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Soil structure: Fine roots on Hard Labor prism face

The Hard Labor series consists of very deep, moderately well drained, slowly permeable soils that formed in material weathered from felsic igneous and metamorphic rock, primarily granite and granite gneiss. The Hard Labor soils are on summits and side slopes of the Piedmont uplands. There is a perched water table in late winter and early spring. Slope ranges from 0 to 15 percent. TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine, kaolinitic, thermic Oxyaquic Kanhapludults

 

For more information about hard labor soils, visit:

casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/sde/?series=hard%20labor#osd

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Uploaded on December 27, 2010
Taken in October 2008