NE WY Established Series Rev. The Kyle series consists of very deep and well drained soils formed in sediments weathered from clay shale on uplands.
Permeability is very slow.
Slopes range from 0 to 15 percent. The control section averages 60 to 65 percent clay. The soil does not have a mollic epipedon but the upper 10 inches of the solum has an average organic carbon content between 0.6 and 1.7 percent. Gypsum and other salts are below depths of 20 inches. The A horizon has hue of 10YR, 2.5Y or 5Y, value of 5 or 6 and 3 to 5 moist, and chroma of 1 to 3.