PERMFILE134933 - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Browse Search

:., .::~: ~.% -.. I • • :~~. lba Kutch-Louviera complex, 8 to 25 percent elopes. These are shallow and moderately deep well drained soils on sode:stel~ steep and hilly uplands. They formed in residual saterial weathered Eros clayey shale, The unit has a yell defined drainage patters witA deeply c~n:• narrow drainages, Shale outcrop and areas of active erosios are cosson, Elevation is 5000 to 6800 feet, Average annual precipitatios is 14 to 19 iachea, Average annual air tesperature Sa about 4yo f'. Average frost free period is about 120 to 140 days, Kutch soils ass nbout 40 percent of Lhe cosplex and occur on side slopes and wider ridge tops. Couriers soils are about 90 percent of the cosplez and are usually on slope t¢'eaka, narrow ridge tops and knobs but say occur slsost ar~whers in the unit, Included in mapping are small areas of Cushman sandy loan, Terry sandy loos, Funn clay loam, Renohill clay loss, Bresser sandy loan, and shale outcrop, Kutch soils typically have a grayish brown clay loam surface layer about ~ inches thick, The subsoil is brown or light olive gray cl~ about 18 inches thick, The substratia is gray clay with many weathered shale frapenta, It is underlain by gray and olive clay shale at 20 to 40 inoh•s below the surface. Perseability is slow, Effective rooting depth is 20 to 40 inches. Available water capacity is sedluA, Surface runoff is rapid and erosion hazard is high, Louviera soils typically here a grayish or olive brown clay aurfaoe_lsrr about 8 inghee thick, The subsoil is light brownish gray clay containins sane small-frag~enta of weathered shale, It is underlain by gray or olive clay shale at 10 to 20 inches below the surface, Perseability is very slow,. Effective rooting depth is 10 to 20 inches. Available caster capacity L lox, Surfax runoff is very rapid and eroelos yard is very high, (Alsoat all of this unit Ss in native pasture, Special care is needed to J plan season and length of ti:e for grazing. A few open clay sines are Touted on this unit, ~Plalna wildlife utilise these Boils but food production is lox, Sane cover is mailable in break arena and narrow drainages, (Strong slopes, slow pez~eability, high shrink-swell; lox bearing etresath, shallow depth to shale, high corroaivity and very high erosion hasasd cause ~ s aevetelLitation far soot m-ban uses. `. • ~„.. ~. ..