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Official Series Description - CASCAJO Series <br />Page 2 oft <br />GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS: These are the Otero, I3arve~ ,Stoneham, and the competing Pala soils. <br />Otero soils lack a calcic horizon and are coarse, loamy. Harvey and Stoneham soils are fine, loamy. <br />DRAINAGE AND PERMEABILITY: Excessively drained; rapid permeability; slow runoff. <br />USE AND VEGETATION: Primarily used for grazing, dominantly short and mid grasses. Many areas are used as source <br />of sand and gravel. <br />DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Eastern Colorado and New Mexico. The series is of moderate extent and individual <br />areas are long and narrow, usually bordering major drainageways. <br />MLRA OFFICE RESPONSIBLE: Salina, Kansas <br />SERIES ESTABLISHED: Upper Rio Puerco Recomiaissance Soil Survey, New Mexico, 1940. <br />REMARKS: Cascajo soils have been correlated in Prowers County, Otero County, Bent County, Crowley County, and <br />Pueblo County Area of Colorado, and in all areas aze sandy-skeletal. <br />f~lational Cooperative Soil Survey <br />U.S.A. <br />