Mean annual temperature is 50 degrees F. and mean annual precipitation is about 7 inches. Haar gravelly loam, rangeland. Root mats are in the fractures. These soils are usually dry. They are moist from late fall to early spring.
Most fragments slake in water or crush easily when wet.
Depth to paralithic contact - 4 to l0 inches. Neutral through moderately alkaline. These are the Budihol , Nicanor , Porterfield and Tuffo series. Budihol soils have l5 to 35 percent hard pebbles in the particle-size control section and have hard bedrock at a depth of 20 to 30 inches. Nicanor soils have a lithic contact at a depth of 20 to 40 inches and a control section with l8 to 27 percent clay and l5 to 35 percent hard pebbles.