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• CMLRB - 1?xhibit I Soil Information Page 2 Other Soils of the Permit Area Soil units within the permit area that are not to be disturbed or which will experience only very minor disturbance include Ascalon sandy loam, Ascalon-Otero complex, Baller stony sandy loam, Calkins sandy loam, Loveland soils, Nunn sandy clay loam, Nunn clay loam, Valmont clay loam, and Valmont cobbly clay foam. Ascalon soils aze fine loamy, mixed, mesic Aridic Argiustolls, deep and well-drained, formed on terraces and uplands in loamy mixed alluvium and wind-laid materials. A sandy loam surface horizon of about 8 inches is underlain by a textural B-horizon of about 11 inches; below this, a calcareous subsoil extends to a depth of 60 inches or more. Baller soils aze loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Lithic Haplustolls, shallow and well-drained, formed on upland ridges and slopes in loamy residuum weathered from sandstone. Typically, the surface layer is a grayish brown stony sandy loam about 10 inches thick. Below this, 5 • inches of light brownish gray very stony sandy loam overlies the sandstone parent material. Calkins soils are coarse loamy, mixed, mesic Cumulic Haplaquolls, deep and somewhat poorly drained, formed from loamy alluvium on low terraces and bottomlands. Typically, the surface layer is a grayish brown sandy loam extending to a depth of 40 inches. Below, alight-brownish gray coazse sandy loam extends to 60 inches or more. Loveland soils are fine loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed (calcareous), mesic Typic Haplaquolls, deep and somewhat poorly drained, formed on loamy alluvium overlying sandy and gravelly material on terraces and bottomlands. Typically, the surface layer is a calcareous dazk grayish brown light clay loam about 20 inches thick, mottled in the lower pazts. Below this a layer of gypsic and strongly calcareous mottled light clay loam about 10 inches thick overlies mottled light brownish-gray gravelly sand extending to a depth of 60 inches or more. Nunn soils aze fine montmorillonitic, mesic Aridic Argiustolls, deep and welt-drained, formed on terraces and valley side slopes in loamy alluvium. Typically the surface layer is a grayish brown clay loam about 10 inches thick. The subsoil is a brown and very pale brown clay, grading to clay loam, about 10 inches thick. Below this, the substratum is a calcareous very . pale brown clay extending to 60 inches or more.