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Map Unit Description:Midway-Cascajo complex,10 to 40 percent slopes--Fremont County Area, JJ Stone Pit#1 Amendment <br /> Colorado <br /> Fremont County Area, Colorado <br /> 72—Midway-Cascajo complex, 10 to 40 percent slopes <br /> Map Unit Setting <br /> National map unit symbol: jqkj <br /> Elevation: 5,300 to 6,500 feet <br /> Mean annual precipitation: 12 to 15 inches <br /> Mean annual air temperature: 50 to 53 degrees F <br /> Frost-free period: 150 to 165 days <br /> Farmland classification: Not prime farmland <br /> Map Unit Composition <br /> Midway and similar soils: 60 percent <br /> Cascajo and similar soils: 20 percent <br /> Estimates are based on observations, descriptions, and transects of the <br /> mapunit. <br /> Description of Midway <br /> Setting <br /> Landfonn: Fan terraces, knobs, hills <br /> Landform position(three-dimensional): Side slope, crest <br /> Down-slope shape: Linear <br /> Across-slope shape: Linear <br /> Parentmaterial: Slope alluvium over residuum weathered from shale <br /> Typical profile <br /> A-0 to 3 inches: very gravelly clay loam <br /> C-3 to 15 inches: clay <br /> Cr- 15 to 19 inches: weathered bedrock <br /> Properties and qualities <br /> Slope: 15 to 40 percent <br /> Depth to restrictive feature: 6 to 20 inches to paralithic bedrock <br /> Natural drainage class: Well drained <br /> Runoff class: Very high <br /> Capacity of the most limiting layer to transmit water(Ksat): <br /> Moderately low to 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: 15 percent <br /> Gypsum, maximum in profile: 5 percent <br /> Salinity, maximum in profile: Nonsaline to very slightly saline(0.0 to <br /> 2.0 mmhos/cm) <br /> Sodium adsorption ratio, maximum in profile: 10.0 <br /> Available water storage in profile: Very low(about 2.1 inches) <br /> Interpretive groups <br /> Land capability classification(irrigated): None specked <br /> Land capability classification(nonirrigated): 7e <br /> usDA Natural Resources Web Soil Survey 8/9/2016 <br /> Conservation Service National Cooperative Soil Survey Page 1 of 2 <br />