The Shorim series consists of moderately deep to duripan, well drained soils that formed in residuum from igneous rock flows with a component of calcareous eolian material.
Shorim soils are on footslopes of hills.
Slopes are 2 to 30 percent. Shorim very gravelly sandy loam, rangeland. The soil surface is covered with 80 percent rock fragments, mainly pebbles. Soil moisture - Usually dry. The upper part of the moisture control section is moist for a very short time in late winter.