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Custom Soil Resource Report <br />Rio Blanco County Area, Colorado <br />5-Badland <br />Map Unit Setting <br />Elevation: 5,200 to 7,300 feet <br />Mean annual precipitation: 8 to 18 inches <br />Mean annual air temperature: 40 to 50 degrees F <br />Frost-free period: 75 to 130 days <br />Map Unit Composition <br />Badland: 95 percent <br />Description of Badland <br />Setting <br />Landform: Canyons, ridges, hills, mountainsides <br />Down-slope shape: Concave, linear <br />Across-slope shape: Concave, linear <br />Parent material. Highly calcareous & gypsiferous residuum weathered from shale <br />Properties and qualities <br />Slope: 10 to 99 percent <br />Depth to restrictive feature: 0 to 6 inches to paralithic bedrock <br />Capacity of the most limiting layer to transmit water (Ksat): Very low to moderately <br />low (0.00 to 0.06 in/hr) <br />Available water capacity: Very low (about 0.0 inches) <br />Interpretive groups <br />Land capability (nonirrigated): 8e <br />Typical profile <br />0 to 60 inches: Weathered bedrock <br />8-Billings-Torrifluvents complex, gullied, 0 to 5 percent slopes <br />Map Unit Setting <br />Elevation: 5,100 to 5,600 feet <br />Mean annual precipitation: 7 to 9 inches <br />Mean annual air temperature: 47 to 49 degrees F <br />Frost-free period: 105 to 135 days <br />Map Unit Composition <br />Billings, gullied, and similar soils: 55 percent <br />Tordfluvents, gullied, and similar soils: 35 percent <br />Description of Billings, Gullied <br />Setting <br />Landform: Valley floors, stream terraces, flood plains <br />Landform position (three-dimensional): Talf, rise, dip <br />Down-slope shape: Linear <br />12