Reaction is slightly through strongly alkaline. Some pedons have a light gravel lag on the surface. Texture is loam, silt loam, clay loam, silty clay loam, and gravelly clay loam. A Bw or AC horizon, when present, has the combined properties of the A and C horizons. It is loam, clay loam or silty clay loam.
Reaction is slightly through strongly alkaline.
Canyon soils are somewhat excessively drained. Dulce, Tassel, and Taluce soils have less than 18 percent clay in the particle size control section. Epping soils have siltstone chips in the control section and contain a significant amount of glass shards. Eslendo, Quarteles and Sandoval soils are dry in May and June. Gerst soils have 15 to 35 percent coarse fragments throughout.