Other features - Some pedons have C horizons below depths of 3 feet. Subangular blocky or is massive. Very gravelly or extremely gravelly loamy sand or sand. Gypsum as soft masses or filaments are common in any subhorizon. There are no competing series.
Snapp soils are on fan piedmont remnants and rock pediment remnants.
Snapp soils formed in alluvium weathered from mixed rock sources. Slopes are 2 to 30 percent. Elevations are 4,000 to 6,500. The climate is cool, semiarid with warm, dry summers and cool, moist winters. These are the Beoska , Midas , Orovada , and Theodor soils.