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Custom Soil Resource Report <br />Description of Aridic Haplustepts <br />Setting <br />Landform: Escarpments on cuestas, escarpments on mesas <br />Parent material: Loamy colluvium derived from sandstone and shale over loamy <br />residuum weathered from sandstone and shale <br />Typical profile <br />A - 0 to 5 inches: gravelly fine sandy loam <br />Bw - 5 to 16 inches: very gravelly sandy clay loam <br />BCk1- 16 to 31 inches: very gravelly sandy clay loam <br />BCk2 - 31 to 44 inches: very cobbly sandy clay loam <br />BCk3 - 44 to 63 inches: extremely stony sandy clay loam <br />Properties and qualities <br />Slope: 25 to 90 percent <br />Percent of area covered with surface fragments: 25.0 percent <br />Depth to restrictive feature: More than 80 inches <br />Natural drainage class: Well drained <br />Runoff class: High <br />Capacity of the most limiting layer to transmit water (Ksat): Moderately high to high <br />(0.57 to 5.95 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: 14 percent <br />Gypsum, maximum in profile: 1 percent <br />Salinity, maximum in profile: Nonsaline to moderately saline (1.0 to 8.0 mmhos/cm) <br />Sodium adsorption ratio, maximum in profile: 2.0 <br />Available water storage in profile: Low (about 4.6 inches) <br />Interpretive groups <br />Land capability classification (irrigated): 8e <br />Land capability classification (nonirrigated): 8e <br />Hydrologic Soil Group: B <br />Description of Ustic Torriorthents <br />Setting <br />Landform: Escarpments on mesas, escarpments on cuestas <br />Parent material: Loamy colluvium derived from sandstone and shale over loamy <br />residuum weathered from sandstone and shale <br />Typical profile <br />A - 0 to 4 inches: very channery fine sandy loam <br />C - 4 to 24 inches: very channery sandy loam <br />R - 24 to 26 inches: unweathered bedrock <br />Properties and qualities <br />Slope: 25 to 90 percent <br />Percent of area covered with surface fragments: 30.0 percent <br />Depth to restrictive feature: 4 to 40 inches to lithic bedrock <br />Natural drainage class: Excessively drained <br />Runoff class: High <br />Capacity of the most limiting layer to transmit water (Ksat): Very low to high (0.00 <br />to 1.98 in/hr) <br />Depth to water table: More than 80 inches <br />18 <br />