IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hard Labor
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2020SC063001
  • User Pedon ID: S2020SC063001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 20N0482
  • User Project ID: 22lau
  • Project Name: MLRA 136 - 3-LAU Appling sandy loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes - Amoozemeter Ksat Data Collection
  • 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: 33.9398111
  • Std. Longitude: -81.5355417
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Lexington County Well Site Location Well Depth: 65"
  • Map Unit: ApB—Appling sandy loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes
  • State: South Carolina
  • County: SC063—Lexington
  • MLRA: 136—Southern Piedmont
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-LAU—Laurens, South Carolina
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: SC063—Lexington 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 - 33 to 83 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/10/2018
  • 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: interfluve
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/10/2018 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: DT/MLB
  • 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—23

    23—165

    23—165

    —23—

    —142—

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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

    2

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    175

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) sandy loam; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0. Lab sample # 20N02337; observed in auger, bucket
    E—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) sandy loam; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0. Lab sample # 20N02338; observed in auger, bucket
    BE—23 to 33 centimeters (9.1 to 13.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4) sandy clay loam; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8. Lab sample # 20N02339; observed in auger, bucket
    Bt1—33 to 94 centimeters (13.0 to 37.0 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) clay; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 12 percent medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6. Lab sample # 20N02340; observed in auger, bucket
    Bt2—94 to 114 centimeters (37.0 to 44.9 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) clay; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 12 percent medium prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 25 percent medium prominent light gray (10YR 7/1), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6. Lab sample # 20N02341; observed in auger, bucket
    Bt3—114 to 165 centimeters (44.9 to 65.0 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) clay; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 25 percent coarse prominent light gray (10YR 7/1), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5. Lab sample # 20N02342; observed in auger, bucket