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<br />Mapunit Symbol 52 BADLANDS-DEAVER-CHIPETA COMPLEX, 25 TO 99 <br />PERCENT SLOPES, EXTREMELY STONY <br />Component Name BADLANDS Comp % - 35 <br />BADLAND IS MODERATELY STEEP TO VERY STEEP BARREN LAND DISSECTED BY MANY <br />INTERMITTENT DRAINAGE CHANNELS. THE AREAS ARE ORDINARILY NOT STONY. BADLAND <br />IS MOST COMMON IN SEMIARID AND ARID REGIONS WHERE STREAMS CUT INTO SOFT <br />GEOLOGIC MATERIAL. LOCAL RELIEF GENERALLY RANGES BETWEEN 300 TO 700 FEET. <br />POTENTIAL RUNOFF IS VERY RAPID AND EROSION IS ACTIVE. SLOPES RANGE FROM 1 TO <br />200 PERCENT. <br />Component Name DEAVER <br />THE DEAVER FAMILY, COBBLY SURFACE, IS MODERATELY DEEP, WELL-DRAINED SOILS <br />FORMED IN RESIDUUM FROM SHALE ON UPLANDS. TYPICALLY, THE SURFACE LAYER IS <br />VERV COBBLY SILTY CLAY LOAM ABOUT 3 INCHES THICK. THE UNDERLYING LAYER IS CLAY <br />ABOUT 27 INCHES THICK AND IS UNDERLAIN BY SHALE AT A DEPTH OF 30 INCHES. <br />Component Name CHIPETA <br />THE CHIPETA FAMILY, GRAVELLY, CONSISTS OF SHALLOW AND VERY SHALLOW, WELL <br />DRAINED SOILS FORMED IN RESIDUUM FROM SHALE ON ROLLING HILLS. TYPICALLY, THE <br />SURFACE LAYER IS GRAVELLY SILTY CLAY 2 INCHES THICK. THE UNDERLYING LAYER IS <br />SILTY CLAY TO A DEPTH OF 76 INCHES. WEATHERED SHALE BEDROCK OCCURS AT 16 <br />INCHES. <br />Component Name Other soils <br />Comp % - 30 <br />Comp % - 25 <br />Comp % - 10 <br /> <br />Friday, February ll, 1005 Soil Survey information downloaded from National Soil Information System page 2 of 4 <br />(NAS/S), USDA Namra! Resources Conserva[ion Service <br />