It is moderately alkaline or strongly alkaline. Cavehill, Highup, Lonjon, and Sylvaniam soils have bedrock at 20 to 40 inches. Fontreen soils lack cambic horizons and are dry in the moisture control section for 65 to 90 days following the summer solstice. Granzan soils have bedrock at 40 to 60 inches. Lizdale soils have less than 18 percent clay in the particle-size control section.
Lizzant soils are on alluvial fans, hillsides, and mountainsides.
Slopes range from 4 to 60 percent. Elevations range from as low as 5,200 in Idaho and 6,800 to 8,000 feet in Utah. They formed in alluvium or colluvium from limestone, sandstone, chert and shale. The climate is dry subhumid and the average annual precipitation is 16 to 20 inches. Mean annual air temperature ranges from 40 to 45 degrees F. Freeze-free period is 60 to 100 days.