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Custom Soil Resource Report <br />X61—Moento-Beje-Rock outcrop complex, 5 to 35 percent slopes <br />Map Unit Setting <br />National map unit symbol: k2f2 <br />Elevation: 7,000 to 8,100 feet <br />Mean annual precipitation: 16 to 24 inches <br />Mean annual air temperature: 43 to 45 degrees F <br />Frost -free period: 80 to 115 days <br />Farmland classification: Not prime farmland <br />Map Unit Composition <br />Moento and similar soils: 45 percent <br />Beje and similar soils: 35 percent <br />Rock outcrop: 15 percent <br />Minor components: 5 percent <br />Estimates are based on observations, descriptions, and transects of the mapunit. <br />Description of Moento <br />Setting <br />Landform: Structural benches, hills on cuestas <br />Parent material. Fine -loamy slope alluvium derived from sandstone and shale <br />Typical profile <br />Oe - 0 to 1 inches: moderately decomposed plant material <br />A - 1 to 8 inches: loam <br />Bt1 - 8 to 11 inches: clay loam <br />Bt2 - 11 to 23 inches: clay loam <br />Bt3 - 23 to 27 inches: clay loam <br />Cr- 27 to 30 inches: weathered bedrock <br />R - 30 to 33 inches: unweathered bedrock <br />Properties and qualities <br />Slope: 5 to 35 percent <br />Depth to restrictive feature: 21 to 31 inches to paralithic bedrock; 22 to 32 inches to <br />lithic bedrock <br />Natural drainage class: Well drained <br />Runoff class: High <br />Capacity of the most limiting layer to transmit water (Ksat): Very low to moderately <br />high (0.00 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 1.0 mmhos/cm) <br />Available water storage in profile: Low (about 4.6 inches) <br />20 <br />