Slopes are 8 to 50 percent. Elevation are 3,500 to 4,500 feet. The climate is arid with cool winters and hot summers. These are the Akela , Shorim and Zalda soils. Akela soils have a loamy-skeletal control section.
Shorim soils are moderately deep and have a loamy-skeletal control section.
Zalda soils have a duripan over hard bedrock. The vegetation consists mainly of blackbrush with some ephedra, spiny menodora, and wolfberry. These soils are not extensive. Nye County, Nevada, Southwest Part, 1985. The name is coined.