IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Zell
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1993SD115034
  • User Pedon ID: 93SD115034
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 94P0004
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 66194
  • Print Date: 4/26/2025

    • 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: 44.9661102
  • Std. Longitude: -98.3255539
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 117N
  • Range: 62W
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: 1500 feet east and 2100 feet north of SW corner
  • State: South Dakota
  • County: SD115—Spink
  • MLRA: 55B—Central Black Glaciated Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: SD115—Spink County, South Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jim Millar and Steve Winter
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive Udic Calciborolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 34
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Zell
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Zell
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed Udorthentic Haploboroll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/15/1993
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: lacustrine deposits derived from mixed
  • Landform: Great Bend lake plain
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/15/1993 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 46
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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

    8

    107

    46

    390

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; weak fine and medium granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P00022
    Bk1—18 to 23 centimeters (7.1 to 9.1 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), dry; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 30 percent fine irregular weakly coherent cemented carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P00023
    Bk2—23 to 69 centimeters (9.1 to 27.2 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), dry; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 30 percent fine irregular weakly coherent cemented carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P00024
    C1—69 to 145 centimeters (27.2 to 57.1 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3), dry; 3 percent light gray (10YR 7/1) fine and medium prominent mottles; massive; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 10 percent ferriargillans; fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P00025
    C2—145 to 203 centimeters (57.1 to 79.9 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), dry; 3 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) fine and medium prominent and 3 percent light gray (10YR 7/1) fine and medium prominent mottles; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 10 percent ferriargillans; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 94P00026