IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Zell
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990MN073012 (4434)
  • User Pedon ID: S1990MN073012 (4434)
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN4434
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48940
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 45.1845627
  • Std. Longitude: -96.1866531
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 120N
  • Range: 44W
  • Section: 20
  • PLSS Details: 800 feet north and 75 feet west of the southeast corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN073—Lac qui Parle
  • MLRA: 102A—Rolling Till Prairie
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-FER—Fergus Falls, Minnesota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN073—Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 45096-B2—Correll, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Peter C. Weikle
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, frigid Typic Calciudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Zell
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/2/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Zell
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1990
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: glaciolacustrine deposits
  • Landscape: lake plain
  • Landform: rise
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Geology: Wisconsinan formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1990 (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

    3

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    0

    645

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    145

    6

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN443401; moist when described;
    Bk1—23 to 33 centimeters (9.1 to 13.0 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.1 fine roots; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN443402; moist when described;
    Bk2—33 to 53 centimeters (13.0 to 20.9 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.1 fine roots; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN443402; moist when described;
    C—53 to 152 centimeters (20.9 to 59.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) very fine sandy loam; very friable; 10 percent gray (10YR 5/1), moist, masses of reduced iron and 11 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0. Lab sample # MN443403; dry when described;