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• Travesailla aeries <br />Depth class: Shallow <br />Drainage class: Well drained <br />Parent material: Residuum <br />Landform: Canyons, ridges <br />Landscape position: Backslopes, <br />ridgetops <br />Slope: 3 to 50 percent <br />Average annual precipitation: 11 <br />to 18 inches <br />Average annual air temperature: <br />47 to 54 degrees F <br />Taxonomic class: Loamy, mixed <br />(calcareous), mesic Lithic Ustic <br />Torriorthents <br />Typical Pedon <br />Typical pedon of a Travesailla <br />sandy loam in an area of <br />Travesailla-Rock outcrop <br />complex, 3 to 25 percent slopes, <br />about 600 feet south and 1650 <br />feet west of the southwest <br />corner of sec. 29, T. 30 S., R. <br />58 W. <br />• A=0 to 5 inches; brown (lOYR <br />5/3) sandy loam, dark brown <br />(lOYR 4/3) moist; weak fine <br />granular structure; soft, very <br />friable, nonsticky and <br />nonplastic; slightly <br />effervescent; moderately <br />alkaline; clear smooth boundary. <br />AC=S to 11 inches; yellowish <br />brown (lOYR 5/4) sandy loam, <br />brown (lOYR 4/3) moist; weak <br />coarse subangular blocky <br />structure; slightly hard, very <br />friable, nonsticky and <br />nonplastic; strongly <br />effervescent; moderately <br />alkaline; clear smooth boundary. <br />Ck=11 to 14 inches; very pale <br />brown (lOYR 7/3) sandy loam, <br />yellowish brown (lOYR 5/4) <br />moist; massive; slightly hard, <br />very friable, nonsticky and <br />. nonplastic; common faint soft <br />masses of lime; violently <br />effervescent; moderately <br />alkaline; abrupt smooth <br />boundary. <br />R=14 to 60 inches; hard <br />sandstone. <br />Range in Characteristics <br />Depth to bedrock: 6 to 20 inches <br />Content of coarse fragments in <br />the control section: 0 to 35 <br />percent <br />Texture=loam, sandy loam <br />Clay content: 5 to 18 percent <br />Reaction: mildly alkaline or <br />moderately alkaline <br />5-1-25 <br />