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• GEOGRAPHIC SETTING: Bond soils are on cuestas, mesas, hills, and ridges with slopes ranging from 0 to 50 <br />percent. They formed in alluvial and eolian deposits from sandstone. Elevations are 5,600 to 7,000 feet. Typically, <br />the average annual precipitation is 10 to 13 inches, but ranges to 15 inches in some areas; mean annual <br />temperature is 49 to 54 degrees F. The frost-free period is 110 to 160 days. In Colorado, the temperature ranges <br />as low as 43 degrees F. In Arizona elevations areas low as 4500 feet, temperatures as high 55 degrees and frost <br />free as long as 165 days. <br />GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS: These are the Aparejo, Hagerman, Penistaja and Skyvillage soils. <br />Aparejo and Penistaja soils are deep. Hagerman soils have lithiccontact between 20 and 40 inches. Skyvillage soils <br />do not have argillic horizons. <br />DRAINAGE AND PERMEABILITY: Well drained; medium runoff; moderately permeable. <br />USE AND VEGETATION: The major use of this soil is for livestock grating. The present vegetation is blue grams, <br />sideoats grams, New Mexico feathergrass, Indian ricegrass, scattered oneseed juniper, and winterfat. <br />DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: W est-central New Mexico, Northern Arizona, southwestern Colorado and southern <br />Utah. MLRA 36. The series is moderately extensive. <br />• MLRA OFFICE RESPONSIBLE: Phoenix, Arizona <br />SERIES ESTABLISHED: MclGnley County, New Mexico; Zuni Mountains Area, New Mexico, 1964. <br />REMARKS: Diagnostic horizons and features recognized in this pedon are: <br />Ochric Horizon -The zone from 0 to 3 inches (A horizon). <br />Argil{ic Horizon -The zone from about 7 to 13 inches (Bt horizon). <br />Lithic contact -the boundary with sandstone at 16 inches <br />The type location of the Bond series was moved from McKinley to Cibola County in 1984 to better reflect the present <br />concepts of the Bond series. <br />National Cooperative Soil Survey <br />U.S.A. <br />LJ <br />(Revised March 2006) Attachment 2.04.9-3-11 <br />