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eh ESPEY, HUSTON &ASSOCIATES, INC. <br />• <br />Typical Pedon: Rentsac soils consist of channery sandy loam with 5 to <br />50 percent slopes. <br />AI 0 to 5 inches; grayish brown (10YR5/2) channery sandy loam, dazk <br />brown (10YR3/3) moist; weak, very fine granular structure; soft, <br />very friable, nonsticky and nonplastic; 25 percent sandstone <br />channery; common very fine and fine roots; slightlq effervescent, <br />moderately alkaline; cleaz, smooth boundary. (3 to 6 inches thick) <br />Ac 5 to 9 inches; brown (10YR5/3) very channery sandy loam, brown <br />(10YR4/3) moist; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky and non- <br />plastic; 50 percent sandstone channery and 10 percent flags; <br />common very fine to coazse roots; strongly effervescent, <br />moderately alkaline; gradual smooth boundary. (3 to 6 inches <br />thick) <br />• <br />C1 9 to 16 inches; very pale brown (10YR7/3) very flaggy sandy loam, <br />light yellowish brown (10YR6/4) moist; structureless; soft, very <br />friable, nonsticky and nonplastic; 80 percent sandstone channery <br />and flags diameter from 2 to 10 inches and 1 to 2 inches thick; <br />common fine to coazse roots spreading laterally; strongly effer- <br />vescent, moderately alkaline; cleaz wavy boundary. (5 to 8 inches <br />thick) <br />R 16 inches; hard sandstone. <br />Type Location: These soils aze located in the NES+ of NEST of section 10, <br />T.25., R.99w, in Montana. <br />Range in Characteristics: Rock fragments in the A horizon ranges from <br />20 to 40 percent, most of which are less than 3 inches long. The depth to <br />• <br />1-31 <br />