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Custom Soil Resource Report <br /> 22—Eckley-Wages complex, 4 to 20 percent slopes <br /> Map Unit Setting <br /> National map unit symbol: 37r0 <br /> Elevation: 4,300 to 5,200 feet <br /> Mean annual precipitation: 13 to 17 inches <br /> Mean annual air temperature: 45 to 50 degrees F <br /> Frost-free period: 145 to 148 days <br /> Farmland classification: Not prime farmland <br /> Map Unit Composition <br /> Eckley and similar soils: 40 percent <br /> Wages and similar soils: 30 percent <br /> Minor components: 30 percent <br /> Estimates are based on observations, descriptions, and transects of the mapunit. <br /> Description of Eckley <br /> Setting <br /> Landform: Hills <br /> Landform position (two-dimensional): Shoulder <br /> Down-slope shape: Linear <br /> Across-slope shape: Linear <br /> Parent material: Fine-loamy eolian deposits over sandy and gravelly alluvium <br /> Typical profile <br /> A -0 to 4 inches: gravelly sandy loam <br /> Bt- 4 to 12 inches: gravelly sandy clay loam <br /> BC - 12 to 15 inches: gravelly sandy loam <br /> 2C1 - 15 to 22 inches: gravelly sand <br /> 2C2- 22 to 60 inches: gravelly sand <br /> Properties and qualities <br /> Slope: 4 to 20 percent <br /> Depth to restrictive feature: About 15 inches to strongly contrasting textural <br /> stratification <br /> Natural drainage class: Well drained <br /> Runoff class: Medium <br /> Capacity of the most limiting layer to transmit water(Ksat): Moderately high to <br /> high (0.60 to 2.00 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: 5 percent <br /> Available water storage in profile: Very low (about 1.7 inches) <br /> Interpretive groups <br /> Land capability classification (irrigated): 6e <br /> Land capability classification (nonirrigated): 6e <br /> Hydrologic Soil Group: B <br /> 16 <br />