These soils are on hills, mountains and plateau side slopes. Slopes are 8 to 50 percent. Mean annual temperature is about 51 degrees F., mean annual precipitation is about 8 inches. Rowel very cobbly sandy loam, rangeland. Soil moisture - Moist in winter and spring, dry in summer and fall except for l0 to 20 days cumulative between July and October due to convection storms.
Cobbles predominate in most pedons.
Depth to bedrock - l0 to l4 inches. Reaction - Neutral to mildly alkaline. These are the Atlow , Checkett , Gabbvally , Hooplite , Nansus Olac , Old Camp , Phliss , Soughe , Sriada, Stewval and Thike soils. These soils all have a B horizon with a clay content of less than 35 percent. Phliss soils have secondary carbonates in the lower Bt horizon.