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GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS: These are the Farb, Monue, and Chipeta soils. Farb soils <br />have a loamy particle-size control section and lack a B horizon. Monue soils lack bedrock above a depth <br />of 40 inches. Chipeta soils are less than 20 inches to paralithic contact. <br />DRAINAGE AND PEREMABILITY: Valleycity soils are well drained, medium runoff; and moderate <br />permeability. <br />USE AND VEGETATION: These soils are used for rangeland; wildlife habitat and for recreation. <br />Potential vegetation includes galleta, shadscale, Indian ricegrass, blackbrush, rabbitbrush, and <br />pricklypear. DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Southeastern Utah. The soils of this series are small in <br />extent, 2,500 acres and are confined principally to the marginal hogbacks of the Salt Valley anticline. <br />MLRA OFFICE RESPONSIBLE: Lakewood, Colorado <br />SERIES ESTABLISHED: Grand County Utah, 1982. <br />REMARKS: Named for a ghost town near the north end of Salt Valley. National Cooperative Soil Survey <br />U.S.A. <br />WAHWEAP SERIES <br />LOCATION WAHWEAP AZ <br />Established Series <br />Rev. WJ/RCH/PDC <br />06/97 <br />The Wahweap series consists of shallow, somewhat excessively drained soils formed in eolian sands <br />and sandstone alluvium on rolling plateaus. Slopes are 0 to 16 percent. Mean annual precipitation is <br />about 7 inches and the mean annual air temperature is about 56 degrees F. <br />TAXONOMIC CLASS: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic, shallow Typic Haplocalcids <br />TYPICAL PEDON: Wahweap fine sand - rangeland. (Colors are for dry soil unless otherwise noted.) <br />A-0 to 1 inch; yellowish red (5YR 5/8) fine sand, yellowish red (5YR 4/6) moist; massive; slightly hard, <br />very friable; many very fine roots; many very fine interstitial pores; 5 percent gravel; moderately alkaline <br />(pH 8.0); abrupt smooth boundary. (1 to 3 inches thick) <br />(Revised June 2008) Attachment 2.04.9-3-42