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Order I Sail Surrey, New Horizon Mine <br />The Bt horizon has hue of 7,51r"R, value 5 or 6, dry, 4 or 5 moist, and chrorna of <br />4. Texture is very gravelly clay loam, very stony sandy clay loam, or very stony clay <br />loam <br />The BCk horizon has hue of I DYR or 7.5YR, value of 6, 7, or 8 dry, 4, 5, or 6 <br />moist, and chrcma of 3 or 4. It is strongly calcareous or very strongly calcareous. <br />i Texture is very stony sandy clay foam, very gravelly clay loam, or very stony clay <br />] loam. In some pedons, gravelly sandy loam, very stony clay loam, clay loam, very <br />gravelly loam, very stony clay loam, and very stony Imam strata are present, <br />COMPETING SERIES: These are the Hoot, Mirlcwood (T), Theon (T), and <br />Waucaba series. All those soils receive; mast o Il ear annuaI precipitation during the <br />winter months and receive little or no precipitation after the stammer solstice. Hoot <br />soils have loam, silt loam, clay loam, or silty clay loam textures in the particle -size <br />control section. They are neutral to mildly alkaline in the argillic horizon. Theon soils <br />are dominated by pebble sized fragments in the subsoil and are farmed in granitic <br />j parent material. They have a paralithic contact above the lithic contact. Waucaba <br />J soils are dominated by pebble and cobble sized fragments in the argillic horizon and <br />lack a BCk horizon. <br />GEOGRAPHIC SETTING: Valleycity sails occur on the marginal hogbacks and <br />ridges of the Salt Malley anticline, Burro Canyon Formation. Slopes are medium and <br />long in length and range from: 8 to 25 percent. The sails are formed in colluvium and <br />residuum and mostly from calcareous sandstones and shale. Mean annual <br />temperature is 52 to 57 degrees F and average (annual precipitation is 5 to 8 inches. <br />The freeze -free period is 15D to 170 days. <br />GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS.- These are the Farb Morue, and <br />Chipeta soils. Farb soils have a loamy particle -size control section and aack a B <br />horizon. onue soils lack bedrock above a depth of 40 inches. Chigetal soils are less <br />than 20 inches to pa.ralithic contact. <br />DRAINAGE AND PEREMABILITY: Valleyclty soils are well drained, medium <br />runoff; and moderate permeability. <br />USE AND VEGETATION: These soils are used for rangeland; wildlife habitat <br />and for recreation. Potential vegetation includes galleta, shadscaie, Indian ricegrass, <br />hlackbrush, rabbitbrush, and pricklypear. DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: <br />Southeastern Utah. The soils of this series are small in extent, 2,500 acres and are <br />confined principally to the marginal hogbacks of the Salt Malley 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 Malley. <br />National Cooperative Soil Survey <br />U.S,A, <br />Page 37 of 44 Dale: (011M <br />