centimeters (9.1 to 20.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) clay; 1 percent fine prominent light red (5R 6/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments. Lab sample # 20N02322; observed in auger, bucket
    Bt2—53 to 76 centimeters (20.9 to 29.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay; 12 percent fine prominent very pale brown (10YR 7/3), moist, masses of reduced iron and 25 percent coarse prominent red (2.5YR 4/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments. Lab sample # 20N02323; observed in auger, bucket
    Bt3—76 to 99 centimeters (29.9 to 39.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8) clay; 12 percent medium prominent light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, masses of reduced iron and 25 percent coarse prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments. Lab sample # 20N02324; observed in auger, bucket
    Bt4—99 to 152 centimeters (39.0 to 59.8 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8) clay; 12 percent medium prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 12 percent medium prominent light gray (10YR 7/1), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments. Lab sample # 20N02325; observed in auger, bucket