Some pedons near basin rims have paralithic tuff at a depth 40 to 60 inches. Some pedons have loamy or gravelly layers at a depth of over 40 inches. Moist values of 3 are in the upper 3 inches in some pedons. It is clay or silty clay with a weighted average of 40 to 60 percent clay. It is neutral to moderately alkaline.
Structure is very fine or fine granular.
It is clay or silty clay but ranges to include clay loam. The structure is medium, coarse or very coarse prismatic or is prismatic parting to angular blocky. Reaction is mildly or moderately alkaline and noncalcareous to strongly calcareous with few to common fine filaments and treads of lime or gypsum in the lower part. Few 5 to 10 mm lime concretions are below a depth of 50 inches in some pedons. Brubeck, Karcal and Waspo soils are 20 to 40 inches deep to bedrock.