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• Hue: 5YR, 7.5YR or 10YR <br />Value: 4 to 6 dry, 3 through 5 moist <br />Chroma: 2 to 4 <br />Texture: loamy fine sand, sandy loam or fine sandy loam <br />BA horizon (where present) <br />Hue: 5YR or 7.5YR <br />Value: 4 to 6 dry, 4 or 5 moist <br />Chroma: 3 or 4 <br />Texture: sandy loam, sandy clay loam or fine sandy loam <br />Bt horizon <br />Hue: 5YR or 7.5YR <br />Value: 4 or 6 dry, 3 to 6 moist <br />Chroma: 3 to 6 <br />Texture: sandy clay loam, loam, sandy loam or clay loam <br />C horizon <br />Hue: 5YR or 7.5YR <br />Value: 5 to 8 dry, 5 or 6 moist <br />Chroma: 4 through 6 dry and moist <br />Fine earth fraction: sandy clay loam, loam, sandy loam or clay loam <br />COMPETING SERIES: There are no competitors in the present classification. Former <br />competitors in the previous classification (Lithic Ustollic) are the Berto, Bondman, <br />• Frontier, and Kech series. Berto soils have calcic horizons. Bondman soils have soil <br />temperatures ranging from 47 to 50 degrees F, and receive more winter moisture. <br />Frontier and Kech soils have horizons with segregated secondary carbonates. In <br />addition, Frontier soils have hue yellower than 7.5YR in the argillic horizon. <br />GEOGRAPHIC SETTING: Bond soils are on cuestas, mesas, hills, and ridges with <br />slopes ranging from 0 to 50 percent. They formed in alluvial and eolian deposits from <br />sandstone. Elevations are 5,600 to 7,000 feet. Typically, the average annual precipitation <br />is 10 to 13 inches, but ranges to 15 inches in some areas; mean annual temperature is <br />49 to 54 degrees F. The frost-free period is 110 to 160 days. In Colorado, the <br />temperature ranges as low as 43 degrees F. In Arizona elevations are as low as 4500 <br />feet, temperatures as high 55 degrees and frost free as long as 165 days. <br />GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS: These are the Apareio, Hagerman, <br />Penistaia and Skyvillage soils. Aparejo and Penistaja soils are deep. Hagerman soils <br />have lithic contact between 20 and 40 inches. Skyvillage soils do not have argillic <br />horizons. <br />DRAINAGE AND PERMEABILITY: Well drained; medium runoff; moderately <br />permeable. <br />USE AND VEGETATION: The major use of this soil is for livestock grazing. The present <br />vegetation is blue grams, sideoats grams, New Mexico feathergrass, Indian ricegrass, <br />scattered oneseed juniper, and winterfat. <br />DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: West-central New Mexico, Northern Arizona, <br />• (REVISED 9/99) 2.04.9-34 <br />