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• ,. <br />I ~' . l <br />I <br />' RLE-Shale roc;cland <br />' This unit cor.aists of ex, asures ors shale, tcoethet• with areas with <br />a thin cantle, up to four inch e_: tt,ic:;, of so: '_ :.ater_al. It is <br />1 steep to extremely steep and occunict. areas abova r.,t.renct.ed drai^-sus. <br />Because o_` the generally horizontal bed~_ing e` tl~e :::~aie, this snit. <br />occurs in bodies of more horizontal than vertical zxtent. fifteen <br />percent cf the unit consists of included ~`.~a11ow a::d very shallow soil <br />which is channery, moderately fire or fine text.irzd, aad generally <br />1 calcareous. Bands of Redbeds sandstone are included ir, some areas. <br />Those areas have small inclusions of Ar,sari soil. <br />Runoff is rapid and erosion hazard on this unit is higher thad cn <br />the Torriorthents-Rock outcrop unit. ':hat is th? principal reason <br />1 for delineating these areas se?arately. <br />I This unit is used to a limited extent by wiluli:a and has some value <br />as watershed. Areas whex•e the shale i~ t:ancos are less suitzd for <br />watershed because of the salts. <br />I The native vegetation includes wheatgrasse_, Indian ricegrass, bitter- <br />brush, mountainmahogany, and somewhat dispersed pinyon-pine and Utah <br />l juniper. <br />1 <br />I <br />1 <br />1 . <br />