IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Zell
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1993SD115036
  • User Pedon ID: 93SD115036
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 94P0215
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 66399
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 45.1894455
  • Std. Longitude: -98.3302765
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 120N
  • Range: 62W
  • Section: 19
  • PLSS Details: 180 feet west and 1580 feet north of the southeast corner
  • State: South Dakota
  • County: SD115—Spink
  • MLRA: 55B—Central Black Glaciated Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: SD115—Spink County, South Dakota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 45098-B3—Brentford, South Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jim Millar, Steve Winter
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, frigid Udic Calciborolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 36
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Zell
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Zell
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed Udorthentic Haploboroll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/1993
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plains
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/1/1993 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 11
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • 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

    3

    91

    30.5

    397

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; very fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P01349
    Bk1—20 to 43 centimeters (7.9 to 16.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), dry; very fine sandy loam; weak fine prismatic, and weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 3 percent fine irregular carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P01350
    Bk2—43 to 81 centimeters (16.9 to 31.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3), dry; very fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 3 percent fine irregular carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P01351
    C1—81 to 142 centimeters (31.9 to 55.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3), dry; very fine sandy loam; weak very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P01352
    C2—142 to 203 centimeters (55.9 to 79.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3), dry; loamy fine sand; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 94P01353