The Shalet series consists of very shallow and shallow, well drained, moderately slow or slow permeable soils that formed in residuum from shale.
Shalet soils are on rolling and dissected hillsides.
Slopes are 2 to 20 percent. Depth to shale bedrock ranges from 4 to 20 inches. Pebble content ranges from 0 to 20 percent in the particle-size control section and in many areas a desert pavement of pebble covers up to 20 percent of the surface. The A horizon has hue of 5YR or 2.5YR and chroma of 4 to 6. It ranges from clay loam, loam or sandy clay loam and contains shale fragments in some pedons.