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Custom Soil Resource Report <br /> Minor Components <br /> Other soils <br /> Percent of map unit: <br /> Pleasant <br /> Percent of map unit. <br /> Landform: Depressions <br /> 32—Fortwingate-Rock outcrop complex, 15 to 60 percent slopes <br /> Map Unit Setting <br /> National map unit symbol: 3685 <br /> Elevation: 6,600 to 7,200 feet <br /> Mean annual precipitation: 16 to 18 inches <br /> Mean annual air temperature: 42 to 46 degrees F <br /> Frost-free period: 100 to 120 days <br /> Farmland classification: Not prime farmland <br /> Map Unit Composition <br /> Fortwingate and similar soils: 40 percent <br /> Rock outcrop: 30 percent <br /> Estimates are based on observations, descriptions, and transects of the mapunit. <br /> Description of Fortwingate <br /> Setting <br /> Landform: Mountains <br /> Landform position (three-dimensional): Mountainflank <br /> Down-slope shape: Linear <br /> Across-slope shape: Linear <br /> Parent material: Residuum weathered from sandstone and shale <br /> Typical profile <br /> A - 0 to 6 inches: loam <br /> Bt- 6 to 23 inches: clay <br /> Cr-23 to 38 inches: weathered bedrock <br /> R-38 to 42 inches: unweathered bedrock <br /> Properties and qualities <br /> Slope: 15 to 40 percent <br /> Depth to restrictive feature: 20 to 40 inches to 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 /> Available waterstorage in profile: Low(about 3.5 inches) <br /> 14 <br />