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• 35 inches thick. Depth to a seasonal high water table is estimated to be <br />about 25 inches. <br />Permeability is moderate, and the available water capacity is high. <br />Effective rooting depth is 60 inches or greater. <br />The Slocum Taxajunct soils typically have a very dark grayish brown clay <br />loam surface layer 12 inches thick, an olive brown silty clay loam subsoil <br />17 inches thick, and a dark grayish brown, dark gray and gray loam substratum <br />31 inches thick. Depth to a seasonal high water table is estimated to be <br />about 29 inches. Permeability is moderately slow, and the available water <br />capacity is high. Effective rooting depth is 60 inches or greater. Surface <br />runoff is very slow. <br />2C--Buckskin loam, 3 to 12 percent slopes. This deep, well drained soil <br />is on hillsides and benches. It formed in alluvium and residuum derived from <br />shale. Elevation is 6,800 to 8,000 feet. The average annual precipitation is <br />• 18 to 22 inches, the average annual air temperature is 37 to 40 degrees F, and <br />the frost-free season is 40 to 65 days. <br />Typically, the surface layer is grayish brown loam about 12 inches <br />thick. The upper 4 inches of the subsoil is brown sandy clay loam. The next <br />22 inches is brown silty clay. The lower 16 inches is yellow silty clay loam. <br />The substratum to a depth of 60 inches is yellowish brown clay. <br />Included in this unit are small areas of Cochetopa loam and Binco silty <br />clay loam. <br />Permeability is very slow. Effective rooting depth is 60 inches of more. <br />Available water capacity is high. Runoff is slow, and the hazard of water <br />erosion is moderate. <br />This unit us used far nonirrigated crops, livestock grazing and wildlife <br />habitat. The main nonirrigated crops are winter wheat and spring barley. <br />u <br />Ex. 16-2 <br />