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Louviers aeries <br />• Depth class: Shallow <br />Drainage class: Well drained <br />Parent material: Colluvium, <br />residuum <br />Landform: Foothills <br />Landscape position: Backslopes <br />Slope: 3 to 65 percent <br />Average annual precipitation: 14 <br />to 18 inches <br />Average annual air temperature: <br />45 to 52 degrees F <br />Taxonomic class: Clayey, mixed, <br />nonacid, mesic, shallow Ustic <br />Torriorthents <br />Typical Pedon <br />Typical pedon of a Louviers very <br />channery clay loam in an area of <br />Louviers-Rombo-Travessilla <br />complex, 30 to 65 percent <br />slopes, about 900 feet south and <br />1,700 feet east of the northwest <br />corner of sec. 3, T. 31 S., R. <br />65 W. <br />• A=0 to 2 inches; grayish brown <br />(2.5Y 5/2) channery clay loam, <br />dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) <br />moist; moderate very fine <br />granular structure; hard, firm, <br />sticky and slightly plastic; 30 <br />percent channery fragments; <br />neutral; clear smooth boundary. <br />AC=2 to 16 inches; grayish brown <br />(2.5Y 5/2) silty clay loam, dark <br />grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) moist; <br />weak coarse subangular blocky <br />structure that parts to moderate <br />fine subangular blocks; hard, <br />firm, sticky and plastic; 20 <br />percent shale fragments; <br />neutral; gradual smooth <br />boundary. <br />Cr=16 to 60 inches; Fractured <br />blocky interbedded shale and <br />siltstone. <br /> <br />Range in Characteristics <br />Depth to bedrock: l0 to 20 <br />inches <br />Content of coarse fragments in <br />the control section: 0 to 35 <br />percent rock fragments <br />A horizon: <br />Texture=stony loam, very <br />channery loam, or very channery <br />clay loam Reaction:neutral or <br />mildly alkaline <br />C horizon: <br />Texture=clay loam or silty clay <br />loam <br />Clay content: 35 to 50 percent <br />Reaction: neutral or mildly <br />alkaline <br />Content of coarse fragments in <br />the control section: 0 to 30 <br />percent shale fragments <br />5-1-19 <br />