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eh <br />ESPEY, HUSTON & ASSOCIATES, INC. <br />• <br />3.1.8 Mergel Series <br />The Mergel Series consists of soils that formed in mixed glacial <br />materials. <br />Taxonomic Class: Mergel soils are loamy-skeletal, mixed Torriorthentic <br />Aaploborolls. <br />Typical Pedon: Mergel soils consist of gravelly loam in rangeland with 3 <br />to 45 percent slopes. (Colors are for dry soil unless otherwise noted.) <br />Al 0 to 10 inches; grayish brown (10YR5/2) gravelly loam, very dazk <br />grayish brown (10YR3/2) moist; moderate medium granulaz <br />structure; slightly hazd, very friable; 20 percent gravel and few <br />• cobblestones; calcazeous; moderately alkaline; cleaz smooth <br />boundary. (7 to 15 inches thick) <br />AC 10 to 16 inches; pale brown (10YR6/3) gravelly loam, brown <br />(10YR5/3) moist; weak medium and coazse subangulaz blocky <br />structure; hazd, friable; 30 percent gravel and cobblestones; cal- <br />cazeous; moderately alkaline; gradual wavy boundary. (0 to 8 <br />inches thick) <br />Clca 16 to 37 inches; very pale brown (10YR7/3) very gravelly loam, <br />brown (10YR5/3) moist; massive; hazd, friable; 60 percent gravel <br />and cobblestones; some visible secondazy calcium cazbonate <br />occurring as coatings on rock fragments; calcazeous; moderately <br />alkaline; cleaz wavy boundazy. (12 to 30 inches thick) <br />C2ca 37 to 60 inches; pale brown (10YR6/3) extremely gravelly loam, <br />brown (10YR5/3) moist; massive; slightly hazd, friable; 70 percent <br />• <br />I-21 <br />