IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Zell
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1976MN0232305
  • User Pedon ID: S1976MN0232305
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL2
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN2305
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 82819
  • 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: 45.0659103
  • Std. Longitude: -95.9239731
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 119N
  • Range: 42W
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: 200 feet north and 1300 feet east of southwest corner of SE1/4
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN023—Chippewa
  • MLRA: 103—Central Iowa and Minnesota Till Prairies
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-ALB—Albert Lea, Minnesota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN023—Chippewa County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 45095-A8—Milan, Minnesota
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, frigid Typic Udorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: U of MN lab data only
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Zell
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/31/1979
  • Classifier - R. I. Turner
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Torning
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/8/1976
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: glaciolacustrine deposits
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: rise
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/8/1976 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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

    5

    270

    800

    155

    6

    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very fine sandy loam; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH meter. Lab sample # MN230501
    Bk—20 to 64 centimeters (7.9 to 25.2 inches); silt loam; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.3, pH meter. Lab sample # MN230502
    C1—64 to 94 centimeters (25.2 to 37.0 inches); very fine sandy loam; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.3, pH meter. Lab sample # MN230503
    C2—94 to 152 centimeters (37.0 to 59.8 inches); loam; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.3, pH meter. Lab sample # MN230504