IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Zell
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1996ND081761
  • User Pedon ID: S1996ND081761
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 97P0378
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 10061
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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: 46.1713676
  • Std. Longitude: -97.9026108
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 131N
  • Range: 58W
  • Section: 12
  • PLSS Details: SW 1/4 SW 1/4 corner
  • State: North Dakota
  • County: ND081—Sargent
  • MLRA: 55B—Central Black Glaciated Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ND081—Sargent County, North Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: MU, LE, DJ, MM
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive Udic Calciborolls
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 761
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Zell
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive Udic Calciborolls
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1996
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plains
  • 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: 10/1/1996 (actual site observation date)
  • 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

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) very fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 97P02291. Plow layer is a mixture of A and Bk
    Bk—25 to 43 centimeters (9.8 to 16.9 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) very fine sandy loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak medium platy structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 97P02292
    C1—43 to 97 centimeters (16.9 to 38.2 inches); 80 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) and 20 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) very fine sandy loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 97P02293
    C2—97 to 200 centimeters (38.2 to 78.7 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) very fine sandy loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 97P02294
    C3—200 to 300 centimeters (78.7 to 118.1 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) very fine sandy loam; massive; slightly hard, friable; fragments. Lab sample # 97P02295