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Custom Soil Resource Report <br /> Teller-Park Area, Colorado, Parts of Park and Teller Counties <br /> 7—Bassel very gravelly sandy loam, 15 to 55 percent slopes <br /> Map Unit Setting <br /> National map unit symbol: k11z <br /> Elevation: 9,300 to 9,800 feet <br /> Mean annual precipitation: 14 to 16 inches <br /> Mean annual air temperature: 35 to 39 degrees F <br /> Frost-free period: 50 to 80 days <br /> Farmland classification: Not prime farmland <br /> Map Unit Composition <br /> Bassel and similar soils: 85 percent <br /> Estimates are based on observations, descriptions, and transects of the mapunit. <br /> Description of Bassel <br /> Setting <br /> Landform: Hills, mountains <br /> Landform position(three-dimensional): Mountainflank, side slope <br /> Down-slope shape: Linear <br /> Across-slope shape: Linear <br /> Parent material. Slope alluvium derived from sandstone and/or conglomerate <br /> Typical profile <br /> A-0 to 4 inches: very gravelly sandy loam <br /> Bt1 -4 to 9 inches: very gravelly sandy clay loam <br /> Bt2-9 to 14 inches: very gravelly sandy clay loam <br /> Bt3- 14 to 22 inches: very gravelly sandy clay loam <br /> Bk1-22 to 36 inches: very gravelly sandy loam <br /> Bk2-36 to 44 inches: extremely gravelly loamy coarse sand <br /> Cr-44 to 54 inches: bedrock <br /> Properties and qualities <br /> Slope: 15 to 55 percent <br /> Depth to restrictive feature: 40 to 60 inches to paralithic bedrock <br /> Natural drainage class: Well drained <br /> Capacity of the most limiting layer to transmit water(Ksat): Moderately low(0.03 to <br /> 0.09 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: 3 percent <br /> Available water storage in profile: Very low(about 1.1 inches) <br /> Interpretive groups <br /> Land capability classification(irrigated): None specified <br /> Land capability classification(nonirrigated): 7e <br /> Hydrologic Soil Group: B <br /> Ecological site: Skeletal Loam (R048AY377CO) <br /> Hydric soil rating: No <br /> 13 <br />