These soils are on shoulders and backslopes of foothills. Slopes are 3 to 70 percent. These soils are dry for more than half the time when the soil temperature is greater than 41 degrees F. Depth to bedrock ranges from 10 to 20 inches. The mollic epipedon is 7 to 11 inches thick. The particle-size control section contains 5 to 15 percent clay and 35 to 60 percent rock fragments by weighted average.
Reaction is neutral or slightly alkaline throughout.
The A horizon has value of 4 or 5 dry, and chroma of 2 or 3 dry or moist. It is sandy loam or coarse sandy loam and is very gravelly or very cobbly. It is 25 to 45 percent pebbles and 5 to 20 percent cobbles, and 0 to 5 percent stones and boulders. These are the Aldax , Bakeoven , Bodell , Handap, Johntom , Lickskillet , Limekiln , Plaskett , Rockly , and Venator soils. Aldax, Bodell, Johntom, Limekiln, Rockly, and Venator soils have a xeric moisture regime.