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2 -Absarokee -Work loams <br />2 -Absarokee -Work loams, 6 to 25 percent slopes <br />• SETTING <br />Landforms: uplands, valley slopes <br />Elevation: 6,800 to 8,500 feet <br />Mean annual air temperature: 44 degrees F <br />Mean annual precipitation: 17 inches <br />Frost-free period: 90 days <br />CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ABSAROKEE SOIL <br />Parent material: sandstone <br />Dominant native plants: Gambel oak, serviceberry, big sagebrush, wheatgrasses, bromes <br />Typical Profile <br />0 to 7 inches -dark grayish brown loam <br />7 to 13 inches -grayish brown clay loam <br />13 to 17 inches -brown clay <br />17 to 25 inches -brown clay <br />25 to 30 inches -light brown channery clay loam <br />30 inches -fractured calcareous sandstone bedrock <br />• Depth class: moderately deep <br />Drainage class: well drained <br />Permeability: moderately slow <br />Available water capacity: low <br />Potential rooting depth: 20 to 40 inches <br />Surface runoff: moderate <br />Hazard of water erosion: moderate <br />Shrink-swell potential: high <br />Mass movement potential: moderate to high <br />CHARACTERISTICS OF THE WORK SOIL <br />Parent material: sandstone, eolian materials. <br />Dominant native plants: wheatgrasses, bluegrasses, bromes, big sagebrush, Gambel oak, <br />serviceberry. <br />Typical Profile <br />0 to 6 inches -dark brown loam <br />6 to 13 inches -dark brown clay loam <br />13 to 28 inches -brown clay <br />28 to 34 inches -brown clay <br />34 to 39 inches -light brown clay loam <br />39 to 60 inches -very pale brown channery loam <br />• Depth class: deep <br />Drainage class: well drained <br />Soils Description Report -West Elk Mine <br />December 7994 WESTEC 1 <br />