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Custom Soil Resource Report <br /> 35—Platner loam <br /> Map Unit Setting <br /> Elevation: 3,500 to 4,200 feet <br /> Mean annual precipitation: 17 to 19 inches <br /> Mean annual air temperature: 46 to 52 degrees F <br /> Frost-free period: 140 to 165 days <br /> Map Unit Composition <br /> Platner and similar soils: 80 percent <br /> Minor components: 20 percent <br /> Description of Platner <br /> Setting <br /> Landform: Plains <br /> Down-slope shape: Linear <br /> Across-slope shape: Linear <br /> Parent material: Loess over old alluvium <br /> Typical profile <br /> H1 - 0 to 6 inches: neutral, loam <br /> H2- 6 to 16 inches: neutral, clay loam <br /> H3- 16 to 36 inches: moderately alkaline, sandy clay loam <br /> H4 - 36 to 50 inches: strongly alkaline, gravelly sandy loam <br /> H5- 50 to 60 inches: strongly alkaline, gravelly sand <br /> Properties and qualities <br /> Slope: 0 to 3 percent <br /> Depth to restrictive feature: More than 80 inches <br /> Natural drainage class: Well drained <br /> Capacity of the most limiting layer to transmit water(Ksat): Moderately low to <br /> moderately high (0.06 to 0.20 in/hr) <br /> Depth to water table: More than 80 inches <br /> Frequency of flooding: None <br /> Frequency of ponding: None <br /> Calcium carbonate, maximum in profile: 10 percent <br /> Salinity, maximum in profile: Nonsaline (0.0 to 2.0 mmhos/cm) <br /> Available water storage in profile: Moderate (about 7.2 inches) <br /> Interpretive groups <br /> Farmland classification: Prime farmland if irrigated <br /> Land capability classification (irrigated): 3e <br /> Land capability classification (nonirrigated): 3e <br /> Hydrologic Soil Group: C <br /> Ecological site: Loamy Plains (R072XY001 CO) <br /> 13 <br />